Biography, Autobiography & Life Writing

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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
From The Rice Chest From: Three Funerals for my Father View twp	This chapter is told from the author’s perspective. She recalls going back to her childhood home with her daughters.	Jolie Phuong Hoang	4	2021	$0.40 Add
From The Right to Have Rights From: On Love and Tyranny View House of Anansi Press	In this chapter, Heberlein examines Arendt’s writings on human worth and dignity.	Ann Heberlein	5	2021	$0.50 Add
From NEW! The Rise of Jagmeet Singh: 2017 From: From Layton to Singh View James Lorimer and Company	Chapter 6 focuses on the rise of Jagmeet Singh and his victory in the NDP leadership race in 2017. The chapter covers topics including a brief history of Singh’s early life and political …	Matt Fodor	20	2022	$2.00 Add
From NEW! The Rising of the Women From: Still Hopeful View ECW Press	In Chapter Two Barlow reflects on the three interrelated but distinct stages of her own social justice journey from first working within the women’s movement with Canada, the international …	Maude Barlow	33	2022	$3.30 Add
From The Road Ahead From: Holocaust to Resistance View Fernwood Publishing	Holocaust to Resistance, My Journey is a powerful, awe-inspiring memoir from author and activist Suzanne Berliner Weiss. Born to Jewish parents in Paris in 1941, Suzanne was hidden from the Nazis …	Suzanne Berliner Weiss	3	2019	$0.30 Add
From The Role of Women in the 1956 Revolution From: The 1956 Hungarian Revolution View University of Ottawa Press	This paper attempts to characterize the role of women during the 1956 revolution on the basis of photographic records of key moments and events during the revolution, as well as a review of …	Mária Palasik	22	2010	$2.86 Add
From The Rooster From: Three Funerals for my Father View twp	This chapter is told from the author’s perspective. She speaks about her mother and their relationship.	Jolie Phuong Hoang	3	2021	$0.30 Add
From The Roundup Part 3: The Circuit From: This is My Real Name View Arsenal Pulp Press	Chapter 8 recounts Brunet’s time at the FoxxDen club. Topics discussed aging as a stripper, clients in Ottawa, and seeing your high school classmates as a stripper.	Cid V Brunet	9	2021	$0.90 Add
From The Royal Part 1: Baby Stripper From: This is My Real Name View Arsenal Pulp Press	Chapter 1 recounts the author Cid V Brunet’s first time at the Royal (a strip club in Southern Ontario) and her early career there. Topics discussed include management, names, femininity, sex …	Cid V Brunet	9	2021	$0.90 Add
From NEW! The Scoop on Sensational Stories From: The Trauma Beat View ECW Press	In this chapter, Cherry discusses the sensationalizing of "uncommon stories", how the boundary-less reporting of these a-typical events traumatically impacts the surviving family …	Tamara Cherry	12	2023	$1.20 Add
From Preface Speech at the Funeral of Arthur Manuel From: The Reconciliation Manifesto View James Lorimer and Company	Activist Naomi Klein offers an assessment of the importance of the life and work of Arthur Manuel, including his involvement in protesting pipeline construction in the months leading up to his death.	Naomi Klein	5	2017	$0.50 Add
From NEW! The Secret From: Inside the Montreal Mafia View ECW Press	This chapter explores the initiation rite and history of the relationship between the Italian mafia and the Hell’s Angels in Montreal.	Eric Thibault; Félix Séguin	15	2022	$1.50 Add
The Seed Infertility Is a Feminist Issue Coach House Books	Notes on desire, reproduction, and grief, and how feminism doesn’t support women struggling to have children. In pop culture as much as in policy advocacy, the feminist movement has …	Alexandra Kimball	145	2019	View
From the seven sacred ways of healing From: The Care We Dream Of View Arsenal Pulp Press	The author begins the chapter with poetry and continues with their experience returning to their estranged relatives and indigenous community in a women-led healing ceremony.	jaye simpson	5	2021	$0.50 Add
From NEW! The Siege of Ohén:ton Karihwatéhkwen From: When the Pine Needles Fall View Between The Lines	In Chapter Three Katsi’tsakwas Ellen Gabriel recalls the events of the Mohawk Crisis in 1990.	Audra Simpson; Katsi’tsakwas Ellen Gabriel; Pamela Palmater; Sean Carleton	32	2024	$3.20 Add
From NEW! The Signalman’s Son From: My Mother, My Translator View Véhicule Press	A poem about hearing.	Jaspreet Singh	3	2021	$0.30 Add