ST@NZ@ League's Electronic Newsletter

Newsletter for December 2008

NEWS FROM THE FEMINIST CAUCUS
By Anne Burke, Chair. Subject: Call for Submissions: Capturing our History: Feminisms in Canada and Quebec, 1960-2010/Retracer notre histoire: le mouvement féministe au Canada et au Québec, 1960 à 2010.
 
The project: To publish a series of books - one per year beginning in 2010 - that depict the richness and diversity of feminist activity in Canada and Quebec between 1960 and 2010. They will be written by different authors and may include autobiographies, biographies, single- and multi-themed volumes, edited collections, plays, novels, etc. The complexities of gender, race, class, geography, culture, dis/ability, language, sexual identity and age are central to the project. For full repor click here.

MANITOBA REPORT
By Lori Cayer. Winter in Manitoba is off to a strange start this year, more like the way I imagine winters farther east or west of here. The snow was sudden and wet and treacherous, then it suddenly mostly melted and what didn’t melt refroze to a bumpy candy coating. So Winnipeg is kind of a moonscape with no snow to speak of since, and it’s now the end of November when we’re usually pretty tucked in with the white stuff. All these dry roads and mild temperatures have been making it easy for poets and poetry lovers to get out of the house and see what each other has been up to. For full report click here.