sunnybrook bellydancer perspective confinement

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14 reviews
Taste This (Performance Group), Ivan Coyote, ...

Press Gang Publishers, 1998

Absolutely a favorite!!
This book is brilliant! For me at least it was like coming home. The stories are diverse, spectacular literary snapshots of life in the shadowlands of gender. It was confirmation and a challenge and I just can't recommend it enough.

Sunnybrook: A True Story with Lies

1 review
Persimmon Blackbridge

Raincoast Books, Press Gang Publishers, 1996

Character Studies wih True Insight
This book is a study in character. It is about the struggle of people who have difficulty dealing with reality. This in its own way is true for every one of us. The book succeeds in showing the humanity in everyone even those who have been ostracized by society. The book flaws stem from the anger that the author genuinely feels with the people who are charged with providing care for the ...

Daughters of Copper Woman

14 reviews
Anne Cameron

Press Gang Publishers, 1988

Simply wonderful!!!
A great book, it has more than just mythology. The stories show how we are all one people of different tribes.

Drawing the Line: Lesbian Sexual Politics on the Wall
Susan Stewart

Press Gang Publishers, 1991

Cereus Blooms at Night

14 reviews
Shani Mootoo

Press Gang Publishers, 1996

A Soul With Butterfly Wings
This book was one of the few out of the many that I've read that is truly charming and exquisite. Mootoo's bravery and unabashed honesty were among just a few of the admirable qualities of this book. I had trouble putting it down at night, even when I had to be up in a few short hours. The characters are crystal-clear and the environment she paints is inspiring to anyone who wishes to write a ...

I Am Woman: A Native Perspective on Sociology and Feminism

2 reviews
Lee Maracle

Raincoast Books, Press Gang Publishers, 2002

Sovereignty and Native Women
This is one of the few books I've found that really explores the issues of sovereignty and native women together. Maracle really explains the connection between women's integrity and wholeness and tribal self-determination. She also looks at issues of domestic violence, rape, and sexual assault from a uniquely native perspective. I would recommend this book to all women of native descent.

Ravensong: A Novel

4 reviews
Lee Maracle

Raincoast Books, Press Gang Publishers, 2002

Wonderfully written, a fabulous book about coming of age.
Set in the 1950's, Ravensong is a story of a girl trying to find her place in the world. It is a difficult task as she is divided between the white society that educates her and her own native village. Stacey, the heroine, feels the changes of approching adulthood as she finishes her last year of high school and prepares to attend university. She struggles with a major epidemic in her ...

Where the Rivers Join: A Personal Account of Healing from Ritual Abuse

5 reviews
Beckylane

Press Gang Publishers, 1995

A wonderful book
Beckylane is a gifted writer, as well as very insightful, and that enables her to convey her story of recovery unusually well. She can make piercingly clear, in a few well-chosen words, concepts I have struggled to express, both in talking about her feelings as a child and in describing her path to recovery. Because details of abuse are interwoven with accounts of her growing strength as ...

Her Tongue on My Theory: Images, Essays and Fantasies
Susan Stewart, Persimmon Blackbridge, ...

Raincoast Books, Press Gang Publishers, 2002

Out on Main Street & Other Stories

1 review
Shani Mootoo

Press Gang Publishers, 1993

India, Trindidad, Canada, Feminist, Lesbian short vignettes
First read Shani Mootoo's novel, Cereus Blooms at Night. Then, come back to these short stories to learn more about her. Find phrases like: "She so fem, she redundant". Shani is not that. And you will not find men painted in a pretty light. Very similar to The Bean Tree in that respect. I rate this book highly, however, for her account of the inner thoughts of a couple in an abusive ...

Fire Power

2 reviews
Chrystos

Press Gang Publishers, 1995

Undiluted and Delicious
This book is funny, sharp, and coursely textured. Chrystos' voice is strong enough to engage every subject with an intensity that is hard to resist. Her love poetry sweats off the page with a passionate, blushing intimacy. Her political poems reveal the absurbly enormous gap between rich and poor, racisim that has become so ingrained it hurts to realize it, and the artiface of cities, ...

Unruly Women: The Politics of Confinement and Resistance
Karlene Faith

Press Gang Publishers, 1993

Love Ruins Everything

10 reviews
Karen X. Tulchinsky

Raincoast Books, Press Gang Publishers, 2002

And How!
A great book for young and old dykes and the people who love them. Toulchinsky is a master at original dialogue. This book is a quick, funny, real read. I highly recommend it!

In Her I Am

1 review
Chrystos

Press Gang Publishers, 1993

Oooh la la!
My first day on the net ... I didn't just dip my toe in ... I posted a few Chrystos lines from this book and received some mighty powerful responses. This collection is not just erotic poetry ... it is the butch/femme dance done with lust, grace, joy ... a pleasure to behold and even more of a pleasure to share. This book was my first gift to my new love and ahhhh, what a dance it inspired. ...

When Fox Is a Thousand

4 reviews
Larissa Lai

Press Gang Publishers, 1995

A well-written journey into other dimensions and Vancouver
This must one of the most remarkable and readable magical-realism books ever written in English. In her part-mystery, part-historical novel, part- fantasy, Ms Lai manages to lead us in and out of different dimensions without the slightest degree of confusion. I was never a fan of this genre but have become entranced with this skilfully and delightfully-written work, which uses fantasy to ...

Sojourners and Sundogs: First Nations Fiction
Lee Maracle

Raincoast Books, Press Gang Publishers, 2002

Here is a new combined edition of Lee Maracle's best-loved works of fiction. True to the principles of First Nations oratory, the novel (Sundogs) and short stories (Sojourner's Truth and Other Stories) in this volume are layered with unresolved human dilemmas. Maracle writes with love and humor, whether she's telling the tragic story of a boy's attempt to escape residential school or offering an intimate look at one family's struggle during the ...

Bellydancer: Stories

1 review
Sky Lee

Press Gang Publishers, 1994

Tough-talking, gritty women and men
Reviewer Rita Wong says in Kinesis, "The trilogy of Bellydancer stories presents us with tough-talking, gritty women and men, who know poverty, tragedy and survival first hand. Women who, as one character states, 'are not supposed to live long enough to tell our stories.' The trilogy converges around the mesmerizing figure of Seni, and leads us to revisit 'Pompeii,' a story told by a woman named ...

Not Vanishing

1 review
Chrystos

Press Gang Publishers, 1989

A powerful and passionate work of art.
Native American poet Chrystos was born in 1946 in San Francisco and is part of a group classified by the Federal Government as "urban indians." Remarkably self-educated and a brilliant artist as well as a writer, Chrystos, in Not Vanishing, sets out to dispel the common stereotypes, myths, and misconceptions that are associated with Native people as well as to educate her readers on how issues ...

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