Sono Nis Press - Books by Subject: Women's Studies


		Just Ask Us A Conversation with First Nations Teenage Moms Teen moms are nothing new. For as long as anyone can remember, families, communities, and governments have been grappling with the poverty and lack of life opportunities faced by these parents and their children. Just Ask Us takes a comprehensive, first-hand look at First Nations teen mothers, offering ways to counteract the intractable cycle of poverty and turn reserve communities into places of hope for the next generation. Olsen explores issues of teenage sexuality and relationships, birth control, abortion, and violence. She examines aboriginal and non-aboriginal cultural attitudes and practices and how they affect the lives of young moms and their children. Her book weaves the threads of these young mothers' lives together with colours of desperation, enthusiasm, impossibility, and hope. FIRST NATIONS NON-FICTION • 160 pp • 6 x 9 ISBN 1-55039-152-6 • paper • $19.95

		By Snowshoe, Buckboard & Steamer Women of the Frontier Kathryn Bridge Winner of the 1998 Lieutenant-Governor's Medal for Historical Writing! Florence Agassiz, Eleanor Fellows, Violet Sillitoe and Helen Kate Woods lived and travelled in British Columbia very much as a minority . . . white and female. Historian-archivist Kathryn Bridge tells the story of each of these pioneering women, first through their writings and then within the historical context of the time. History/Women's Studies, 231pp, 6×9, over 70 b/w images ISBN 1-55039-086-4, paper, $19.95

		Henry & Self The Private Life of Sarah Crease 1826-1922 Kathryn Bridge Sarah Crease was an extraordinary Englishwoman whose long life and marriage encompassed both privilege and hardship, scandal and accolade, in the old world and the new colonies of Vancouver's Island and British Columbia. Kathryn Bridge's thoroughly researched biography includes extracts from Crease's letters and diaries, and an annotated edition of Crease's 1880 journal that records her travels with her husband. Lavishly illustrated with both archival photographs and Crease's own drawings and paintings. Biography/Women's Studies, 216pp, 6×9, over 80 b/w and colour images ISBN 1-55039-071-6, paper, $21.95

		Gilean Douglas Writing Nature, Finding Home Andrea Lebowitz and Jill Milton This book is at once a collection of some of the best writings of Gilean Douglas and a fascinating biography. Included are texts never before published, along with some of the best writing from each phase of her career as poet, nature writer, and journalist. Abundantly illustrated with Douglas's own photographs. Biography/Women's Studies, 227 pp, 6 x 9, 170+ b/w photos/illustrations by Gilean Douglas ISBN 1-55039-096-1, paper, $21.95

		A Woman of Influence Evlyn Fenwick Farris Sylvie McClean A remarkable biography of the founder of the University Women's Club of Vancouver, a major force in the establishment and development of UBC, and a key player in the election of the first Liberal government of British Columbia. An important addition to the history of BC, Canadian women, education and the social fabric of the country in the first half of this century. Women's Studies/History, 280 pp, 6 x 9, photos ISBN 1-55039-074-0, paper, $22.95

		Threshold edited by Rona Murray works by Barbara Colebrook Peace, Dorothy Field, Alisa Gordaneer, Kelly Parsons, Suzanne Steele, and Susan Stenson Rona Murray, one of Canada's most treasured writers, has gathered the poems of six vibrant female poets, each on the threshold of her professional literary career. Open this book at any page and you will find a poem worth reading. Poetry, 148 pp, 6 × 9 ISBN 1-55039-092-9, paper, $14.95

		You're on the Air Sallie Phillips A freelance broadcaster and pioneering career woman in the late 1940s and early 1950s, Sallie Phillips broadcast over the CBC and most of Vancouver's other radio stations. You're on the Air is a selection of her radio scripts, a charming and fascinating record of life in Canada, and specifically British Columbia, at mid-century. Sallie's voice is just as engaging on the page as it once was over the airwaves. Each script offers a privileged glimpse of a time and place that is strikingly different from—and occasionally surprisingly similar to—our own. Regional History/Women's Studies, 214 pp, 6 x 9 ISBN 1-55039-104-6, paper, $21.95

		The Broad Canvas Portraits of Women by Women Linda Rogers with photos by Barbara Pedrick This richly illustrated book follows the stories of thirty women as they overcome pain, politics, and prejudice to sing, dance, act, write, and paint toward the new millennium. Every story of these mothers of artistic freedom is at once intimate and inspirational. Like Renaissance murals full of contemporary faces, this is a broad canvas of familiar heads talking. Art/Biography/Women's Studies, 176 pp, 9 x 8, 50+ b/w and colour photos and art reproductions ISBN 1-55039-097-X, paper, $24.95