Twist and Shout: A Decade of Feminist Writing in This Magazine

Kelly L. Green is a freelance writer living in Ajax, Ontario.

What a rollicking, rambling, challenging, entertaining, educating
anthology this is! Susan Crean and her colleagues have selected an
astonishing array of good journalism, good writing, and good thought to
tantalize, inform, and even irritate intelligent readers. From feature
articles by the likes of Margaret Atwood (who compares Canadian and
Scottish experiences of nationalism, socialism, and feminism) to the
introspective questioning of a technology researcher reconsidering the
impact of her own work on the lives of women, this book amazes, engages,
and enrages.

Perhaps the most valuable aspect of this anthology is its ability to
demonstrate to women and men the plurality of the feminist voice. No one
point of view, no one vision prevails. Writers express themselves in
terms of joyous freedom or struggle to make themselves heard in the face
of overwhelming oppression. They feel free to contradict each other, and
even themselves. They write in deadly earnest, and they write for fun,
playing with words and with ideas.

A wonderful illustration of the freeing quality of feminist thought at
its best, Twist and Shout is a fine Canadian contribution to world
feminist literature.