Bread and Roses

Description

154 pages
$12.95
ISBN 1-895387-68-X
DDC 305.42'0971

Year

1996

Contributor

Reviewed by Pauline Carey

Pauline Carey is the author of Magic and What’s in a Name?

Review

In 1986, Dorothy Inglis, feminist, social worker, and trade union
sympathizer, began an eight-year stint as the Bread and Roses columnist
for the St. John’s Evening Telegram. She took on the assignment with
the understanding that it could be “an unabashedly feminist column ...
addressed to both men and women.”

Organized by theme, this selection of Inglis’s columns addresses a
wide range of social justice issues. Inglis, a lively writer with a dry
sense of humor and a sometimes scathing wit, reveals a clear socialist
bias in her treatment of such topics as pay equity, capital gains,
children’s rights, the Persons Case, thalidomide, midwives in Ontario,
and lending banks in Bangladesh. An index would have been helpful.

Citation

Inglis, Dorothy., “Bread and Roses,” Canadian Book Review Annual Online, accessed December 1, 2024, https://cbra.library.utoronto.ca/items/show/1965.