Bread and Roses

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

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.