Inanna Publications & Education Inc

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Celebrating Over 42 Years of Smart books for Feminist Publishing people who want Inanna Publications & Education Inc. is one of only a very few independent feminist presses in Canada committed to publishing fiction, poetry, and cre- to read and think ative non-fiction by and about women, and complementing this with relevant about real non-fiction. Inanna’s list fosters new, innovative and diverse perspectives with the potential to change and enhance women’s lives everywhere. Our aim is women’s lives. to conserve a publishing space dedicated to feminist voices that provoke discussion, advance feminist thought, and speak to diverse lives of women. Founded in 1978, and housed at York University since 1984, Inanna is the proud publisher of one of Canada’s oldest feminist journals, Canadian Wom- an Studies/les cahiers de la femme. Our priority is to publish literary books, particularly by fresh, new Canadi- an voices, that are intellectually rigorous, speak to women’s hearts, and tell truths about the vital lives of a broad diversity of women—smart books for people who want to read and think about real women’s lives. Inanna books are important resources, widely used in university courses across the country. Our books are essential for any curriculum and are indispensable Fall 2020 resources for the feminist reader.

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THE NARROWS OF FEAR (WAPAWIKOSCIKANIK) a novel by carol rose goldeneagle

The Narrows of Fear (Wapawikoscikanik) navigates the unsettling, but necessary. When love of, and respect for, culture goes awry, it is Indigenous women who bring us back to what is important.

This novel is an interweaving of stories centred on a range of characters, both male and female, though the women, for the most part, are the healers. Though several were abused both in their own community and in residential schools, these women are smart and loving and committed to helping one another. They eagerly learn to celebrate their culture, its stories, its dancing, its drums, and its elders. Principal of these elders is Nina, the advisor at the women’s shelter. With the help of Sandy and Charlene, both of whom are educated and courageous, overcoming losses of their own, Nina uses Indigenous practices to heal the traumatized Mary Ann.

Indigenous women have always been at the core of healing and leading and learning. Yet, Indigenous women face the same patriarchal standards as women across the globe. It is 978-1-77133-789-2 time to reclaim Indigenous spaces for women: in ceremonies, protocols, and life in general. $22.95 cdn 5.5" x 8.25" pb, 260 pages fiction / september 2020 This is a very powerful novel—sometimes brutally violent, sometimes healing, sometimes mythical, and always deeply respectful of the Aboriginal culture at its heart.

Carol Rose GoldenEagle is Cree and Dene with Carol Rose GoldenEagle is an award-winning Cree/Dene author; three of her books roots in Sandy Bay, northern Saskatchewan. She have won or been recognized for awards. is an award-winning published novelist, poet, playwright, visual artist, and musician. Her works has previously been published using the surname, praise for carol rose goldeneagle’s (formely daniels) earlier work: Daniels. She now chooses to use her traditional “Bearskin Diary effortlessly flowes from sexy to thrilling, spiritual to humorous, name. She is the author of the award-winning novel and is an exciting addition to the canon of contemporary Indigenous literature in Bearskin Diary (2015) and the recently published Canada.” Bone Black (2019). Her debut poetry volume, Hira- —Kenneth T. William, playwright/author of Café Daughter, Thunderstick, and eth, was published in 2018 and was shortlisted for Gordon Winter the 2019 Saskatchewan Book Awards. As a visual artist, her work has been exhibited in art galleries “Bone Black is a spirited story of a Cree woman’s compelling journey through trauma, across Saskatchewan and Northern Canada. As grief, and ultimately vengeance. Carol GoldenEagle’s stirring prose carefully and a musician, a CD of women’s drum songs, in passionately explores the resilience and strength of Indigenous women in the face which Carol is featured, was recently nominated of violence and the ongoing impacts of colonialism. One woman’s path to healing for a Prairie Music Award. Before pursuing her art takes her through the tension in the modern Prairies before taking a dark turn in on a full-time basis, Carol worked as a journalist an unexpected yet gripping twist. It’s a thrilling foray into personal justice.” for more than 30 years in television and radio at —Waubgeshig Rice, author of Moon of the Crusted Snow APTN, CTV, and CBC. She lives in Regina Beach, Saskatchewan.

Promotional Plans • Toronto, Saskatoon, Regina, Vancouver and Victoria launches/readings • Promotional bookmarks • Review copy mailing / submissions to reading series • Ads in trade and literary magazines INANNA POETRY AND FICTION SERIES 3

THE RAGE ROOM a novel by lisa de nikolits

What if you made the worst mistake of your life and got the chance to fix it? Only you made it so much worse? From the incomparable crafter of nine cross-genre works of fiction, Lisa de Nikolits expands her horizons to pen a grab-you-by-the-throat, feminist speculative-fiction thriller in the style of Groundhog Day meets The Matrix.

The perfect father kills his family on Christmas Eve, and tries to undo his actions by jumping back in time. The result is murder and mayhem in dystopia. Set in 2055, the world is run by robots and virtual data, while the weather is controlled by satellite dishes. Arts and culture are no more than distant memories. People are angry, placated by prescribed visits to rage rooms to vent their boredom, fury, and discontent. Beneath the sunny skies and behind the garbage-free suburban McMansions live deeply disturbed, materialistic families.

During his time travels and increasingly desperate attempts to reverse his colossal mistake, Sharps Barkley meets the leader of the Eden Collective, a feminist army determined to save the Earth by removing all artificial intelligence and letting the Earth restore itself—if 978-1-77133-777-9 necessary, at the expense of mankind. The Eden Collective uses data gathered from the rage $22.95 cdn 5.5" x 8.25" pb, 300 pages rooms to analyze and predict the potential and actions needed for the Earth to reset and fiction / september 2020 they need to prove that time travel is an effective tool. If Sharps can go back and save his children, then there is hope for the future. Sharps is the 49th experiment and his success is pivotal. Can love prevail over anger?

The Rage Room has a multi-layered plot that is fueled by a feminist-driven courage to take Originally from South Africa, Lisa de charge and save the world as it exposes the effects of an increasingly digital age on our lives Nikolits is an award-winning author and, ultimately, our humanity. whose work has appeared on recom- mended reading lists for both Open This is a perfectly-timed, trending novel in terms of technology, societal and sociological Book Toronto and the 49th Shelf, as themes, romantic, familial, and platonic relationships, world angst, concerns about climate well as being chosen as a Chatelaine change, the future of our children, education, and arts entertainment. Editor’s Pick and a Canadian Living Magazine Must Read. She has pub- “In her latest captivating book, Lisa de Nikolits proffers not only a roller coaster of enter- lished nine novels that most recently tainment, but also, sharp political commentary in complicated times. The Rage Room is an include: No Fury Like That (published intricately woven dystopian world, rich in strong female characters who easily whisk readers in Italian under the title Una furia to a world of futuristic follies. Move over George Orwell—De Nikolits shows us how the dell’altro mondo); Rotten Peaches and future can be scary, exciting, and above all, female.” The Occult Persusasion and the Anar- —Kelly S. Thompson, national bestselling author of Girls Need Not Apply: Field Notes chist’s Solution. Lisa lives and writes in from the Forces Toronto and is a member of the Sisters in Crime, Toronto Chapter; Sisters in Crime; Mesdames of Mayhem; and The International Thriller Writers.

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DANCING WITH CHAIRS IN THE MUSIC HOUSE a novel by caro soles

Dancing With Chairs in the Music House takes place in 1949 in a Victorian mansion at 519 Jarvis Street. Once the home of the Massey family, it is now a genteel but somewhat rundown rooming house owned by a reclusive pianist who gives master classes to talented students. Ten-year-old Vanessa lives in two rooms on the second floor with her invalid father, who was gassed during World War I, her mother, and her big brother, one of the landlady’s piano students.

Despite the family’s much-reduced circumstances, Vanessa’s small world is ruled by a strict code of ladylike behaviour laid down by her parents, which she occasionally questions but tries to abide by. When she is told by the doctor that she might go blind at any moment, she is not allowed to attend school. Instead, she wanders the dim corridors of the old house, silently listening and watching the odd characters living there, trying to make sense of what she sees but interacting with almost no one.

Everything changes when she becomes fascinated by a mother and son who move into a room 978-1-77133-805-9 on the third floor. She eventually agrees to take secret notes from the son to his mysterious $22.95 cdn friend at her church, until she sees something disturbing and tragedy strikes her world. 5.5" x 8.25" pb, 260 pages fiction / september 2020 The ten-year-old protagonist, Vanessa, tells her story in a unique voice, painting a vivid picture of 1940s Toronto, and nostalgia for a long vanished way of life.

Caro Soles’s novels include mysteries, erotica, gay lit, science fiction and the occasional bit of dark fantasy. Her most recent publications include: The Memory Dance; Do You Know Me? and A Friend of Mr. Nijinksky. She received the Derrick Murdoch Award from the Crime Writers of Canada, and has been short-listed for the Lambda Literary Award, the Aurora Award, and the Stoker Award. She was the founder of Bloody Words, the Canadian mystery convention that ran for fourteen years. Caro lives in Toronto, loves dachshunds, books, opera, and ballet, not necessarily in that order.

Promotional Plans • Toronto, London, and Stratford launches/readings • Promotional bookmarks • Review copy mailing / submissions to reading series • Ads in trade and literary magazines INANNA POETRY AND FICTION SERIES 5

PAPER STONES a novel by laurie ray hill

From the moment she holds her baby niece, Rose is on a mission. Terrified that her baby niece will fall victim to the sexual abuse rampant in the family, Rose tells us in her own warm, funny, down-to-earth voice, how she reluctantly agrees to join a therapy group, hoping she can find out how to prevent disaster and see that baby Jenny grows up unharmed.

In the group, Rose meets Patricia, the group leader, and new friends who will become like family: Josie, who “sees” the future; Tammy, with a suspicious bruise on her neck; good and steady Marg, whose father is threatening to burn down her apartment house; and sweet, grieving, spiritual Sally. Rose’s own chronic problem, she confesses, is picking wrong men. Josie finds a small magazine picture of a little town in northern Ontario. She sees, with her second sight, a resort hotel to be built in this town and a sunnier life for the group. As they begin to take the first painful steps of emotional recovery, an intense fantasy about this unknown town and dream hotel becomes the secret life of the group.

As Rose learns about herself and begins to recover, she is able to develop discernment about 978-1-77133-785-4 relationships, and recognizes solid value, kindness and respect in her new boyfriend, Dave. $22.95 cdn 5.5" x 8.25" pb, 350 pages They struggle to protect Rose’s little niece Jenny, working against the denial of Jenny’s own fiction / september 2020 mother. Deep friendships evolve as the women help one another through the roller coasters of their recovery process. They rescue Tammy and her children from a violent husband in a high speed winter car chase. They rush Josie to hospital every time her boyfriend beats her up. On a visit to Dave’s northern relatives, Rose finds the actual town of Josie’s picture. She is on fire to tell her friends. But, before she can do that, fantasies of a better life slam to a dead Laurie Ray Hill is an award-winning standstill when Josie is beaten nearly to death, and little Jenny is abused. playwright and debut novelist. Her plays include: Making Music (Best After a series of setbacks, clinging to their dreams, the group members manage to move to Original Script, Eastern Ontario their town and, eventually, to pursue their hotel scheme. It seems that their luck is changing Drama League Award), Wrack & for the better. Jenny begins to heal. But Rose’s father follows them and little Jenny is dragged Rescue (finalist, Canadian National again into a dark situation. Playwriting Competition), and most recently, Marcie’s Brain . Her day job Finally, when Rose’s abusive father is brought to trial, it comes to light that Patricia, the is in Vision Loss Rehabilitation, sup- group leader herself, was also a victim, long ago, of this same abuser. After the trial, with a porting people with vision loss to grasp strong push from Rose, Patricia begins to swallow her own medicine and finally to get some and to navigate their worlds. She lives therapy for herself. with her husband in rural Ontario, in Brighton, and enjoys nature, lots Paper Stones is told in voice of Rose, using the common vernacular of rural Ontario. Funny, of family, close-knit community, and vivid, down-to-earth and friendly, Rose’s warm humour engages the reader and keeps the seeking the other kind of vision that difficult and painful parts of her story from becoming overwhelming. The novel candidly eplores the experiences of survivors of childhood sexual abuse and their recovery process comes out in writing. and through its warm, and engaging characters, takes the reader from #MeToo to triumph.

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MEMORY’S SHADOW a novel by gail benick

Set in the tumultuous 1970s when women, African Americans, gays, and lesbians fought for equality while a “New Right” mobilized in defense of political conservatism and traditional family values, Memory’s Shadow is the story of a family that survived the Holocaust and their ongoing engagement with that legacy long after World War II has ended. The novella deals with memory and mourning through the lens of the adult sisters in the Berk family.

Hetty the oldest, a real estate agent, is fearful of the urban black population moving into her “safe” Jewish suburb. Toni, the second sister, an unmarried intellectual and feminist, is determined to raise a child on her own. Linda Sue, the youngest and most compassionate of the three, is a teacher driven by the need to solve the mystery of her family’s survival in the Lodz ghetto during the Nazi occupation.

Memory’s Shadow is a tale of family loyalty, friendship, and resilience in the face of an un- imaginable recurrence of tragedy.

978-1-77133-781-6 The novel uniquely considers a number of pivotal moments that mark the 1970s as a $22.95 cdn watershed decade for the late twentieth century and early twenty-first century. It includes 5.5" x 8.25" pb, 180 pages fiction / september 2020 the explosive destruction of Pruitt-Igoe, an urban public housing project in St. Louis; all thirty-three buildings were demolished in the mid-1970s. The project has become an icon of the failure of urban renewal and public policy planning. The 1970s and beyond also gave rise to the era of the witness who provides testimony and eye-witness accounts of genocide. Gail Benick is a Toronto author and In the book, Hetty and Toni/Tilya, are child survivors of the Holocaust and participate in educator. Her career as a professor the Yale University/Fortunoff program in recording Holocaust testimony. on the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at Sheridan College in Oakville, Ontario, spanned more praise for gail benick’s earlier work: than three decades. At Sheridan, she offered courses on migration, the “In … The Girl Who Was Born That Way, Benick has compactly shown the complexities of immigrant experience, and storytell- migrating to a foreign land with few belongings and resources and many differences. She ing. She coordinated the Sheridan/ tells the story honestly, sensitively and with lots of heart..” University of Toronto at Mississauga —Canadian Jewish News joint program in Communication, Culture and Information Technology. She also coordinated the Japan Ex- change Program with Osaka Electro Communications University in Japan. Her debut novella, The Girl Who Was Born That Way, was published in 2015.

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BIRD SHADOWS a novel by JENNIE MORROW

Bird Shadows is a playful tale of eccentricities, misconceptions, and misogyny. While working on a personal spiritual project, an irreverent artist encourages her religious sister to rethink the marriage that seems to be killing her soul.

The people in the quaint little Bay of Fundy fishing village of Brood Bay will not soon forget the events of 1995. It was an outrage! A good Christian family was torn apart by the wicked influence of a mentally unbalanced, morally challenged artist. Pastor Wallace was appalled by the improper, if not evil, behaviour that had taken place right under his nose. His sympathies were most certainly with the abandoned husband, Warren, deacon of the church, generous and innocent man of God. But was Warren as innocent as he appeared? Not according to his sister-in-law, Rube. She had always seen through the posing and the praying, but she had her own problems to deal with. Since the death of her father, Rube had noticed an inordinate amount of religious symbolism in her dreams. What was that all about? Was God trying to tell her something? If so, couldn’t he have been a little clearer? Rube processed the material in the only way she knew, by painting the dreams. 978-1-77133-801-1 $22.95 cdn 5.5" x 8.25" pb, 280 pages Life became complicated when Rube shaved her head in an attempt to convert the weak- fiction / october 2020 ness of vanity into strength; her need to stay out of sight would help her focus on painting. However, Rube’s “secret” baldness was less of a secret than she imagined. To photographer friend Janet, it represented an excellent opportunity for some great shots of Rube’s bare skull, to sister Helen it was a deliberate provocation, to Pastor Wallace a sign that she had cancer, and to Warren, confirmation that what he had been saying all along was true—she Jennie Morrow is a writer and visual was looking for attention. artist who is inspired/provoked by the issues found at the intersection As Rube sifted through her dreams, panning for God, her sister, Helen, struggled to be a good of feminism and religion. She lives in wife to her fundamentalist husband, Warren. Helen purchased a video camera (it was 1995) Mavillette, Digby Cove, Nova Scotia in a sentimental attempt to record happy memories of her family. That backfired in a big with her husband, but spends part of way. Instead, Helen was confronted with evidence that her children, as well as her husband, the winter in Boeblingen Germany. were treating her disrespectfully. She deserved better and set out to get it. Bird Shadows is her debut novel.

The novel explores the tactics abusers use to keep their victims under their control and the reasons why abusers can thrive in a religious environment. Another theme addresses the left brain reliance on words and need for control versus the right brain intuitive/symbolic, empathic connection. Words can be withheld in an effort to control and lies can be used to disarm. But are images any better? The images of ourselves that we try to project, the images we create of the people around us, or Rube’s images illustrating her dreams? And how are we supposed to sort the good guys from the bad? It’s not like there’s a field guide describing the many species of human spirits. At least until now.

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PIGEON SOUP AND OTHER STORIES short fiction by rosanna micelotta battigelli

The characters in Pigeon Soup and Other Stories are embroiled in situations that test their limits with each other, outsiders, and themselves. They are navigating relationships and grappling with issues of translocation, language and identity, religion and culture, and food. These tales portray the dark places they inhabit physically, emotionally, or metaphorically, with twists that sometimes provide a flicker—or even a bright beam—of hope.

The collection begins with a light offering of “Pigeon Soup,” in which two Canadian university students who have arrived in Italy to help in an earthquake relief mission accept a ride from a quirky taxi driver. When he stops at his home for lunch, the drama begins. In “Alligator Shoes,” a boy’s bullying darkens Sina’s first year in high school, and his thoughtless and spiteful actions affect her deeper than anyone expects. The yearly sausage-making tradition is the glue that holds mother and daughter together, albeit tenuously, in “Francesca’s Ways.” In “This Too Shall Pass,” one of the characters encounters a dark skeleton from his past: a pedophile priest who has ingratiated himself among the Italian immigrants. In “The Hawk,” a child experiences inner conflict as a result of the psychological trauma. A teenage girl in 978-1-77133-793-9 “Veiled Intentions” witnesses the disturbing actions of her neighbour towards his wife and $22.95 cdn child, and is distressed at his intentional display of piety at Sunday mass. “In Degrees of 5.5" x 8.25" pb, 260 pages fiction / october 2020 Separation,” a fourteen-year-old is shaken by the discovery that a French student in his class is a victim of domestic violence. “Black as Tar” is a coming-of-age story for ten-year-old Jack, who experiences the prejudicial sentiments of a new neighbour whose son he has befriended.

At three years of age, Rosanna Micelotta Battigelli Although many of the stories feature Italian-Canadians and related themes, the immigrated from Calabria, Italy, to Sudbury, On- situations and characters portrayed in this book are not exclusive to this cultural tario, Canada with her family. During her teaching group. It features characters whose core needs are sometimes thwarted, resulting in career, she received four OECTA (Ontario English either psychological or physical conflict in their lives. They are then faced with the Catholic Teachers’ Association) Best Practice challenge of consciously or subconsciously seeking a resolution to their problem, Awards for her unique strategies in early literacy which may bring a measure of peace or have long-lasting ramifications. The book and other initiatives. An alumna of the Humber is timely, dealing with issues around bullying, mental and emotional health, and School for Writers, her writing has been published cultural sensitivity. in nineteen anthologies. Her novel, La Brigantessa, published in 2018, won a Gold Medal for Historical praise for rosanna micelotta battigelli’s earlier work: Fiction in the 2019 Independent Publisher (IPPY) Book Awards. La Brigantessa was also finalist for the “La Brigantessa is a fascinating novel that sweeps the reader into one of the most 2019 Canadian Authors Association Fred Kerner unsettled historical decades of Italian History – the Unification of Italy, which took Book Award and the 2019 Northern Lit Award. place between 1860 to 1870. What impressed me most about this novel was how Her children’s book, Pumpkin Orange, Pumpkin factual history was seamlessly interwoven with a handful of fictional characters and Round, was published in the fall of 2019, and how they were impacted during this tumultuous political period. This is what I she has published two novels with Harlequin UK expect from a good historical fiction novel—to be entertained as well as educated, (2018, 2020). She lives in Sudbury. and this novel did this brilliantly.”—Ottawa Review of Books

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DUSK IN THE FROG PONG AND OTHER STORIES short fiction by rummana chowdhury

Today diasporic literature is an integral component of the international literary fabric that makes for relevant story telling. Dusk in the Frog Pond and Other Stories is a collection of eight short stories that explore the lives of Muslim women as they deal with the challenges of migration, displacement, identity, nostalgia, loneliness, socio-economic disparity, and cultural assimilation.

A particular focus is the theme of arranged marriages. The main characters are Muslim women in or from Bangladesh. Some of the marriages are happy. In others the women feel isolated, often trapped and always unloved. Some find love in another man. One murders her mother-in-law; another has a warm, loving relationship with hers. One feels estranged from her teenage daughter who tries hard to be like non-immigrant Canadian girls. Often husbands have to be absent for work.

In the title story, “Dusk in a Frog Pond,” set in a remote village of Bangladesh, the demons of Ruby and Monir’s fairy tale life fade away, though the many shades of war, its aftermath, 978-1-77133-797-7 historical significance, as well as rebellion and existence are forever in the air. “Her Pink $19.95 cdn 5.5" x 8.25" pb, 160 pages Pearls” is set in New York City but the glitz and the glamour of the city is missing in Ayesha fiction / october 2020 and Kamal’s lives. Instead, gender inequality, violence against women, and the challenges of migration rear their complex heads in this story about a violent act of murder. In “Shadow Over the Henna Tree,” Helen and Probal struggle with their rebellious Rummana Chowdhury is the author of for- daughter, Angela, in a story where Bangladesh versus Canada, East versus West, ty-three books, in both Bengali and English, and freedom of spirit versus chains and shackles are at the root of heartache and which include poetry, short stories, novels, and misunderstanding. In “Monsoon Breeze,” Bob and Brishti, two divorcees meet essays. She is a leading global commentator on and fall in love in Toronto, and face the challenges of an interracial marriage. issues of migration that pertain to the South Asian Many women’s issues are at the heart of “Rodela’s Invsible Colours”; women who Diaspora, violence against women, diasporic are compelled to stay in a marriage though they feel suffocated and are in despair. literature, translation, cultural and historical “The Door Remains Closed” deals with the pain, loneliness, and bitterness of a remembrance strategies, and feminist politics and single parent. Arranged marriages and abuse women experience in male-dominated culture. She has received several notable awards societies, are the focus of “She Is, She Isn’t.” The collection ends with “Of Fox and including Woman of the Year, 2010, Canada, Fiddle,”a delightful telephone conversation between two adults who have not met and Best Writer and Translator for Diaspora but who have been conversing for a year, and who speak of an arranged marriage Literature, Ontario Bengali Cultural Society, even though they are older than the usual age for it. They talk about love and 2016. She has also received several awards for her literature and what their marriage would be like. contributions to Bengali, English and Diasporic literature and translation work, including, most These are powerful stories, reflecting joy and sorrow, never forgetting the eternally recently, the Kobi Jasim Uddin Award, 2019, burning fire of hope that both lives and dies within all of us, and depicting cul- and the Bangladesh Lekhika Shongho Award for ture, tradition, and past history in parallel force with today’s modernized world. Literature and Translation, 2017. She immigrated Rummana Chowdhury has been awarded over thirty awards in India for her to Canada in 1982 and for the past thirty years excellence in Bengali literature/she is the author of 43 books of various genres in has worked as an accredited interpreter/ translator. English and Bengali. She lives in Mississauga, Ontario.

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DARIA a novel by IRENE MARQUES

Daria is a young immigrant girl trying to find her way in a new (but also very old) world, where patriarchal networks abound. Daria’s story is bound to multiple characters, their individual stories forcing the reader to see the world with different eyes: an Indo-Portuguese-Canadian sexual predator, an idealist and resilient Mozambican freedom fighter with an insatiable thirst for virgins; an exquisite Iberian Roma circus—Iberian Christianized Muslims and Jews; a Nubian master who knows how to capture black matter; a searching Caribbean-Canadian diversity director and wannabe African; a fascist dictator whose ruthless cousin delivers unthinkable punishments to anti-colonial combatants inside the closed walls of Tarrafal, the infamous Cape Verdean prison of the Portuguese colonial regime—and countless other characters, some wretched, some redeemable, some spiritually pristine, and some other- worldly, defending visions and ideals, fighting for dignity, power, fame, and recognition.

The novel goes back and forth between Portugal, Canada, Mozambique, and Cape Verde to display and juxtapose specific cultural, historical and familial contexts, where the intimate and personal intermingle with the collective of the world at large.

978-1-77133-841-7 When Daria is subjected to a violent attack, the impact of colonialism, patriarchy, and who $22.95 cdn we choose to love are thrown into sharp relief. 5.5" x 8.25" pb, 300 pages fiction / november 2020 There are very few books published in Canada that deal with the experiences of Portu- guese-Canadians and especially women. This book, which is partly autobiographical, deals with issues of sexual assault and immigrant women. The book also addresses important historical issues related to the Portuguese empires in Africa, the Portuguese colonial wars Irene Marques is a bilingual writer and the Portuguese fascist regime; few people in Canada are aware of this history. (English and Portuguese) and Lecturer at Ryerson University in the English The novel is unique in style: there is a mixing of discourses ranging from the confessional Department where she teaches literature autobiographical, to the poetic, to the factual (historical), to the analytical, to the satirical, and creative writing. Her literary pub- to the magic-realist, to the mystical. lications include the poetry collections Wearing Glasses of Water (2007); The Per- fect Unravelling of the Spirit (2012); and praise for irene marques’s earlier work: The Circular Incantation: An Exercise in “What impresses most in Irene Marques’s first book of poetry Wearing[ Glasses of Water], Loss and Findings (2013), the Portuguese are the expansive situations she creates. Rarely does small abide over large, or unadorned language short story collection Habitando show instead of ornate, for this Portuguese-born Canadian writer revels in abundance and na Metáfora do Tempo: Crónicas Desejadas lush coloring. Call this fat poetry, not thin. At its best it reminds me of the magic realism (2009); and the novel My House is a Man- of Gabriel Garcia Marquez: everything writ large and interconnected.” sion (2015). Her Portuguese language —ARC: Canada’s National Poetry Magazine novel, Uma casa no mundo, won the 2019 Imprensa Nacional/Ferreira deCastro Prize and is forthcoming in 2020. She lives in Toronto.

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TO THE MEN WHO WRITE GOODBYE LETTERS poems by gianna patriarca

The poems in To the Men Who Write Goodbye Letters explore and make sense of the choices made when we “end” things, or when things end without our permission, whether it be the end of a life, the end of a romance, or the result of an unexpected tragedy. These poems are a poet’s observation and reflection on the reasons for loss and endings, survival and redemption. They also offer an examination of lives searching for the clarity and value, sometimes obscured by the lack of internal reflection, which would lead to self- discovery and, ultimately, self-affirmation.

These poems attempt to understand choices we make about life and death (including end of life decisions, suicide, etc.). The poet deals with universal issues of death, loss, grief, and finding life’s purpose, to explore the poetry in the choices made, to understand loss at the ends of destiny and humanity,and to reconcile the survival and the pain, in between. 978-1-77133-825-7 $18.95 cdn 6" x 7.5" pb, 100 pages poetry / september 2020 “To The Men Who Write Goodbye Letters is the work of an artist at the top of her game. In this elegantly crafted collection of poems, Patriarca has tapped into one of poetry’s most magical powers, its ability to sweeten the tragic and make it palatable to the human heart. Even when the poet sings of suicide and death, there is gentle comfort in the lyrical flow of the voice and its loving attention to the simple and ordinary details surrounding even the most sorrowful events.” —Luciano Iacobelli, poet/author Gianna Patriarca is an award-win- “Gianna Patriarca’s reflective collection is a poetic reckoning in which missed opportunities, ning author of eight books of poetry, unspoken words, and ‘secrets and silences’ are confronted in ‘order to let go.’ In a sympa- one children’s book, and a collection thetic, incisive voice the poet faces a haunting of lovers, deceased family and friends and an of short stories inspired by the lives immigrant community prosperous and dispersed. This percipient work is a taut redress to of Italian Canadian women, All My loss and promises not kept. A testament to the intimate burden of memory.” Fallen Angelas (2016). Her writing is —Joseph Sciorra, Queens College CUNY extensively anthologized and appears on the course list of universities in “Gianna Patriarca has never been afraid to confront issues of powerless, silenced women marginalized by their conditions. With deceptively simple language this strong, rich collection of Italy, Canada, and the U.S. Her work poems speaks to us with forceful emotion, one that readers will return to again and again.” and writing has also writing been —Joseph Pivato, Athabasca University adapted for the Canadian stage, CBC radio drama, and appears in many documentary films. Her first book, Italian Women and Other Tragedies, is in its fourth printing and has been translated into Italian. She lives in Toronto and is currently working on a novel.

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FESTIVAL OF ALL SOULS poems by jean eng

Festival of All Souls explores the experience of an Asian woman born in Canada. Although neither fully rooted in one or the other, the influence of two different cultures allows heri- tage, gender and values to nonetheless, enrich a personal vision. The title refers to an Asian ceremony whereby families visit ancestral gravesites in the spring to pay their respects to the departed. During this observance of tribute and commemoration, time is also provided for contemplation and the acknowledgement of renewal that is in harmony with the season.

The poetry in this collection is guided by, and ultimately expands upon themes inspired by this ritual: cycles of fullness and loss, expressions of visible and hidden energy, as well as navigations through public and private space. A definition of soul widens to include within our human capacity— plants, animals, minerals, and even weather.

Whether leaves pause on the rim of a jade plant bowl, a starling understands Cantonese, or

978-1-77133-821-9 waves lunge like white dragons across Lake Ontario, an invitation is extended to celebrate $18.95 cdn the diversity of being in this world. 5.5" x 8.25" pb, 100 pages poetry / september 2020 There is growing interest in works written by authors who come from a range of multicul- tural backgrounds and experiences. While many Chinese Canadian authors are known for novels or non-fiction, there are few collections of poetry by Chinese Canadian women; this volume helps fill this void.

The poet’s work often contains elements of humour within a narrative or lyrical style. Fur- ther, as the poet is also a visual artist, this collection is influenced by the perceptions and Jean Eng is a writer and visual artist sensibilities of being a painter. from Toronto, Ontario. Her paintings have been exhibited in Canada, the U.S. and Japan. They also hang in public and private collections including the Government of Ontario. Her poetry has appeared in literary journals in Canada, the U.S., and United Kingdom, including Canadian Literature; Contemporary Verse 2; The Dalhousie Review; Grain; The Nashwaak Review; The New Quarterly; Room; Vallum and WomenArts Quarterly. Her work was also included in a limited edition chapbook, Lacewing, an anthology of nature poetry. She lives in Toronto.

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WINDOW LEDGE poems by lesley strutt

The poems in Window Ledge are a raw unadorned testament to what has been done and is being done human to human, and human to animal, plant, fowl, and fish. They express a kind of fatality combined with awe at the mysterious power of compassion that transcends everything.

Window Ledge draws from the poet’s experience of humans as vulnerable, mistaken, doing their best, or not. Her poems take risks and postulate that our salvation is essentially finding our way to the essence of everything. The poems in the first section of the book feel their way through life, on feet, on paws, on wings, and with their fins. The second section carves deeper into what we crave, what we cannot escape, and inevitably what we must make peace with. The final section describes the paradoxes of wholeness that include moments of not knowing, of utter stillness, of surrender and acceptance. 978-1-77133-817-2 $18.95 cdn The poems in this collection honour our humanity (the worst and the best). These are not 6" x 7.5" pb, 280 pages the poems of a young woman. They were written as the poet rode the tumultuous waves of poetry / october 2020 life and found shimmering unexpected joy in the midst of indescribable pain.

praise for lesley strutt’s earlier work:

“There is something quite exquisite about a number of the poems in Small as Butterflies. I was taken by the pauses, hesitations and halts that swim throughout, and the writer’s ability to articulate a deftness through quick turns, narratives through a series of collage-fragments, and Lesley Strutt is a poet, playwright, an indirectness through precision. What might be seen as a confusion of lines, spacings and essayist, novelist, and blogger living wounds, Small as Butterflies utilizes the proper play of language into something else, entirely.” in Merrickville, Ontario. Her writing —Rob McLennan has appeared in anthologies, e-zines, as well as journals such as Montreal Serai; CV2; Prairie Fire; Ottawater; The Lit- erary Review; Bywords; and Canadian Woman Studies/les cahiers de la femme. Her chapbook Small as Butterflies won the 2015 Tree Chapbook prize. Her YA novel, On the Edge, was published to critical acclaim in 2019.

THE BECOMING a memoir by nicole luongo

The Becoming is a brutally honest account of a woman who uses her intelligence to reinvent a healthy self, once broken by cycles of alcoholism, bulimia, and anorexia. For all intents and purposes, this book is an identity project; one that illuminates the underlying mechanisms through which medicalization—that is, the social, cultural, economic, and political processes that contribute to deviant behaviour being defined and treated as illness—functions as a form of social control in a mental health context.

Drawing from the author’s lived experience and informed by classic and contemporary academic theories, The Becoming provides intimate insight into how traditional eating disorder, substance abuse, and psychiatric treatment pathologizes human suffering and disempowers vulnerable populations. In so doing, the author critiques the broader social forces—capitalism, colonialism, patriarchy—that reify the disease model of mental illness.

Beyond this, The Becoming engages with burgeoning research from the disciplines of gender studies, public health, and neurobiology, all of which indicates that trauma—not disease— is 978-1-77133813-4 largely responsible for mental health disturbances. The book then, synthesizes over a century’s $22.95 cdn 6" x 9" pb, 260 pages worth of theory and data to provide deeply personal—though highly relatable—commentary memoir / october 2020 on the medicalization of anguish.

The Becoming is structured as a non-linear personal narrative. Throughout, its central character grapples with identifying, defining, and understanding the embodied experience of psychosis—an experience she ultimately decides is indicative not of mental illness Nicole Luongo is a thirty-year old settler of Italian but of pain; of having witnessed and lived through events that are, given the inherent and German descent. She holds Bachelor of Arts limitations of language, too excruciating to articulate. The text implicitly draws from and Master of Arts degrees in medical sociology post-structuralist analyses of reality to inform the protagonist’s quest for “truth” amid from the University of British Columbia. Her multiple, competing discourses about the origins and presentation of mental illness. research interests—disordered eating, substance It thus echoes early positions taken by radical psychiatrists and psychoanalysts such abuse, and the social production of Madness— as Thomas Szasz and R. D. Laing, both of whom argued that psychiatric diagnoses are born of lived experience. As a young person, are inherently unstable and wrongly imply the presence of disease. The text does Nicole faced housing-deprivation on Vancouver’s not, however, seek to minimize or refute others’ experience of medicalization—its Downtown Eastside and witnessed first-hand the autobiographical nature and intentional ambiguity allow the reader to derive her or stigma and violence associated with socio-eco- his own conclusions about psychiatry as a profession and a framework. nomic and other forms of oppression. Since then, Nicole has been involved in initiatives related to Mad Studies is a burgeoning field of inquiry, both within the academy and outside of housing justice and drug policy reform. She is a it. There is, for instance, a Mad Studies program in the School of Disability Studies at Ontario’s Ryerson University. It is rare to find full-length texts, especially memoirs, proud member of VANDU (the Vancouver Area that draw from explicitly Mad Studies frameworks (most Mad Studies curricula takes Network of Drug Users) and presently teaches the form of peer-reviewed journal articles). In this way, The Becoming is unique. college-level sociology while plotting her next move. She lives in Fort McMurray, Alberta.

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LAWRENCIA’S LAST PARANG A MEMOIR OF LOSS AND BELONGING AS A BLACK WOMAN IN CANADA a memoir by anita jack-davies

Lawrencia’s Last Parang: A Memoir on Loss and Belonging as a Black Woman in Canada is a snapshot of the author’s life immediately after the passing of her grandmother Lawrencia, the woman who raised her. Written in the style of patchwork quilt that takes the reader back and forth between the present and the past, she examines her grief from the perspective of a Canadian-born Black woman of Caribbean descent, and she begins to question her identity and what it means to be a Black Canadian in new ways. This means exploring her childhood in Trinidad and her adult life in Kingston, Ontario, a predominantly white city, her experience of raising a mixed-raced child, and the meaning of her interracial marriage.

Given love and protection by the grandmother who raised her in Trinidad, she belongs to Trinidad, but she was born in Canada to biological parents who were either absent or inad- equate. Thus, she occupies what she describes as a third space, needing both Trinidad and Canada, loving both, and belonging fully to neither. 978-1-77133-809-7 $22.95 cdn In Canada, in Kingston, she has a white husband from a famous family and a bi-racial 6" x 9" pb, 180 pages daughter, and she struggles with issues of racism almost on a daily basis—everything from memoir / november 2020 “where are you from?” to nurses who come to see the Black woman who gave birth to a white baby, to resentful students at the university where she teaches. Within the academy she is again in a kind of third space as a “sometimes professor,” where archetypes of the Black body (mammy, jezebel, matriarch, and welfare mother) that her students read about, clash with the position of authority she holds in the classroom. Anita Jack-Davies was born in Toron- to, Ontario, and spent her formative Simultaneously a memoir, a eulogy, and an academic analysis of race in Canada, the book years on the islands of Trinidad and offers an insightful exploration of race in Canada, one that complicates these issues through Tobago in the Caribbean, but re- the lens of identity and loss, but also through a prism of privilege. turned to Canada at eleven years old. . In 1998, she became a teacher and spent five years as an educator with the Toronto District School Board before returning to graduate school to earn a Ph.D. in Education. She is currently Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography and Urban Planning at Queen’s University and is Director, Strategic Partnerships & Development at Ryerson University. She has taught courses in the areas of black feminisms, feminist pedagogies and race and racism. She lives with her family in Kingston, Ontario.

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BLOODROOT TRACING THE UNTELLING OF MOTHERLOSS a memoir by betsy warland

It is rare for an author to re-enter one of her books published twenty years ago. In the first edition of Bloodroot, Warland traced how a mother’s shared gender with her daughter can shape the very anatomy of narrative itself. In her mother’s final year, Warland quietly dis- covered how to disentangle a crucial, concealed story that had rendered their relationship disconnected and fraught.

The book tracks how a mother-daughter relationship that was so disconnected was given an odd opening after the author’s mother awakens and tells her the bizarre story that she had another (secret) daughter. This seemingly deluded conversation was the opening to a much deeper and compassionate relationship between mother and daughter. The narrative traces the story that bound them together in the mother-daughter relationship, and her reflections help her find clarity, understanding and acceptance.

Warland weaves a common ground that moves beyond duty and despair, providing both questions and guideposts for readers, particularly those faced with ageing and ill parents and their loss. 978-1-77133-837-0 $22.95 cdn 6" x 9" pb, 200 pages The 2000 edition broke new ground in memoir form and uncharted storytelling. The 2020 memoir / september 2020 edition, reprinted by Inanna for the launch of its Inanna Reprint Series, includes a new inanna reprint series foreword by Cate Sandilands, and a new introduction by Warland that explores subsequent questions, insights, and tenderness only the passage of time can enable.

Betsy Warland has published thirteen books of Betsy Warland is one of Canada’s leading feminist writers. She has published thirteen creative nonfiction, lyric prose, and poetry. War- books of creative non-fiction, lyric prose, and poetry. land’s 2010 book of essays on writing, Breathing the Page: Reading the Act of Writing, became a praise for betsy warland’s earlier work: bestseller. A Winnipeg Free Press review of her 2016 Oscar of Between: A Memoir of Identity and “Warland’s Oscar of Between is an astonishing book by a truly luminous writer. In- Ideas, called it “an astonishing book by a truly tellectually and emotionally brave, there isn’t a word that doesn’t ring deeply, deeply luminous writer.” Oscar of Between has since true.” —Winnipeg Free Press become the basis for Lloyd Burritt’s opera, The Art of Camouflage to be premiered in a one-act “Vibrant and pulsating with life, Oscar of Between, like Warland’s other works, opera festival in 2020. Warland’s 2020 book of demonstrates Warland’s multiple engagements with crucial—and contemporary— prose poems Lost Lagoon/lost in thought (set in literary, political, and aesthetic questions.”—Lambda Literary Review Vancouver’s Stanley Park) is forthcoming. Author, mentor, teacher, manuscript consultant, editor, and Director of Vancouver Manuscript Intensive, a former director and mentor in The Writer’s Studio at Simon Fraser University., Warland received the City of Vancouver Mayor’s Award for Literary Excellence in 2016.

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WHO IS KIM ONDAATJE? THE INVENTIVE LIFE OF A CANADIAN ARTIST a biography by lola tostevin

This book is a biography of artist, film maker, and photographer, Kim Ondaatje, née Bet- ty Jane Kimbark. Born into a wealthy family, Kim’s story is a reverse of the rags to riches narrative. She married two highly successful writers, Douglas Jones and Michael Ondaatje, had six children, and managed to carve a career as a respected artist whose works are in all major galleries/museums in Canada.

Kim Ondaatje’s life is fascinating on many fronts. She is undoubtedly talented, and has contributed significantly to the Canadian art scene. One of her paintings from the Factory series hangs in the newly opened Canadian gallery at the Art Gallery of Ontario. She continues to be creative as she approaches her nineties.

Biographies are a popular genre; there is no doubt that Kim Ondaatje’s extraordinary life diverged from most. Kim Ondaatje is much more than “the wife” of famous Canadian men; she has contributed significantly to the Canadian art scene, and she should enjoy more recognition. The author has known Kim Ondaatje for over forty years, and Kim always said, 978-1-77133-829-5 if ever someone were to write her biography it should be Lola Tostevin. $34.95 cdn 6" x 9" pb, 300 pages biography / nov. 2020 includes artwork

Lola Tostevin was born into a French-speaking family in Timmins Ontario. She writes mostly in English although she often incorporates French into her writing, especially in her poetry. She has published eight poetry collections of which two were translated into Italian and published in Italy; three novels, of which one was translated into French; and two collections of literary essays.

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STILL LIVING THE EDGES A DISABLED WOMEN’S READER edited by diane driedger

Still Living the Edges: A Disabled Women’s Reader is a follow up to Diane Driedger’s 2010 anthology, Living the Edges: A Disabled Women’s Reader. Ten years after the publication of the first book, the lives of women with disabilities have not changed much, as disabled women still face discrimination because they are women and because they are disabled.

Still Living the Edges is an international reader that features articles, poetry, essays and visual art from women with various disabilities, from nations such as Canada, United States, Australia, Russia, United Kingdom, and Zimbabwe. Disabled women are still on the edges, whether that be on the cutting edge, being pushed to the edges of society or challenging the edges, the barriers in their way.

This collection brings together the diverse voices of women with various disabilities, both physical and mental. Disabled women write about their experiences with violence, employ-

978-1-77133-833-2 ment, relationships, body image, sexuality and family life, society’s attitudes, and physical, $29.95 cdn sexual and emotional abuse. They also talk about the challenges of navigating inaccessible 6" x 9" pb, 300 pages environments, both physical and attitudinal. They explore their identity as women with non- fiction / oct. 2020 includes artwork various disabilities—mental and physical. In the last section of Still Living the Edges, disabled women write about how they are challenging the physical and attitudinal barriers that exclude them from society.

Diane Driedger has been involved Disablity Studies is widely taught in colleges/universities across North America. No other in the disability rights movement at book like this exists in Canada, except for the first volume,Living the Edges, published by the local, national and international Inanna in 2010. levels for 40 years, with organizations such as Disabled Peoples’ Interna- tional (DPI), the DisAbled Women’s Network (DAWN) Canada, and Council of Canadians with Disabil- ities (CCD). She has published ten books, including four anthologies by women with disabilities, and The Last Civil Rights Movement: Disabled Peoples’ International (1989). She is also a poet and visual artist. Her most recent poetry book is Red With Living (2016). She is Assistant Professor in the Interdisciplinary Master’s Program in Disability Studies at the University of Manitoba.

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THE LEGACY OF MOTHERS: MATRIARCHIES AND THE GIFT ECONOMY AS POST-CAPITALIST ALTERNATIVES edited by erella shadmi

The many powerful voices of the international contributors to this anthology argue that motherhood may be the foundation of alternative human logic, a new socio-political order, a new value system, and a way of liberating mothers themselves. This book does not present a utopia but a possible road to an alternative evolvement of the world different from the common thinking in the Global North: In lieu of capitalism—the gift economy and the subsistence economy; in lieu of trans-humanism—nature and all her human and non-human inhabitants; in lieu of individualism—community; in lieu of domination—balance and responsibility; in lieu of State—localism; in lieu of monotheism—spirituality; in lieu of equality feminism—transformative feminism. The signs of this development are already seen everywhere: in the New Age, in urban communes, in the Occupy movement, in the mothers’ movement.

Based on critique of the failures of capitalism, the State, enlightment, patriarchy, and even previously announced western feminism, the book’s second section presents alternatives coming from outside the 978-1-77133-709-0 patriarchal framework. For example: the maternal gift economy as an economic model and $34.95 cdn human logic; matriarchal society—balanced, free and equal; gift giving and subsistence per- 6 x 9” pb, 300 pages non-fiction / april 2020 spective instead of exchange and accumulation; motherism as a central concept in African legacy; goddesses as spiritual and cultural icons. Such perceptions challenge the escape from the mother or mothering (to career, for example) Erella Shadmi is a feminist, peace and anti-racism activist, that is so prevalent in the West. and scholar living in Israel. She co-founded Kol Ha’Isha (Jerusalem feminist centre), the Fifth Mother (a women’s The possibilities to actualize this re-understanding of motherhood and peace movement), and the Ashkenazi women’s group mothering—including local communities, healing and peacemaking—are established to contemplate on Ashkenazi racism. She has presented in the third part. been active, among other things, in Women in Black, and the Mizrahi feminist movement, Achoti. She was a board member of B’tselem and a member of the Truth Commis- sion for the Nakba in the Negev 1948-1960, established by Zochrot organization. She is now active in the Haifa Feminist Center, Isha Le’Isha, and currently leads the initiatives to establish the Center for Women’s Cultures and co-housing for elderly women. She is also active in two global networks, dealing with gift economy, matriarchal societies and Indigenous rights and knowledge. Erella is the former head of the Women’s Studies Program at Beit Berl Academic College, a unique program that is open to less-educated women and focuses on marginalized groups in Israel. Her numerous published books and articles deal with social change movements, male violence against women, Ashkenaziness, lesbianism, spirituality, the maternal gift economy, and matriarchal societies. As a criminologist and Promotional Plans • Toronto launch one of the pioneering researchers of the Israel Police, she • Promotional bookmarks published several critical articles and the first of its kind, • Review copy mailing / submissions to reading series • Ads in trade and literary magazines a book on police and policing in Israel. 20 INANNA NON-FICTION HIGHLIGHTS

CLIMATE CHAOS ECOFEMINISMS AND THE LAND QUESTION

edited by ana isla

“At a time when macho politics are intensifying while the basis of survival for most of humanity is being undermined, ecofeminist readings could not be more important in examining the social causes and chaotic consequences of a most pressing and globally destructive process that is capitalism-induced: accelerated climate change. In this edited volume, activist intellectuals from many backgrounds methodically expose the structural intersection of diverse forms of oppression (social as well as beyond) that characterize an always profoundly patriarchal, racist, heteronormative capitalist world disorder that produces the current manifold global predicament. This systematic ecofeminist analysis of the linkage between climate change and intersecting oppressions is long overdue. This is not only because it facilitates a holistic understanding of climate change that continues to be largely omitted in the mainstream and wilfully absent or attacked in re-emergent violent groupings of oppression supporters. This book provides essential guidance to those who take seriously the need to combine social justice with ecologically constructive existence. It re-introduces and further develops immediately practicable alternatives that ecofeminists have been formulating for decades and, as much 978-1-77133-593-5 as feasible, putting into action.”—Salvatore Engel-Di Mauro, Associate Professor, $34.95 cdn SUNY New Paltz; Editor, Capitalism Nature Socialism 6" x 9" pb, 352 pages non-fiction / april 2019 Ana Isla is Professor with a joint appointment in the Sociology Department and the Centre for Women’s and Gender Studies (WGST) at Brock University. She is the author of The Greening of Costa Rica: Women, Peasants, Indigenous People, and the Remaking of Nature (2015).

THE MATERNAL ROOTS OF THE GIFT ECONOMY edited by GENEVIEVE VAUGHAN

The idea of a free gift economy has become important in the movement for alternative economics, however the connection with women and especially with mothers has not been widely understood. In a moment when the values of Patriarchy and the market seem to have triumphed, the values of mothering and care are more sorely needed than ever. This book explores many aspects of the gift paradigm from a variety of points of view, taking into account theory and practice, activism and spirituality, as well as the experience of Indigenous societies North and South where maternal values are still at the centre for both women and men. Readers will find ways of thinking and being that are possible beyond the Patriarchal Capitalism that is now threatening the existence of life on Mother Earth.

“Genevieve Vaughan’s The Maternal Roots of the Gift Economy is a masterpiece that captures all that has gone wrong within human societies, while offering us a clear path toward rec- onciling our standing with the rest of creation. Vaughan’s recognition of the inherent logic of the Mother as an economic superstructure of values is brilliant in its truth.This book is a necessary antidote to the unchecked consumption and life-threatening destruction that is 978-1-77133-409-9 $39.95 cdn being wrought by the market economy.”—Sherri Mitchell, author of Sacred Instruc- 6" x 9" pb, 350 pages tions: Indigenous Wisdom for Living Spirit-Based Change. non-fiction / jan. 2019 Genevieve Vaughan’s published books include For-Giving: A Feminist Criticism of Exchange (1997); Homo Donans (2007); and The Gift in the Heart of Language (2015). She has also edited two anthologies The Gift / Il Dono (2004) and Women and the Gift Economy (2007).

Inanna Publications also publishes Canadian Woman Studies/les cahiers de la femme, an invaluable journal for anyone interested in feminist scholarship and activism.

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