<p>The memoir of a South Asian immigrant to Canada, whose formative years in India were steeped in a reigning patriarchal culture of honour and shame, in which the burden of the family's good standing rests on the sexual purity of girls and women. The book traces the author's lonely, poignant, often risk-charged struggle to free herself from the oppressive code. As well, the book chronicles her courageous battle to help other South Asian girls and women in Canada  step out of their kinsmen's ancient cultural cycle and claim their gender rights as fully equal Canadian citizens.</p>

Unworthy Creature: A Punjabi Daughter's Memoir of Honour, Shame and Love

Biographies & Memoirs

Barbara Kay

Aruna Papp

Community & Culture

Freedom Press Canada Inc.

<p>ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS and Other Essays is a collection of previously unpublished writing by National Post columnist Barbara Kay. This wide-ranging selection includes original essays - notably the title essay, a mini-memoir of the cultural and intellectual influences that shaped Kay's worldview - as well as a discursive ramble through the bizarre sub-culture of the pit bull advocacy movement. In between, readers familiar with Kay's weekly columns over the last ten years will find elaborated commentaries on her niche subjects: the negative impact of feminism on our public institutions and families, the erosion of academic integrity in the universities and our politically correct "rights" culture's subversion of social and civic reciprocity in Canadian communities.</p>

Acknowledgements: A Cultural Memoir And Other Essays

Over the Wall

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