A documentation of the exciting intitiatives that have been happening in the movement to green schoolyards, A Breath of Fresh Air is filled with luminous photographs of children and gardens, as well as the schools, communities, and teachers that nurture them. 
Exploring the myriad benefits of school gardening, A Breath of Fresh Air details school garden projects across Toronto. In the course of acknowledging the effort and dedication that it takes for a community to transform a schoolyard from packed earth or asphalt to a living landscape, A Breath of Fresh Air discusses topics such as habitat rehabilitation, play gardens, and the need to reconnect children with nature. This beautifully designed book with stunning full-colour photography will inspire teachers and parents to look at and celebrate their schoolyards in a new light.

A Breath of Fresh Air: Celebrating Nature and School Gardens

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Margaret, Atwood

Robert Christie

Elise Houghton

Gardening & Landscape Design

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Almost everyone is affected by divorce, child rearing and support, and by the changing structure of the family in our society. But how many understand the issues and problems involved around custody of children when families split up? What is fair and best for the child? In this compelling exposé Susan Crean examines the controversial phenomenon of “fathers' rights” and mandatory joint custody.

In the Name of the Fathers: The Story Behind Child Custody

Politics & Social Sciences

Crean, Susan

Sociology

Anthropologist, nurse and writer Francine Saillant interweaves her personal experience and scientific knowledge to create a unique and moving account of one women's struggle with obesity and transformation. Alternating between an analytic tone and one that is much more personal and poetic, Saillant documents her story. She relates how, as a sixteen year old, she was put on her first diet by her doctor and how, at that moment, the word obese entered her vocabulary and haunted her life.Saillant describes the dieting struggles, the hunger and shame that have been part of her daily experience and the suffering many women endure to meet North American standards of beauty. InInterior Passages Saillant shares with the reader her experience of transformation and the complex reality that is part of her story. In doing so she creates an account that is at once provocative and enlightening.

Interior Passages: Obesity and Transformation

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Saillant, Francine

Women's Health

With sensitivity and direct language, Jan Rehner, a woman who herself is infertile, presents an insightful examination of the problem of infertility and how to deal with it. Focusing on the feeling, insecurities and experiences of women faced with the condition, she discusses the options available, technologies prescribed and approaches taken.

Infertility: Old Myths New Meanings

Rehner, Jan

Humour and honesty characterize the short fiction of twenty-eight talented women from the Maritimes to the West coast. Exploring such themes as sexuality, class, race and inter-generational relationships, this anthology reflects an impressive range of styles and technical approaches.

Frictions

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

Prize winning novelist and poet Leona Gom challenges the reader to meet an all-women society of the future. She examines the relations and value system of a culture of women where the few men still alive are in hiding, socialized early in life to regard themselves as inferior. The Y Chromosome a provocative novel that probes women's and men's lives in a society that, despite striking differences, bears many similarities to our world today.

The Y Chromosome

Gom, Leona

Science Fiction & Fantasy

In this penetrating analysis of women's rights before the law, Razack considers the history of LEAF and its work.

Canadian Feminism and the Law

RAZACK, Sherene

Constitutional Law

Intimate first person reflections presented at their most revealing and honest. In this extraordinary collection lesbians of various ages, experiences, cultural and economic backgrounds write of their personal lives. Coming out, loving, separating parents and children, work and getting along in the world are only some of the themes explored. Our Lives is a compelling, sometimes humorous, collection of diary accounts, letters, poems and short stories by women interpreting the day-to-day occurrences of their lives through their private journals.

Our Lives: Lesbian Personal Writings

Rooney, Frances

World Literature

A collection of interweaving short stories, Of Customs and Excise links together the lives of several very different women across oceans and decades. Some we meet in India, others in England and still others in Canada. In one story, an Indian woman who becomes pregnant is rushed quickly into marriage. In other stories we meet a doctor, a white woman, who helps hide her secret, and the doctor's servant whose background and position cause her to depise her well-meaning employer. Many years later, in Prince Edward Island, we meet that baby, now a teenager rebelling against her family's customs which are so different from the society around her. Women bound together by their gender, by the effects of racism, oppression and sexism are only a few of the themes explored in this compelling collection of original stories.

Of Customs & Excise: Short Fiction

Gilmore, Rachna

The ‘Mother Jones’ of Canada, This Magazine has showcased magnificent critical writing for more than a decade. Through various articles, writers of the calibre of Margaret Atwood, Susan G. Cole, Timothy Findley, Katherine Govier, Myrna Kostash, Linda McQuaig, and Libby Scheier have explored and exposed a broad spectrum of women's issues, concerns and experiences. In Twist and Shout, Susan Crean has taken thirty-five of the best pieces and created a document which paints a provocative and compelling picture of women in contemporary society as seen by some of its most astute observers.
 About the Editor: Susan Crean is a journalist, lecturer and the author of several books.

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

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