Trailblazers: Women Talk about Changing Canada
- ISBN-10
- 0385256582
- ISBN-13
- 9780385256582
- Series
- Trailblazers
- Pages
- 300
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1999
- Publisher
- Doubleday Canada
- Author
- Judith Finlayson
Description
"Trailblazers comprises the stories of thirty-six women who broke the mould; all are inspiring individualists who demanded the right to be equal participants in society. Often they succeeded by determination alone, smashing the stereotypes that defined what women could-or should-do.
From Monique Begin, the first woman to be elected a Quebec Member of Parliament, to Justine Blainey who won the right to play hockey with her male peers, to Helen Lucas, a painter who overcame the restrictions of an immigrant background to create her inspirational and joyous art, each tells--in her own voice--the unique story of how she blazed a trail, knowingly or not, and became part of the force that created Canadian society as we know it.
