Canadian Woman Studies: An Introductory Reader is a collection of articles on various themes and topics which are at the forefront of feminist inquiry and research. This best-selling volume is an excellent introduction to the strides women and girls have made in the past twenty years, and where we aim to be in the future. In addition, as the book is a compilation of articles previously published in Canadian Woman Studies/les cahiers de la femme over the past years, it offers a unique and historical perspective of feminism and feminist thought in Canada, as well as the development of women's studies as a curriculum and as a field of innovative and practical research.

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Frances Beer is admirably qualified to write about The Canterbury Tales. She did her undergraduate work at Harvard and received her Ph.D. from the Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of Toronto. She is a Professor of English at York University, where she has been teaching courses on Chaucer for the past 30 years. Her publications include Women and Mystical Experience in the Middle Ages and an edition and translation of Julian of Norwich’s Revelations of Divine Love.

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Kathryn McPherson is an associate professor in the Department of History and the School of Women's Studies at York University.

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