| Week of
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| Oct 6 | Introduction - Women and writing in Canada
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| Oct 13 | Self-expression
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| Sharon H. Nelson: "Scream"
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| Bronwen Wallace: "A Simple Poem for V.W."
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| Margaret Atwood: "Tricks with Mirrors"
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| Sylvia Maultash Warsh: "Renovating Maggie"
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| Oct 20 | Mothers
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| Cynthia Flood: "Roses Are Red"
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| G.P. Greenwood: "Hippopotamus"
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| Audrey Thomas: "Real Mothers"
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| Oct 27 | Families
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| Dionne Brand: "Photographs" (FIL)
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| Sandra Birdsell: "The Bird Dance"
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| Bronwen Wallace: "Chicken 'n' Ribs"
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| Nov 3 | Love and desire 1
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| Mary Di Michelle: "What is Desire?"
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| Claire Dé: "Desire as a Natural Catastrophe"
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| Aritha van Herk: "Eating Elephant"
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| Monique Proulx: "Feint of Heart"
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| Nov 17 | Love and desire 2
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| Margaret Atwood: "Variations on the Word Love"; "Variation on the Word Sleep"
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| Claire Martin: "Letter to Wether"
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| Barbara Gowdy: "Flesh of My Flesh"
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| Nov 24 | Mothers and Daughters
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| Miriam Packer: "The Death Dance"
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| Sara Jeanette Duncan: "A Mother in India"
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| Dec 1 | Identities
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| Carol Shields "Scenes" (FIL)
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| Gloria Sawai "The Day I Sat with Jesus"
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| Joyce Marshall "The Enemy"
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| Dec 8 | More families
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| Alice Munro: "Something I've Been Meaning to Tell You";
"The Moons of Jupiter"
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| Jan 5 | Age
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| Mavis Gallant "Irina"
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| Jan 12 | Death
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| Margaret Laurence The Stone Angel
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| Credit test - date to be decided on
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