Critical and controversial, this collection of essays begins the task of exploring the ways in which the arts in Canada have responded over the past decade to the challenge of feminism. It gives voice to some of the struggles Canadian women have experienced positioning themselves as women, as feminists, as cultural producers.
Each article focuses on a specific cultural discipline: literature, film, video, theatre, the visual arts, and architecture.
No such forum on women in Canada has existed in book form before. Until publication of this ground-breaking anthology, the documentation of what is now a vigorous and expanding artistic practice was both sparse and ephemeral.
All of the writers capture the excitement of new visions being forged for and by trail-blazing feminist artists.

Rhea Tregebov is the author of seven critically acclaimed books of poetry, most recently All Souls' (Wolsak & Wynn, 2019). She has also published five popular children's picture books including The Big Storm and What-If Sara, which are set in Winnipeg. She has edited ten anthologies of essays, poetry and fiction, most recently Arguing with the Storm. Her work has received a number of literary prizes, including the Nancy Richler Award for fiction (for Rue des Rosiers) as well as the Segal , Prairie Schooner Readers' Choice Award, and the Malahat Review Long Poem Award for her poetry. Rue des Rosiers is her second novel. The Knife Sharpener’s Bell, her first, won the J.I. Segal Prize in English Fiction. Born in Saskatoon and raised in Winnipeg, Tregebov lived for many years in Toronto, working as a freelance writer, editor, and instructor. From 2005 to 2017 she taught Creative Writing at UBC. She is now an Associate Professor Emerita at UBC. 

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