Women Who Work
In response to the Electric Lit article, "Where Are All the Memoirs About Women and Work?" we made a list. Naturally!
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Journeywoman
Swinging a Hammer in a Man's World
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My Mother's Daughter
A Memoir
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Whenever You’re Ready
Nora Polley on Life as a Stratford Festival Stage Manager
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Bomb Girls
Trading Aprons for Ammo
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Mothers and Others
The Role of Parenthood in Politics
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Light Years
Memoir of a Modern Lighthouse Keeper
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Eating Dirt
Deep Forests, Big Timber, and Life with the Tree-Planting Tribe
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Mudgirls Manifesto
Handbuilt Homes, Handcrafted Lives
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Mayann Francis
An Honourable Life
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Shrewed
A Wry and Closely Observed Look at the Lives of Women and Girls
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In Other Words
How I Fell in Love with Canada One Book at a Time
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It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time
Ten Years of Misadventures in Coffee
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Pursuing Giraffe
A 1950s Adventure
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Bet On Me
Leading and Succeeding in Business and in Life
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Outsiders Still
Why Women Journalists Love - and Leave - Their Newspaper Careers
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Gumboot Girls
Adventure, Love & Survival on the North Coast of British Columbia
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On Mockingbird Hill
Memories of Dharma Bums, Madcaps and Fire Lookouts
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Dirty Work
My Gruelling, Glorious, Life-changing Summer In the Wilderness
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Female Doctors in Canada
Experience and Culture
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The Ursula Franklin Reader
Pacifism as a Map
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A Woman in Engineering
Memoirs of a Trailblazer. An Autobiography by Monique (Aubry) Frize
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Into the Planet
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Always Pack a Candle
A Nurse in the Cariboo-Chilcotin