La Voyageuse et la Prisonniere: Gabrielle Roy et la question des femmes.(Book Review)

Lori Saint-Martin, La Voyageuse et la Prisonniere: Gabrielle Roy et la question des femmes. Montreal: Boreal, 2002. 390 pp. $29.95 paper.

Although Lori Saint-Martin's book is intriguingly subtitled "Gabrielle Roy and the question of women," it could more simply be entitled "The Feminism of Gabrielle Roy." Roy's feminist concerns have always been evident to scholars raised on the American Women's Studies curriculum--and, according to Saint-Martin, American feminist critics like Paula Gilbert Lewis were, in 1979, among the first to write about feminism in Roy's ...

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