Anne Innis Dagg. The Feminine Gaze:...

Anne Innis Dagg. The Feminine Gaze: A Canadian Compendium of Non-Fiction Women Authors and Their volumes 1836-1945. Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier UP 2001 346 pp ISBN 0-899-20355-5 $45CDN

Women's non-fiction in Canada has received scant attention, and to such a degree this volume is most welcome and timely. The editor, Anne Innis Dagg, bears the same of the most illustrious names in Canadian intellectual history--that of the political economist Harold Adams Innis--and is the inheritor of another, that of Mary Quayle Innis, about whom she writes, with integrity and passion: "as her daughter I