Having won the Vancity Book Prize for writing about courageous and unconventional women, Rosemary Neering has looked appreciatively at the contributions of courageous and conventional homemakers in The Canadian Housewife: An Affectionate History (Whitecap $29.95), a cornucopia of coping with insects, recipes, canning, children, paternalism and Lysol for birth control. 1-55285-717-4

[BCBW 2006]