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Article Excerpt
Susan Scott. All Our Sisters: Stories of Homeless Women in Canada. Peterborough, ON: Broadview Press, 2007. 210 pp. Notes. Photographs. $26.95 sc.
Canada is one of the few countries of the Western world without a social housing policy (16) and this book is about the effect such an omission has on some Canadian women. This is a heartbreaking book, not for the lighthearted, and it is not an easy read. It is mostly stories from the lives of women living on the margins of Canadian society. Most importantly, this is a book about the failure of our social services and shelters to meet the needs of the most vulnerable Canadian women; it is an indictment of homeless policies.
Two women, Doreen and Sheila, were Scott's"immediate catalysts" for the book. Knowing these women, Scott maintains, made her think...
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