In which we discuss the time the Canadian government asked itself: 'wait... are [white] women people?' For real though... We compare that event to two P.K. Page poems.
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Sources/Further Reading
Brandt, Gail, et al. Canadian Women: A History, 2011.
Hamilton, Sheryl. Impersonations: Troubling the Person in Law and Culture, 2013.
Irvine, Dean J. Editing Modernity: Women and Little-Magazine Cultures in Canada, 1916–1956, 2008.
Killian, Laura. “Poetry and the Modern Woman: P.K. Page and the Gender of Impersonality,” Canadian Literature 150, 1996, pp. 86–105.
Page. P.K. "After Rain" and "Nightmare".
Sharpe, Robert J. and Patricia I. McMahon. The Persons Case: The Origins and Legacy of the Fight for Legal Personhood, 2007.
