ALLways Learning Sabbatical Showcase - Feminism and the Office in Canadian Literature with Kait Pinder
February 27, 2026 (2:00 pm - 3:00 pm)
Location: K.C. Irving Environmental Centre Auditorium
This talk is part of the , which invites ALL members and members of our local community to join us for a free, casual lecture each Friday during the academic year (formerly Lunchtime Learning Series).
础产蝉迟谤补肠迟:鈥 This talk examines how feminism became a source of inspiration for Canadian writers in the early and mid-twentieth century by focusing on two now-canonical texts. J.G. Sime鈥檚 short story collection鈥疭ister Woman鈥(1919) and P.K. Page鈥檚 poem 鈥淭he Stenographers鈥 (1942) connect the labour of typists to the work of creative writing. In critiquing the gendered inequities of women鈥檚 paid labour, Sime and Page also comment on their own working conditions as writers and the patriarchal contexts in which their writing was received and valued.
Biography: Kait Pinder is an Associate Professor in Acadia鈥檚 Department of English and Theatre. Her research focuses on twentieth-century and contemporary Canadian literature. She has published on Leonard Cohen and Friedrich Nietzsche, Sheila Watson and Simone Weil, Margaret Laurence and the Vietnam War, and Tracey Lindberg and the ethics of care, among other authors and topics. Her鈥疘ntroduction to Feminisms in Canadian Literature, co-authored with Andrea Beverley (Mount Allison), is forthcoming from Routledge.