Seeking Balance: Conversations with BC Women in Politics .

Chronicles and Interviews with 75 Women who have served BC as MPs and MLAs

Richmond and Vancouver on Friday, November 28 , 2008.

Richmond:

2:00 pm at Hon. Linda Reid’s Constituency Office, 8040 Garden City Road , Unit 130

Vancouver:

5:30-7:30 pm at the home of Darlene Marzari

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Victoria, Thursday, November 27 :

12:00 pm, Ned de Beck Lounge, Rm 357 of the Parliament Buildings, Victoria

Both Lotus Books and Katrina’s Book Store in Cranbrook will be hosting signings in early December.

In Seeking Balance , Anne Edwards shares her conversations with more than eighty British Columbia women politicians, including Rita Johnston , Rosemary Brown , Grace McCarthy , Kim Campbell , Pat Carney , Darlene Marzari, Joy MacPhail and Carole James . These women who served as members of the provincial legislature or the Canadian parliament reveal their ambitions and their reactions to serving in a political system designed and dominated by men. Women struggle to find their place in the pyramids of power. They reach decisions in ways untraditional to Canadian politics; they bring ideas to a system ill-suited to respond; and they see clearly the jagged edges that should be smoothed in order to create a vibrant democratic state. These women–of many ages, across party lines and from all parts of the province–share attitudes and insights into the lively world of British Columbia politics , at home and aross our nation.

Anne Edwards was born, raised and educated in middle Saskatchewan . She has worked as a journalist in radio, television and newspapers and as a freelance writer for various magazines. She has co-written three published books: Exploring the Purcell Wilderness, Cranbrook 1905-2005 , and The Purcell Suite: Upholding the Wild . She has lived for fifty years in British Columbia where she raised a family of four, instructed and managed at the College of the Rockies for a decade and represented Kootenay constituency for ten years as MLA. She retired from politics and the working world in 1996. She lives in Moyie, British Columbia .