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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 54. Chapters: Canadian feminists, Ursula Franklin, Peaches, Ellen Page, Emily Murphy, Muriel Duckworth, Irshad Manji, Agnes Macphail, G. B. Jones, Daphne Marlatt, Marian Engel, Nellie McClung, Lorraine Michael, Rita MacNeil, Lisa Robertson, Linda Hutcheon, Maude Barlow, Kathleen O'Grady, The Famous Five, Rae Luckock, Toronto Women's Bookstore, Therese Casgrain, Wendy McElroy, Chaviva Ho ek, Savella Stechishin, Maureen McTeer, Louise McKinney, Doris Anderson, Judy Rebick, Skyla Dawn Cameron, Federation des femmes du Quebec, Margaret Mitchell, Francoise Loranger, Emily Stowe, Mary Ellen Smith, Margaret Christakos, Eleanor Wachtel, Carrie Derick, Jill Vickers, Svetlana Sotiroff MacDonald, Grace Jantzen, Francoise David, Marie Lacoste Gerin-Lajoie, Laura Sabia, Mary Meigs, Elizabeth Parker, Isobel Warren, Roberta MacAdams, Martha Bielish, Simonne Monet-Chartrand, Alice Jamieson, Janine O'Leary Cobb, Henrietta Edwards, Jerilynn Prior, Gunilla Ekberg, Mary Elizabeth Kinnear, Evelyn Lett, Andrea O'Reilly, Lola Lemire Tostevin, Augusta Stowe-Gullen, Yvette Boucher Rousseau, Grace MacInnis, Hannah Gale, Betsy Struthers, Christine Welsh, Francine Pelletier, Shannon Bell, Patricia Monture, Sandy Shreve, Joanna Manning, Donna Laframboise, Homa Arjomand. Excerpt: Ursula Martius Franklin, (born September 16, 1921 in Munich, Germany), is a Canadian metallurgist, research physicist, author and educator who has taught at the University of Toronto for more than 40 years. She is the author of The Real World of Technology, which is based on her 1989 Massey Lectures, and The Ursula Franklin Reader: Pacifism as a Map, a collection of her papers, interviews, and talks. Franklin is a practising Quaker and has been active in working on behalf of pacifist and feminist causes. She has written and spoken extensively about the futility of war and the connect...