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Penney Kome is an award-winning Canadian author and journalist, and the former editor of ''Straight Goods'', a Canadian independent online newsmagazine.〔 (ei: Rabble, Straight Goods, Indymedia ) 〕 She posts articles to the journal (Facts and Opinions ), an employee-owned journalist cooperative, and blog posts to the On The Other Hand (OTOH) blog for ''rabble.ca'', a Canadian not-for-profit online outlet. ==Overview== Kome was born in Chicago in 1948 and raised in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Chicago. She later attended Shimer College, a small Great Books college then located in Mount Carroll, Illinois. She immigrated to Canada in 1968. She has published six books: ''Somebody Has To Do It: Whose Work Is Housework?'' shows how unpaid work underpins the paid workforce, like Marilyn Waring's ''If Women Counted'' but with 32 Canadian interviews (McClelland & Stewart, 1982); ''The Taking of Twenty-Eight: Women Challenge the Constitution'' a narrative account of a historic spontaneous national political campaign that introduced a new definition of equality to Canada and the world (Women's Press, 1983); ''Women of Influence: Canadian Women and Politics,'' an anecdotal account of Canadian women's quiet progress towards equality between suffrage and the Second Wave (Doubleday Canada, 1985); ''Peace: a Dream Unfolding'' (lavishly illustrated coffee table book with art, poetry and prose contrasting humans' innate yearning for peace with the horrors of modern nuclear weapons), co-edited with Patrick Crean; published by Sierra Club Books in the US and Lester & Orpen, Dennys in Canada, 1986); ''Every Voice Counts: A Canadian Woman's Guide to Initiating Political Action'' (Canadian Advisory Council on the Status of Women, 1989); and ''Wounded Workers: The Politics of Musculoskeletal Injuries,'' a fairly technical discussion of a common disabling workplace injury that threatens anyone who uses a computer (University of Toronto Press, 1998). Wrote the "Woman's Place" column in Homemaker's Magazine (circulation about 1 million nationally) from 1976 to 1988, and the "A Woman's View" column in the Calgary Herald, 1990-94. She is also the former President of the 270-unit Bain Apartment Co-operative, Inc (1982–83) and former National Chair of the 2000-member TWUC, The Writers Union of Canada (2003-2004). Awards include the Toronto YWCA Women of Distinction Award for Communications (1987) and the Robertine Barry Prize for Feminist Journalism (1984). She holds a Canada 125 medal (1992) from the federal government for "significant contributions" to Canadian culture. In 1987, Kome married Robert S Pond and moved from Toronto to Calgary, where they still reside. They have three grown children: Kimberley Pond Mcpherson, Sanford Kome-Pond and Graham Kome-Pond. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Penney Kome」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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