Overview

In the late 1970s, feminist historians urged us to ""rethink"" Canada by placing women's experiences at the centre of historical analysis. Forty years later, feminism continues to inform history writing and has inspired historians to look beyond the nation and adopt a more global perspective. This exciting new volume of original essays opens with a discussion of the themes and methodological approaches that have preoccupied historians over the past twenty years. The chapters that follow showcase the work of new and established scholars who draw on critical race theory, postcolonial theory, and transnational history to re-examine familiar topics such as biography and oral history, paid and unpaid work, marriage and family, and women's political action. Whether they focus on the marriage of Governor James Douglas and his Metis wife, Amelia, or on the experiences of Québécois domestic workers in the 1970s, the contributors demonstrate the continued relevance of history informed by feminist perspectives and open a much-needed dialogue between francophone and anglophone historians in Canada.

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Author:   Catherine Carstairs ,  Nancy Janovicek
Publisher:   University of British Columbia Press
Imprint:   University of British Columbia Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.460kg
ISBN:  

9780774826204

ISBN 10:   0774826207
Pages:   302
Publication Date:   01 July 2014
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Introduction: Productive Pasts and New Directions / Catherine Carstairs and Nancy Janovicek 1 James Douglas, Amelia Connolly, and the Writing of Gender and Women’s History / Adele Perry 2 Using Diaries to Explore the Shared Worlds of Family and Community in Nineteenth-Century New Brunswick / Gail G. Campbell 3 “A Little Offensive and Defensive Alliance”: Friendship, Professional Networks, and International Child Welfare Policy / Karen Balcom 4 ""The Necessity of Going"": Julia Grace Wales's Transnational Life as a Peace Activist and a Scholar / Lorna R. McLean 5 Feminist Ideals and Everyday Life: Professional Women's Feminism at Victoria College, University of Toronto, 1900-40 / Catherine Gidney 6 Singleness and Choice: The Impact of Age, Time, and Class on Three Female Youth Diarists in 1930s Canada / Heidi MacDonald 7 Sexual Spectacles: Saleswomen in Canadian Department Store Magazines between 1920 and 1950 / Donica Belisle 8 Gender and the Career Paths of Professors in the École de service social at Laval University, 1943-72 / Hélène Charron 9 Teaching June Cleaver, Being Hazel Chong: An Oral History of Gender, Race, and National ""Character"" / Kristina R. Llewellyn 10 The Ontario Women's History Network: Linking Teachers, Scholars, and History Communities / Rose Fine-Meyer 11 Fighting the “Corset of Victorian Prejudice”: Women's Activism in Canadian Engineering during the Pioneering Decades (1970s-80s) / Ruby Heap 12 Ad Hoc Activism: Feminist Citizens Respond to the Meech Lake Accord in New Brunswick / Anthony S.C. Hampton 13 To Help and to Serve: Women’s Career Paths in the Domestic Services Sector in Quebec City, 1960-2009 / Catherine Charron Contributors; Index

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... a thoughtful, well-written and ultimately convincing compilation of essays composed by leading scholars who have forever shaped the fields of women's and gender history in Canada ... this collection evocatively features works that demonstrate the important contributions women have made to the economic, social and cultural realm of Canada. With a strong focus on biography, the authors present a unique flare to Canadian feminist history, offering rich descriptions of various conditions, interactions and experiences faced by individual and collective groups of women over time. This anthology focuses on a wide range of issues and explores a variety of important themes, covering the latest debates in the field and providing thought-provoking analysis to questions that have long interested feminist historians. -- Vanessa Lovisa, McMaster University * Histoire sociale I Social History, Vol. 48, No. 96, May 2015 *

... a thoughtful, well-written and ultimately convincing compilation of essays composed by leading scholars who have forever shaped the fields of women's and gender history in Canada ... this collection evocatively features works that demonstrate the important contributions women have made to the economic, social and cultural realm of Canada. With a strong focus on biography, the authors present a unique flare to Canadian feminist history, offering rich descriptions of various conditions, interactions and experiences faced by individual and collective groups of women over time. This anthology focuses on a wide range of issues and explores a variety of important themes, covering the latest debates in the field and providing thought-provoking analysis to questions that have long interested feminist historians. -- Vanessa Lovisa, McMaster University Histoire sociale I Social History, Vol. 48, No. 96, May 2015

Author Information

Catherine Carstairs teaches history at the University of Guelph. She is the author of Jailed for Possession: Illegal Drug Use, Regulation and Power in Canada, 1920-1961 (2006). Nancy Janovicek teaches history at the University of Calgary. She is the author of No Place to Go: Local Histories of the Battered Women's Shelter Movement (UBC Press, 2007).

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