Overview

Through Feminist Eyes gathers in one volume the most incisiveand insightful essays written to date by the distinguished Canadianhistorian Joan Sangster. To the original essays, Sangster has addedextensive introductory discussions that situate her earlier work in thecontext of developing theory and debate. Sangster has also supplied anintroduction to the collection in which she reflects on the themes andtheoretical orientations that have shaped the writing of women’shistory over the past thirty years. Approaching her subject matter froman array of interpretive frameworks that engage questions of gender,class, colonialism, politics, and labour, Sangster explores the livedexperience of women in a variety of specific historical settings. In sodoing, she sheds new light on issues that have sparked much debateamong feminist historians and offers a thoughtful overview of theevolution of women’s history in Canada.

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Author:   Joan Sangster
Publisher:   AU Press
Imprint:   AU Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.660kg
ISBN:  

9781926836188

ISBN 10:   1926836189
Pages:   400
Publication Date:   01 May 2011
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements   Introduction Reflections on Thirty Years of Women’s History   Discovering Women’s History   The 1907 Bell Telephone Strike Organizing Women Workers   Looking Backwards Re-assessing Women on the Canadian Left   The Communist Party and the Woman Question, 1922–1929   Manufacturing Consent in Peterborough   The Softball Solution Female Workers, Male Managers, and the Operation of Paternalism atWestclox, 1923–1960   Pardon Tales’ from Magistrate’sCourt Women, Crime, and the Court in Peterborough County,1920–1950   Telling Our Stories Feminist Debates and the Use of Oral History   Foucault, Feminism, and Postcolonialism   Girls in Conflict with the Law Exploring the Construction of Female ‘Delinquency’ inOntario, 1940–1960   Criminalizing the Colonized Ontario Native Women Confront the Criminal Justice System,1920–1960   Constructing the ‘Eskimo’ Wife White Women’s Travel Writing, Colonialism, and the CanadianNorth, 1940–1960   Embodied Experience   Words of Experience/Experiencing Words Reading Working Women’s Letters to Canada’s RoyalCommission on the Status of Women   Making a Fur Coat Women, the Labouring Body, and Working-class History   Publications by Joan Sangster Publication Credits

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Joan Sangster is professor of women’s studies andhistory at Trent University, where she also teaches at the Frost Centrefor Canadian Studies and Indigenous Studies. Her many publicationsinclude Transforming Labour: Women and Work in Postwar Canadaand Girl Trouble: Female Delinquency in English Canada.

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