Includes bibliographical references.

Pt. 1. The founding mothers: Women traders in the Maritime fur trade / L. Littlefield ; Women in Iroquois society / E. Tooker ; The education of girls by the Ursulines of Quebec during the French regime / N. Fahmy-Eid ; "A woman's awakening": Evangelical belief and female spirituality in mid-nineteenth-century Canada / M. Van Die ; "Femmes fortes" and the Montreal poor in the early nineteenth century / J. Noel -- Pt. 2. The new pioneers: Native women of the northern pacific coast: an historical perspective, 1830-1900 / C. Cooper ; "The children, the cows, my dear man, and my sister": the transplanted lives of Mennonite farm women, 1874-1900 / R.K. Loewen ; Sweated labour: Female needleworkers in industrializing Canada / R. McIntosh ; Separate spheres in a separate world: African-Nova Scotian women in late-nineteenth-centruy Halifax County / S. Morton ; Providing a woman's conscience: The YWCA, female evangelicalism, and the girl in the city, 1870-1930 / D. Pedersen --

Pt. 3. The promised land? The end of the Great War to the beginning of World War II: Equality and difference: Feminism and the defence of women workers during the Great Depression / M. Hobbs ; "A thing of the past": Teaching in one-room schools in rural Nova Scotia, 1936-1941 /D.M. Hallman ; "If you had no money, you had no trouble, did you?": Montréal working-class housewives during the Great Depression / D. Baillargeon ; Mothering in a Newfoundland community: 1900-1940 / C. Benoit ; White female help and Chinese-Canadian employers: Race, class, gender, and law in the case of Yee Clun, 1924 / C. Backhouse ; Populism and gender: The UFA and Social Credit experiences / A. Finkel -- Pt. 4. The unfinished revolution: Women and income security in the postwar period: the case of unemployment insurance, 1945-1962 / A. Porter ; Remembering lesbian bars: Montreal, 1955-1975 / L. Chamberland ; Canada's immigration policy and domestics from the Caribbean / A. Calliste ; Race, class, gender, and work experience of South Asian immigrant women in Atlantic Canada / H. Ralston ; The politics of obstetric care: The Inuit experience / J. O-Neil and P.A. Kaufert.