Rethinking Canada : the promise of women's history
Record details
- ISBN: 0195431723
- ISBN: 9780195431728
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Physical Description:
xi, 460 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
print - Edition: Sixth edition.
- Publisher: Don Mills, Ont. : Oxford University Press, [2011].
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | 'They are the life of the nation': women and war in traditional Nadouek society / Kathryn Magee -- 'Nagging wife' revisited: women and the fur trade in New France / Jan Noel -- Gender, family, and mutual assistance in New France: widows, widowers, and orphans I eighteentn-century Quebec / Josette Bruin -- The 'old hag' revisits St Brigid: Irish Newfoundland women and spirituality on the Southern Avalon / Willeen Keough -- Acts of resistance: black men and women engage slavery in Upper Canada, 1793-1803 / Afua Cooper -- Bonds of friendship, kinship, and community: gender, homelessness, and mutual aid in early nineteenth-century Montreal / Mary Anne Poutanen -- The women's lodge: constructing gender on the nineteenth-century Pacific Northwest Plateau / Mary C. Wright-- Women at the hustings: gender, citizenship, and the Montreal by-elections of 1832 / Bettina Bradbury -- Sewing for a living: the commodification of Métis women's artistic production / Sherry Farrell Racette -- 'A fragment of heaven on Earth?': religion, gender, and family in turn of-the-century Canadian church periodicals / Lynne Marks -- Exclusion through inclusion: female Asian migration in the making of Canada as a white settler nation / Enakshi Dua -- Divided by the ballot box: the Montreal Council of Women and the 1917 election / Tarah Brookfield -- Sexual assault and disability: Saskatchewan, 1942 / Constance Backhouse -- Front lines and frontiers: war and legitimate work for nurses, 1939-1946 / Cynthia Toman -- Passing time, moving memories: interpreting wartime narratives of Japanese-Canadian women / Pamela Sugiman -- Recipes for democracy?: gender, family, and making female citizens in Cold War Canada / Franca Iacovetta -- Rethinking class in lesbian bar culture: living 'the gay life' in Toronto, 1955-1965 / Elise Chenier -- Québécoises deboutte!: nationalism and feminism in Quebec, 1969-1975 / Sean Mills -- Spectacular striptease: performing the sexual and racial other in Vancouver, B.C., 1945-1975 / Becki Ross and Kim Greenwell -- Women's class strategies as activism in Native community building in Toronto, 1950-1975 / Heather Howard -- The evolution of the Birth Control Handbook: from student peer-education manual to feminist self-empowerment, 1968-1975 / Christabelle Sethna -- Whose social reproduction?: transnational motherhood and challenges to feminist political economy / Sedef Arat-Koç -- Gender, sovereignty, and the discourse of rights in Native women's activism / Joanne Barker. |
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Subject: | Women -- Canada -- History -- Sources Women -- Canada -- History Women -- Canada -- Social conditions Femmes -- Canada -- Histoire Femmes -- Canada -- Conditions sociales |
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Circulation Modifier | Holdable? | Status | Due Date | Courses |
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Castlegar Campus Library | HQ 1453 R48 2011 (Text)
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