Rethinking Canada : the promise of women's history

Perry, Adele, (editor.). Myers, Tamara, 1964- (editor). Gleason, Mona, 1964- (editor).

Summary: "Rethinking Canada is a collection of essays on the diverse lives, struggles, and contributions of women in Canadian history. Now in its sixth edition, this trusted text includes articles spanning from the 1600s to the present day. Eighteen new essays offer increased coverage of indigenous, immigrant, and racialized experiences; work and labour; sexuality and the body; religion and spirituality; politics; and shifts in regional analysis. Recent scholarship and fresh editorial commentaries combine to create an invaluable introduction not only to Canadian women's history, but also to the study of Canadian history as a whole." --

Record details

ISBN: 0195431723
ISBN: 9780195431728
Physical Description: xi, 460 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
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Edition: Sixth edition.
Publisher: Don Mills, Ont. : Oxford University Press, [2011].

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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'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.