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Book SynopsisBreaking Barriers, Shaping Worlds explores the lives and careers of women, famous and forgotten, who influenced Canada's place in the world during the twentieth century.
Trade Review“This collection will prompt debate. It will prompt reflection. It will surely inspire future scholars to reframe Canadian international history around women and gender.” -- Asa McKercher, Royal Military College of Canada
“Emphasizing the importance of broad participative decision-making, of quiet compromises, and of local domestic work outside the elite world of official diplomats,
Breaking Barriers, Shaping Worlds adds to an exciting transformation in our official understanding of foreign policy and what it can achieve.” -- Isabel Campbell, National Defense Headquarters
Table of ContentsIntroduction: “Where are the Women?” / Jill Campbell-Miller & Greg Donaghy
Part 1: Women in Missions, Aid, and Development
1 Quietly Contesting Patriarchy: Dr. Jessie MacBean’s Medical Work in South China, 1925–35 / Kim Girouard
2 A Mission for Modernity: Canadian Women in Medical and Nursing Education in India, 1946–66 / Jill Campbell-Miller
3 Life Stories, Wife stories: Women Advisors on Economic Development / David Webster
Part 2: Women in International Resistance
4 Historically Invisible: The Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, 1914–29 / Sharon Cook and Lorna McLean
5 The Voice of Women, the Baby Tooth Survey, and the Search for Security in the Atomic Age / Susan Colbourn
6 Marie Smallface Marule: An Indigenous Internationalist / Jonathan Crossen
Part 3: Women in Diplomacy
7 P.K. Page and the Art of Diplomacy: An Ambassadorial Wife in Brazil / Eric Fillion
8 Jean Casselman Wadds: Patriation, Dinner Party Wars, and a Political Diplomat / Steve Marti and Francine McKenzie
9 Flora Macdonald: Secretary of State for External Affairs, 1979–80 / Joe Clark
Conclusion: Breaking Historiographic Barriers / Dominique Marshall
Epilogue – Greg Donaghy: An Appreciation / Patricia E. Roy
Bibliography; Contributors; Index
