Description
Book SynopsisThis engaging collection of essays seeks to create an awareness of the contributions made by women to history and the historical profession from 1870 to 1970 in English Canada.
Trade ReviewThe editors convincingly show that for many of these women, history was a tool to demonstrate political or moral lessons ... The book illuminates professions and universities, and elegantly delivers the editors' promise to analyze historical consciousness. * Canadian Historical Review *
... together [the essays] provide a coherent sense of the challenges facing women who dared to approach the throne of historical inquiry ... the contributors to this volume have done more than add women to the historiographical canon; they helped to redefine the canon itself. They have also produced a very readable volume, a testimony to the historiographical shift toward a narrative style that makes this book accessible to more than just a few 'scientific' historians. -- Margaret Conrad * Canadian Book Review Annual *
... one of the best-edited collections of historical writing that I have read for some time....It is chapters such as these that not only make this book but provide very useful additons to course reading lists as examples of well researched and written biographical case studies and institutional histories ... Overall, ... this is a collection of women's history that should be on the shelves of a university library. -- Lynne Trethewey * History of Education Review *
Table of ContentsIntroduction: Locating Women in the Work of History / BeverlyBoutilier and Alison Prentice
Part 1: Community Building
Cultivating a Love of Canada through History: Agnes Maule Machar,1837-1927 / Dianne M. Hallman
Women's Rights and Duties: Sarah Anne Curzon and the Politics ofCanadian History / Beverly Boutilier
The Ontario Women's Institutes and the Work of Local History /Linda Ambrose
Part 2: Transitions
'Writing Teaches Us Our Mysteries': Women ReligiousRecording and Writing History / Elizabeth Smythe
'I walk my own track in life & no mere male can bump me offit': Constance Lindsay Skinner and the Work of History / JeanBarman
Isabel Skelton: Precursor to Canadian Cultural History / TerryCrowley
Part 3: The Academy
Laying Siege to the History Professoriate / AlisonPrentice
A View from the Front Steps: Esther Clark Wright and the Making of aMaritime Historian / Barry M. Moody
Kathleen Wood-Legh: A Canadian in Cambridge / Megan Davies andColin Coates
Part 4: New Departures
Women's History: Founding a New Field / DeborahGorham
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