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Book SynopsisFeeling Feminism is a groundbreaking collection of interdisciplinary scholarship on second-wave feminist history and feminist social movements in Canada that puts emotions at the centre of the story.
Trade Review...a fascinating collection of essays about second-wave feminist activism in Canada
-- Nancy Janovicek. University of Calgary * Social History/Histoire Sociale. *
To call this book thought-provoking is a profound understatement. -- Phyllis Reeve * The British Columbia Review *
Table of ContentsIntroduction: Second-Wave Feminism and the History of Emotions / Lara Campbell, Michael Dawson, and Catherine Gidney
1 Pride, Shame, and Anger: Women’s Struggles to Achieve Natural Childbirth in Postwar Canada / Whitney Wood
2 The Good Mother of Science: Emotional Letters to Frances Oldham Kelsey during the Thalidomide Crisis / Cheryl Krasnick Warsh
3 Therapeutic Political Spaces: Collective Resistance among Indigenous Women in British Columbia / Sarah A. Nickel
4 “Feeling My Way”: Women’s Community Activism in the Company of Young Canadians / Kevin Brushett
5 Tears and Tiaras: Affect, Beauty Pageants, and Protests / Patrizia Gentile
6 “Jesus Is Not Part of This Collective”: Secular Passions and Religious Alienation among the Sisterhood / Lynne Marks, Margaret Little, Marin Beck, Emma Paszat, and Taylor Antoniazzi
7 Intense Times: Love, Fear, and Pride as Guides to Lesbian Feminist Organizing / Liz Millward
8 Resisting Red Hot Video: Feminism, Pornography, and the Political Utility of Emotion / Eryk Martin
9 An Assumption of Shared Fear: Feminism, Sex Work, and the Sex Wars in 1980s Kinesis / Emma McKenna
10 Emotional Scripts of Difference: Black Women Teachers and Feminist Mobilization / Funké Aladejebi
11 “Briser le mur du silence”: Emotions, Gender, and the 1981 Women Journalists’ Conference in Quebec / Josette Brun, Laurie Laplanche, and Sophie Doucet
12 Anger, Melancholia, and Hope: The Feminist Politics of Emotion and the Centre for Women and Trans People at Wilfrid Laurier University / Matthew Fesnak
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