{"product_id":"feminist-history-in-canada-9780774826198","title":"Feminist History in Canada","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis new collection of original research demonstrates the continued relevance of the feminist history project in Canada.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e... a thoughtful, well-written and ultimately convincing compilation of essays composed by leading scholars who have forever shaped the fields of women's and gender history in Canada ... this collection evocatively features works that demonstrate the important contributions women have made to the economic, social and cultural realm of Canada. With a strong focus on biography, the authors present a unique flare to Canadian feminist history, offering rich descriptions of various conditions, interactions and experiences faced by individual and collective groups of women over time. This anthology focuses on a wide range of issues and explores a variety of important themes, covering the latest debates in the field and providing thought-provoking analysis to questions that have long interested feminist historians.\u003c\/p\u003e -- Vanessa Lovisa, McMaster University * Histoire sociale I Social History, Vol. 48, No. 96, May 2015 *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Productive Pasts and New Directions \/ \u003cem\u003eCatherine Carstairs and Nancy Janovicek\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1 James Douglas, Amelia Connolly, and the Writing of Gender and Women’s History \/ \u003cem\u003eAdele Perry\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2 Using Diaries to Explore the Shared Worlds of Family and Community in Nineteenth-Century New Brunswick \/ \u003cem\u003eGail G. Campbell\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3 “A Little Offensive and Defensive Alliance”: Friendship, Professional Networks, and International Child Welfare Policy \/ \u003cem\u003eKaren Balcom\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e4 \"The Necessity of Going\": Julia Grace Wales's Transnational Life as a Peace Activist and a Scholar \/ \u003cem\u003eLorna R. McLean\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e5 Feminist Ideals and Everyday Life: Professional Women's Feminism at Victoria College, University of Toronto, 1900-40 \/ \u003cem\u003eCatherine Gidney\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e6 Singleness and Choice: The Impact of Age, Time, and Class on Three Female Youth Diarists in 1930s Canada \/ \u003cem\u003eHeidi MacDonald\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e7 Sexual Spectacles: Saleswomen in Canadian Department Store Magazines between 1920 and 1950 \/ \u003cem\u003eDonica Belisle\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e8 Gender and the Career Paths of Professors in the École de service social at Laval University, 1943-72 \/ \u003cem\u003eHélène Charron\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e9 Teaching June Cleaver, Being Hazel Chong: An Oral History of Gender, Race, and National \"Character\" \/ \u003cem\u003eKristina R. Llewellyn\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e10 The Ontario Women's History Network: Linking Teachers, Scholars, and History Communities \/ \u003cem\u003eRose Fine-Meyer\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e11 Fighting the “Corset of Victorian Prejudice”: Women's Activism in Canadian Engineering during the Pioneering\u003cbr\u003eDecades (1970s-80s) \/ \u003cem\u003eRuby Heap\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e12 Ad Hoc Activism: Feminist Citizens Respond to the Meech Lake Accord in New Brunswick \/ \u003cem\u003eAnthony S.C. Hampton\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e13 To Help and to Serve: Women’s Career Paths in the Domestic Services Sector in Quebec City, 1960-2009 \/ \u003cem\u003eCatherine Charron\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eContributors; Index\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of British Columbia Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49404928917847,"sku":"9780774826198","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/feminist-history-in-canada-9780774826198","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}