{"product_id":"minds-of-our-own-inventing-feminist-scholarship-and-womens-studies-in-canada-and-quebec-1966-76-9781554580378","title":"Minds of Our Own: Inventing Feminist Scholarship and Women's Studies in Canada and Québec, 1966-76","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e This book of personal essays by over forty women and men who founded women's studies in Canada and Québec explores feminist activism on campus in the pivotal decade of 1966-76. The essays document the emergence of women's studies as a new way of understanding women, men, and society, and they challenge some current preconceptions about \"\"second wave\"\" feminist academics. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e The contributors explain how the intellectual and political revolution begun by small groups of academics - often young, untenured women - at universities across Canada contributed to social progress and profoundly affected the way we think, speak, behave, understand equality, and conceptualize the academy and an academic career. A contextualizing essay documents the social, economic, political, and educational climate of the time, and a concluding chapter highlights the essays' recurring themes and assesses the intellectual and social transformation that their authors helped set in motion. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e The essays document the appalling sexism and racism some women encounter in seeking admission to doctoral studies, in hiring, in pay, and in establishing the legitimacy of feminist perspectives in the academy. They reveal sources of resistance, too, not only from colleagues and administrators but from family members and from within the self. In so doing they provide inspiring examples of sisterly support and lifelong friendship. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The collection of brief, largely autobiographical pieces offers a taster 'menu' of feminist scholarship and women's studies in Canada, and an invitation to read more deeply in the field. A more comprehensive tasting would take up several thousand pages--as do the collecive works of the editors and contributors. The array of scholars and perspectives demonstrates the nature and extent of feminist and women's studies at a pivotal point in Canadian academic history. The preface and opening chapter, 'Changing Times', provide an overview of women's organizations, projects, and actions, and highlight educational and scholarly landmarks.... There are numerous reminders of the particular struggles women academics have survived.... Minds of Our Own offers a multifaceted view of an important chapter in academic history and inspiration and affirmation for women and feminist scholars who still struggle for acceptance, recognition and legitimacy. It should be required reading for administrators, and for all who persist in creating and maintaining obstacles to equality and freedom of enquiry.'\" -- Valerie Alia, Royal Roads University -- British Journal of Canadian Studies, Vol. 24, no. 1, 2011, 201110\u003cbr\u003e\"A vision and courage--that's all it took for a feminist revolution in academia! This is a book to remind people how this resolute group pulled it off. It will be an inspiration to young feminists as they face the future in our education institutions.\" -- Marjorie Griffin Cohen, Simon Fraser University -- 200805\u003cbr\u003e\"The stories are compelling, enthralling, and chilling...and make it clear that women's studies was born in struggle, both as an intellectual project and a political movement.... The anthology opens with a splendid integrated overview of women's history in Canada and Quebec over the remarkable decade. It has a bibliography to die for--a gift in itself... [A]s a record of a moment of joy and hopefulness, it stands as a glowing testimony of how women's studies and the women's liberation movement began as two branches of the same enterprise--wanting nothing less than to change the world.\" -- Susan Prentice -- 200910\u003cbr\u003e\"Certainly, the personal accounts of the people involved in the early Women's Studies movement are central to this book, but the introduction and the conclusion should be essential reading for anyone connected with Women's Studies. For those who were not there, or are too young to know, these sections emphasize that there was a time in Canada and Quebec when women could be denied employment or fired if they married, when birth control and abortion were illegal, and as Sandra Pyke tells it, when a married woman could only get credit in the name of her husband, when the ideology of marriage and motherhood had a powerful hold on women, when pay discrimination based on sex was legal, when women's education was narrowly defined, when Aboriginal women's experiences were all but ignored, and a time when sexual orientation was openly viewed as deviant. For those who were part of the Women's Studies revolution in the ten years covered here or who came to the discipline in its early years, these two chapters allow us to reflect on the many limitations women accepted. The emergence of Women's Studies shows that some women were willing to challenge the status quo.\" -- Margaret Kechnie, Laurentian University -- Historical Studies in Education, Fall 2010, 201101\u003cbr\u003e\"The aptly named Minds of Our Own is a page-turner. An opening chapter sketches the social, political, economic, and academic conditions under which the first Canadian Women's Studies projectts were launched. The conclusion outlines a series of themes that emerge across the core of the volume, comprise of more than forty brief but telling first-person narratives, some co-authored, all about 'inventing feminist scholarship' at various sites throughout the country between 1966 and 1976.... The gathered narratives are as compelling as the tale of editorial collaboration behind the work emblematic of growing networks among scholars in the field. Three parallel efforts to document Women's Studies' early years are brought together in this text, which offers an archive of personal reflections on a process of academic inquiry that continues to unearth the complexities of knowledge politics. The project is indebted to similar collections by American feminists but emphasizes the Canadian situation as unique. It acknowledges that anglo- and francophone environments for Women's Studies in Canada have remained distinctiv, that finding and generating locally relevant materials for study was both daunting and an on-going revelation from the start, and that there were and still are gaps in shared awareness about how diversely felt and situated the experiences of different communities of women remain in Canadian and international contexts. Graced by a cover that presents in textile art, a bitten pomegranate with at least one seed airborne off the page, the book invokes a time when enough critical mass had formed to defy western cultural interdictions against women's power to know in public and counterpublic ways.... Minds of Our Own lends itself to qualitative analyses that would unpack some of the affinities and contradictions that surface among and within accounts. In advance undergraduate classes, one could place selected narratives beside the galvanized feminist voices that took on poorly informed critiques of Women's Studies in the national media recently, or the untenable claim that gender equity has been achieved in Canada, even as the gender-based disparities abroad become a cornerstone of foreign policy. Minds of Our Own makes a useful contribution to the project of Canadian Women's Studies by detailing some of the groundbreaking strategies that formalized feminist academic inquiry in the mid- to late twentieth centuries. It points at once to past challenges and a\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eMinds of Our Own: Inventing Feminist Scholarship and Women's Studies in Canada and Québec, 1966-76\u003c\/i\u003e, edited by Wendy Robbins, Meg Luxton, Margrit Eichler, and Francine Descarries\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePREFACE\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cb\u003eCHANGING TIMES\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWomen's Organizations (before 1960)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWomen's Changing Social Position\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Women's Movement of the 1960s and 1970s\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWomen in Post-Secondary Education\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFeminist Scholarship and Women's Studies\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cb\u003eESSAYS\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCreating a Tradition of Canadian Women Writers and Feminist Literary Criticism  Clara Thomas\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMother Was Not a Person, So I Became a Feminist  Marguerite Andersen\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFanning Fires: Women's Studies in a School of Social Work  Helen Levine with Faith Schneider\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFeminism: A Critical Theory of Knowledge  Marie-Andrée Bertrand\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWomen's Studies: A Personal Story  Dorothy E. Smith\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eContributing to the Establishment of Women's Studies and Gender Relations  Anita Caron\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFeminism and a Scholarly Friendship  Jill Ker Conway and Natalie Zemon Davis\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMidwife to the Birth of Women's Studies at McGill  Margaret Gillett\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHow the Simone de Beauvoir Institute of Concordia University Grew from Unlikely Beginnings  Maïr Verthuy\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMoments in the Making of a Feminist Historian  Alison Prentice\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDoing Feminist Studies without Knowing It  Micheline Dumont\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA Matrix of Creativity  Frieda Forman\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTransforming the Academy and the World  Deborah Gorham\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eReminiscences of a Male Supporter of the Movement towards Women's Liberation  Leslie Marshall\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eYou Just Had To Be There  Greta Hofmann Nemiroff\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Second Wave: A Personal Voyage  Sandra Pyke\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA Lifetime of Struggling to Belong  Vanaja Dhruvarajan\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOnce Upon a Time There Was the Feminist Movement  Nadia Fahmy-Eid\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWomen's Studies at the University of Alberta  Rosalind Sydie, Patricia Prestwich, Dallas Cullen\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWomen's Studies and the Trajectory of Women in Academe  Annette Kolodny\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWomen's Studies at Simon Fraser University, 1966-76: A Dialogue  Andrea Lebowitz, Honoree Newcombe, Meredith M. Kimball\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNascent, Incipient, Embryonic, and Ceremonial Women's Studies  Linda Christiansen-Ruffman\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTo Challenge the World  Margrit Eichler\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFrom Male and Female Roles to Gender Relations: A Scientific and Political Trajectory  Danielle Juteau\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSecond Wave Breaks on the Shore of U of T  Lorna Marsden\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSurviving Political Science ... and Loving It  Jill Vickers\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBlood on the Chapel Floor: Adventures in Women's Studies  Kay Armatage\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGenesis of a Journal  Donna Smyth\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Saga  Marylee Stephenson\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eComing of Age with Women's Studies  Meredith M. Kimball\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDoing Women's Studies  Pat Armstrong\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePioneer in Feminist Political Economy: Overcoming the Disjuncture  Joan McFarland\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWomen's Studies at Guelph  Terry Crowley\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWomen's Studies: Oppression and Liberation in the University  Meg Luxton\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eReflections on Teaching and Writing Feminist Philosophy in the 1970s  Susan Sherwin\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFrom Marginalized to \"\"Establishment\"\": Doing Feminist Sociology  Maureen Baker\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\"\"To Ring True and Stand for Something\"\"  Wendy Robbins\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSocialist Feminist and Activist Educator  Linda Briskin\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMy Path to Feminist Philosophy, 1970-76  Christine Overall\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWomen's Sight: Looking Backwards into Women's Studies in Toronto  Ceta Ramkhalawansingh\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cb\u003ePERSONAL AND INTELLECTUAL REVOLUTION: SOME REFLECTIONS\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Patriarchal Context\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCountervailing Social Movements\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIntersections of Gender, Race, Class, Sexual Orientation\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eInventing a New Scholarship and New Structures\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDisciplinarity and\/or Interdisciplinarity\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eStudent-Teacher Relations\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePersonal Impacts\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eInteresting Times\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cb\u003eAPPENDIXES\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAppendix A. Alphabetical List of Authors\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAppendix B. List of Authors by Discipline\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cb\u003eNOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cb\u003eCUMULATIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eINDEX\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Wilfrid Laurier University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53188662493527,"sku":"9781554580378","price":38.21,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/minds-of-our-own-inventing-feminist-scholarship-and-womens-studies-in-canada-and-quebec-1966-76-9781554580378","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}