{"product_id":"sisters-or-strangers-9781442631106","title":"Sisters or Strangers","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSpanning more than two hundred years of history, from the eighteenth century to the twenty-first, Sisters or Strangers? explores the complex lives of immigrant, ethnic, and racialized women in Canada.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The volume is appropriate for a core text in seminars in Canadian or comparative immigrant women's history; for women's or immigration history courses; as a supplementary source of readings for courses in Canadian survey, women's, social, and gender history courses, or for multidisciplinary courses in women's and gender studies. The editors express their hope to inspire another generation of historians keen to explore and analyze the histories of immigrant, ethnic, and racialized women in Canada and beyond. Indeed.\" -- Anne Burke * \u003cem\u003eThe Prairie Journal of Canadian Literature\u003c\/em\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction  MARLENE EPP AND FRANCA IACOVETTA  PART ONE: Race, Crime, and Justice  A New Biography of the African Diaspora: The Odyssey of Marie-Joseph Angelique, Black Portuguese Slave Woman in New France, 1725-1734  AFUA COOPER  Unpacking the Discursive Irish Women Immigrant in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-century Newfoundland  WILLEEN KEOUGH  The Tale of Lin Tee: Madness, Family Violence, and Lindsay's Anti-Chinese Riot of 1919  LISA R. MAR    PART TWO: The Making of White Settler Societies  Turning Strangers into Sisters? Missionaries and Colonization in Upper Canada   CECILIA MORGAN  Whose Sisters and What Eyes? White Women, Race, and Immigration to British Columbia, 1849-1871  ADELE PERRY  Exclusion through Inclusion: Female Asian Migration in the Making of Canada as a White Settler Nation  ENAKSHI DUA    PART THREE: Letters and Tales of Settlement and Longing  Letters 'home' from Canada: British Female Emigrants and the Imperial Family of Women  LISA CHILTON  The Interplay of Ethnicity and Gender: Swedish Women in Southeastern Saskatchewan   LESLEY ERICKSON  From Montreal and Venice with Love: Migrant Letters and Romantic Intimacy in Italian Migration to Postwar Canada   SONIA CANCIAN    PART FOUR: Labouring Domestics and Canadian Constraints  In Search of Comfort and Independence: Irish Immigrant Domestic Servants Encounter the Courts, Jails, and Asylums in Nineteenth-Century Ontario  LORNA R. MCLEAN AND MARILYN BARBER  Taming and Training Greek \"Peasant Girls\" and the Gendered Politics of Whiteness in Postwar Canada: Canadian Bureaucrats and Immigrant Domestics, 1950s -1960s  NOULA MINA  I Care for You, Who Cares for Me? Transitional Services for Filipino Live-in Caregivers in Canada  GLENDA TIBE BONIFACIO    PART FIVE : Constructing Symbols and Bodies  Fashioning Conflicts: Gender, Power, and Icelandic Immigrant Hair and Clothing in North America, 1874-1933   LAURIE K. BERTRAM  A Larger Frame: 'Redressing' the Image of Doukhobor-Canadian Women in the Twentieth Century   ASHLEIGH ANDROSOFF  Propaganda and Identity Construction: Media Representation in Canada of Finnish and Finnish-Canadian Women during the Winter War of 1939-1940  VARPU LINDSTROM    PART SIX: Activists and Political Subjects  Canadian Citizens or Dangerous Foreign Women? Canada's Radical Consumer Movement, 1947-1950  JULIE GUARD  Haitian Feminist Diasporic Lakou: Haitian Women's Community Organizing in Montreal, 1960-1980  GRACE L. SANDERS JOHNSON  An Unlikely Collection of Union Militants? Portuguese Cleaning Women Become Political Subjects in Postwar Toronto  SUSANA MIRANDA     PART SEVEN: Food, Family, and Culture  The Semiotics of Zwieback: Feast and Famine in the Narratives of Mennonite Refugee Women  MARLENE EPP  Jello-O Salads, One-Stop Shopping, and Maria the Homemaker: The Gender Politics of Food  FRANCA IACOVETTA AND VALERIE J. KORINEK  Consuming Food and Constructing Identities among Arabic and South Asian Immigrant Women   HELEN VALLIANATOS AND KIM RAINE    PART EIGHT: History, Identity, and Belonging  'Slotting' Chinese Families and Refugees, 1947-1967   LAURA MADOKORO  Experience and Identity: Black Immigrant Nurses to Canada, 1950-1980  KAREN FLYNN  The Mother of God Wears a Maple Leaf: History, Gender, and Ethnic Identity in Sacred Space   FRANCES SWYRIPA    PART NINE: Trauma, Violence, and Memory  Survival Their Survival: Women, Memory and the Holocaust  PAULA J. DRAPER  Days You Remember: Japanese Canadian Women and the Violations of Internment  PAMELA SUGIMAN  Feminist Oral History and Assessing the Dueling Narratives of Iraqi Women in Diaspora  NADIA JONES-GAILANI","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408357499223,"sku":"9781442631106","price":73.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781442631106.jpg?v=1730502576","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/sisters-or-strangers-9781442631106","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}