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Book SynopsisThrough Feminist Eyes gathers in one volume the most incisiveand insightful essays written to date by the distinguished Canadianhistorian Joan Sangster. To the original essays, Sangster has addedextensive introductory discussions that situate her earlier work in thecontext of developing theory and debate. Sangster has also supplied anintroduction to the collection in which she reflects on the themes andtheoretical orientations that have shaped the writing of women'shistory over the past thirty years. Approaching her subject matter froman array of interpretive frameworks that engage questions of gender,class, colonialism, politics, and labour, Sangster explores the livedexperience of women in a variety of specific historical settings. In sodoing, she sheds new light on issues that have sparked much debateamong feminist historians and offers a thoughtful overview of theevolution of women's history in Canada.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements
Introduction
Reflections on Thirty Years of Women’s History
Discovering Women’s History
The 1907 Bell Telephone Strike
Organizing Women Workers
Looking Backwards
Re-assessing Women on the Canadian Left
The Communist Party and the Woman Question, 1922–1929
Manufacturing Consent in Peterborough
The Softball Solution
Female Workers, Male Managers, and the Operation of Paternalism atWestclox, 1923–1960
Pardon Tales’ from Magistrate’sCourt
Women, Crime, and the Court in Peterborough County,1920–1950
Telling Our Stories
Feminist Debates and the Use of Oral History
Foucault, Feminism, and Postcolonialism
Girls in Conflict with the Law
Exploring the Construction of Female ‘Delinquency’ inOntario, 1940–1960
Criminalizing the Colonized
Ontario Native Women Confront the Criminal Justice System,1920–1960
Constructing the ‘Eskimo’ Wife
White Women’s Travel Writing, Colonialism, and the CanadianNorth, 1940–1960
Embodied Experience
Words of Experience/Experiencing Words
Reading Working Women’s Letters to Canada’s RoyalCommission on the Status of Women
Making a Fur Coat
Women, the Labouring Body, and Working-class History
Publications by Joan Sangster
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