Reading Canadian Women S And Gender History

Author : Nancy Janovicek,Carmen Nielson
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2019-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442629714

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Reading Canadian Women's and Gender History by Nancy Janovicek,Carmen Nielson Pdf

Inspired by the question of "what's next?" in the field of Canadian women's and gender history, this broadly historiographical volume represents a conversation among established and emerging scholars who share a commitment to understanding the past from intersectional feminist perspectives. It includes original essays on Quebecois, Indigenous, Black, and immigrant women's histories and tackles such diverse topics as colonialism, religion, labour, warfare, sexuality, and reproductive labour and justice. Intended as a regenerative retrospective of a critically important field, this collection both engages analytically with the current state of women's and gender historiography in Canada and draws on its rich past to generate new knowledge and areas for inquiry.

Author : Veronica Jane Strong-Boag,Anita Clair Fellman
Publisher : Copp Clark Professional
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : History
ISBN : UVA:X001963517

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Rethinking Canada by Veronica Jane Strong-Boag,Anita Clair Fellman Pdf

Thoroughly revised and updated, this fourth edition, of Rethinking Canada: The Promise of Women's History is part of the continuing teminist effort to discover what it means to be women and Canadians. Rethinking Canada examines key developments in Canadian history -- from the founding of New, France to the present -- while at the same time highlighting the distinctive texture of women's experiences and identities. This decidedly non-traditional reconstruction of Canadian history focuses on the lives, struggles, and contributions of women, enlarging and diversifying the picture of the past found in conventional historical accounts. Of the 26 readings in this volume, 16 are new. Subjects range from the impact of colonialism on gender relations in Aboriginal societies; to the immigration of Japanese 'picture brides' in early twentieth-century British Columbia; to transnational political alliances formed by Canadian and Mexican women in response to NAFTA. Other topics include sexuality, workforce trends, gender and public policy, and much more. The selections aim, above all, to bring diverse and marginalized groups of women out of the historical shadows. The voices of First Nations women, women of colour, and immigrant women, for example, resound clearly in this volume. An informative introduction to each reading situates the article in its specific historical and historiographical context, and each introduction concludes with questions designed to stimulate analysis and discussion of the text. By presenting current scholarship in the context of three decades of research into Canadian women's history, Rethinking Canada, Fourth Edition, offers new and fascinating perspectives on women and on Canada. Book jacket.

Author : Joan Sangster
Publisher : Athabasca University Press
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781926836188

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Through Feminist Eyes by Joan Sangster Pdf

"Through Feminist Eyes gathers in one volume the most incisive and insightful essays written to date by the distinguished Canadian historian Joan Sangster. To the original essays, Sangster has added reflective introductory discussions that situate her earlier work in the context of developing theory and debate. Sangster has also supplied an introduction to the collection in which she reflects on the themes and theoretical orientations that have shaped the writing of women's history over the past thirty years. Approaching her subject matter from an array of interpretive frameworks that engage questions of gender, class, colonialism, politics, and labour, Sangster explores the lived experience of women in a variety of specific historical settings. In so doing, she sheds new light on issues that have sparked much debate among feminist historians and offers a thoughtful overview of the evolution of women's history in Canada."--Pub. desc.

Author : Joy Parr,Mark Rosenfeld
Publisher : Copp Clark
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : Canada
ISBN : 077305541X

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Gender and History in Canada by Joy Parr,Mark Rosenfeld Pdf

Author : Willeen G. Keough,Lara Campbell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2013-09-23
Category : Canada
ISBN : 0195443438

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Gender History by Willeen G. Keough,Lara Campbell Pdf

Combining primary and secondary sources with original discussions, Gender History examines the full range of gender experiences - past and present - beyond typical conceptions of masculinity and femininity. Addressing both the chronology and crucial themes of gender in Canada, this combination text/reader is an essential resource for understanding the evolution of the Canadian gender system.

Author : Bennett Yu-Hsiang Fu
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9789401208437

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Transgressive Transcripts by Bennett Yu-Hsiang Fu Pdf

Transgressive Transcripts examines the construction of women’s subjectivity and the textual production of Canadian female voices orchestrated in history, culture, ethnicity, and sexuality. The book, stressing the dissemination and re-inscription of femaleness and femininity in Chinese Canadian history, employs critical models that defy the sexual/textual imaginary of the Canadian literary scene. Four fields of study are conjoined: feminist theories of the body, gender and sexuality studies, women’s writing, and Asian North Amer¬ican studies. Analysing four writers, SKY Lee, Larissa Lai, Lydia Kwa, and Evelyn Lau, the book anchors its thematic and theoretical concern with female sexuality in the context of Chinese Canadian writing. Feminist narratives and gender politics in contemporary Asian North American literature are highlighted via the trope of ‘transgression’.

Author : Gail Cuthbert Brandt,Naomi Black,Paula Bourne,Magda Fahrni
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2010-12-13
Category : Women
ISBN : 0176500960

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Canadian Women by Gail Cuthbert Brandt,Naomi Black,Paula Bourne,Magda Fahrni Pdf

The substantially revised and updated third edition of Canadian Women: A History continues to be the only comprehensive survey of the contributions, struggles and achievements of Canadian women. Drawing on the latest historical research, as well as government documents and other archival material, the authors provide new insights into the diverse experiences of women in Canada from the sixteenth century to the present. The text explores the themes of migration, marriage, family life, work, education, politics, and culture in the lives of Canadian women by means of an accessible narrative enhanced by graphics and photos.

Author : Christabelle Sethna,Steve Hewitt
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2018-03-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780773553668

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Just Watch Us by Christabelle Sethna,Steve Hewitt Pdf

From the late 1960s to the mid-1980s, in the midst of the Cold War and second-wave feminism, the RCMP security service – prompted by fears of left-wing and communist subversion – monitored and infiltrated the women’s liberation movement in Canada and Quebec. Just Watch Us investigates why and how this movement was targeted, weighing carefully the presumed threat its left-wing ties presented to the Canadian government against the defiant challenge its campaign for gender equality posed to Canadian society. Based on a close reading of thousands of pages of RCMP documents declassified under Canada’s Access to Information Act and the corresponding Privacy Act, Just Watch Us demonstrates that the security service’s longstanding anti-Communist focus distorted its threat assessment of feminist organizing. Combining gender analysis and critical approaches to state surveillance, Christabelle Sethna and Steve Hewitt consider the machinations of the RCMP, including its bureaucratic evolution, intelligence-gathering operations, and impact, as well as the evolution of the women’s liberation movement from its broad transnational influences to its elusive quest for unity among women across lines of ideology and identity. Significantly, the authors also grapple with the historiographical, methodological, and ethical difficulties of working with declassified security documents and sensitive information. A sharp-eyed inquiry into spy policies and tactics in Cold War Canada, Just Watch Us speaks to the serious political implications of state surveillance for social justice activism in liberal democracies.

Author : Margaret Helen Hobbs,Carla Rice
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Feminism
ISBN : 088961511X

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Gender and Women's Studies in Canada by Margaret Helen Hobbs,Carla Rice Pdf

Author : Laine Zisman Newman
Publisher : Women’s Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2020-05-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780889616158

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Women and Popular Culture in Canada by Laine Zisman Newman Pdf

The first book of its kind, this volume explores women and non-binary people in popular culture in Canada, with a focus on intersectional analysis of settler colonialism, race, white privilege, ability, and queer representations and experiences in diverse media. The chapters include discussions of film, television, videogames, music, and performance, as well as political events, journalism, social media, fandom, and activism. Throughout this collection, readers are encouraged to think carefully about the role women play in the cultural landscape in Canada as active viewers, creators, and participants. Covering a wide range of topics from historical perspectives to recent events, media, and technologies, this collection acts as an introduction, an archive, and a continuing commitment to lifting the voices and stories of women and popular culture in Canada. This book is a must-read for gender studies and media studies courses that focus on popular culture, Canadian feminism, and Canadian media. FEATURES includes questions for critical thought that stimulate discussion focuses on intersections of race, gender, ability, and sexuality provides contemporary Canadian content from an interdisciplinary and intersectional lens

Author : Catherine Carstairs,Nancy Janovicek
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780774826228

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Feminist History in Canada by Catherine Carstairs,Nancy Janovicek Pdf

In the late 1970s, feminists urged us to "rethink" Canada by placing women's experiences at the centre of historical analysis. Forty years later, women's and gender historians continue to take up the challenge, not only to interrogate the idea of nation but also to place their work in a global perspective. This volume showcases the work of scholars who draw on critical race theory, postcolonial theory, and transnational history to re-examine familiar topics such as biography and oral history, paid and unpaid work, marriage and family, and women's political action. Taken together, these exciting new essays demonstrate the continued relevance of history informed by feminist perspectives.

Author : Sarah Carter
Publisher : University of Calgary Press
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 9781552381779

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Unsettled Pasts by Sarah Carter Pdf

The traditional mythology of the West is dominated by male images: the fur trader, the Mountie, the missionary, the miner, the cowboy, the politician, the Chief. Unsettled Pasts: Reconceiving the West claims to re-examine the West through women's eyes. It draws together contributions from researchers, scholars, and academic and community activists, and seeks to create dialogue across geographic, cultural, and disciplinary boundaries. Ranging from scholarly essays to poetry, these pieces offer the reader a sample of some of today's most innovative approaches to western Canadian women's history; several of the themes that run throughout the volume have only recently been critically addressed. By rewriting the West from the perspective of women, the contributors complicate traditional narratives of the region's past by contesting historical generalizations, thus transcending the myths and "frontier" legacies that emerged out of imperial and masculine priorities and perspectives. With Contributions by: Kristin Burnett Cristine Georgina Bye Sarah Carter Mary Leah De Zwart Lesley A. Erickson Cheryl Foggo Nadine I. Kozak Siri Louie Graham A. Macdonald Florence Melchior Patricia A. Roome Eliane Leslau Silverman Olive Stickney Aritha Van Herk Muriel Stanley Venne Cora J. Voyageur

Author : Marlene Epp,Franca Iacovetta
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 622 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2016-01-01
Category : Discrimination a l'égard des femmes
ISBN : 9781442629134

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Sisters or Strangers? by Marlene Epp,Franca Iacovetta Pdf

Spanning 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. Among the themes examined in this new edition are the intersection of race, crime, and justice, the creation of white settler societies, letters and oral histories, domestic labour, the body, political activism, food studies, gender and ethnic identity, and trauma, violence, and memory. The second edition of this influential essay collection expands its chronological and conceptual scope with fifteen new essays that reflect the latest cutting-edge research in Canadian women's history. Introductions to each thematic section include discussion questions and suggestions for further reading, making the book an even more valuable classroom resource than before.

Author : Alison L. Prentice
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UVA:X001594695

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Canadian Women by Alison L. Prentice Pdf

Author : Lesley Biggs,Susan Gingell,Pamela Downe
Publisher : Fernwood Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Feminism
ISBN : 1552664139

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Gendered Intersections by Lesley Biggs,Susan Gingell,Pamela Downe Pdf

Following the structure of the successful first edition of Gendered Intersections, this second edition examines the intersections across and between gender, race, culture, class, ability, sexuality, age and geographical location from the diverse perspectives of academics, artists and activists. Using a variety of mediums - academic research, poetry, statistics, visual essays, fiction, emails and music - this collection offers a unique exploration of gender through issues such as Aboriginal self-governance, poverty, work, spirituality, globalization and community activism. This new edition brings a greater focus on politics, and gender and the law. It also includes access to a Gendered Intersections website, which contains several performances by poets and a Gendered Intersections Quiz, which highlights the historical and contemporary contributions of women and non-hegemonic men to Canadian society.