Reading Canadian women's and gender history

Janoviček, Nancy, 1968- (editor.). Nielson, Carmen J., 1972- (editor.).

Summary: "Although Canadian womens history is now nearly forty years old, no volume exists that reflects explicitly upon the fields evolution and assesses its historiographical context. This retrospective is not merely summative; the essays in this collection are analytical engagements with the current state of the field, which draw on its rich past to generate new knowledge and propose innovative avenues for inquiry. The dual purposes of this collection are to contemplate the fields past and to contribute productively to its future. These thirteen original essays are written by scholars at all career stages. The diversity of these authors perspectives illustrates the contributions that Canadian scholarship has had in international dialogues about womens and gender history and that it continues to be a vibrant area of research. The collection includes chapters about the principal sub-fields in Canadian womens and gender history, including specialized chapters on Québecois, Indigenous, Black, and immigrant womens histories, religious history, labour history, war and society, history of sexuality, the history of reproductive labour and reproductive justice, two essays on the history of feminism that, taken together, cover the period from 1850 to the present, and a thematic essay on the colonial period."--

Record details

ISBN: 1442629711
ISBN: 9781442629714
Physical Description: viii, 349 pages : illustration ; 24 cm.
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Publisher: Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2019]
Copyright: ©2019

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Feminist conversations / Nancy Janovicek, Carmen Nielson -- Our historiographical moment: A conversation about Indigenous women's history in Canada in the early twenty-first century / Mary Jane Logan McCallum, Susan M. Hill -- Writing black Canadian women's history: Where we have been and where we are going / Karen Flynn, Funké Aladejebi -- Quebec nationalism and the history of women and gender / Denyse Baillargeon -- Class, race, and gender roles in early British North America / Katherine M.J. McKenna -- Performative (ir)rationality: Rethinking agency in Canadian histories of gender, religion, reason, and beyond / Beth A. Robertson -- Home fronts and front lines: A gendered history of war and peace / Tarah Brookfield, Sarah Glassford -- Historical feminisms in Canada to 1940: Further reflections on the so-called first wave / Nancy Forestell -- Never done: Feminists reinterpret their own history / Joan Sangster -- Beyond sisters or strangers: Feminist immigrant women's history and rewriting Canadian history / Marlene Epp, Franca Iacovetta -- Primal urge/national force: Sex, sexuality, and national history / Heather Stanley -- Challenging work: Feminist scholarship on women, gender, and work in Canadian history / Lisa Pasolli, Julia Smith -- Realizing reproductive justice in Canadian history / Shannon Stettner, Kristin Burnett, Lori Chambers -- List of contributors -- Index.