Title
Reading Canadian Women's and Gender History
Abstract
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. --Publisher's description
Series
Studies in gender and history
Publisher
University of Toronto Press
# of Pages
viii, 349 pages: illustrations
Library Catalog
Open WorldCat
Notes
Contents: Introduction: Feminist Conversations / Nancy Janovicek and Carmen Nielson -- 1. Our Historiographical Moment: A Conversation about Indigenous Women’s History in Canada in the Early Twenty-First Century / Mary Jane Logan McCallum and Susan M. Hill -- 2. Writing Black Canadian Women’s History: Where We have Been and Where We are Going / Karen Flynn and Funke Aladejebi -- 3. Le Québec, l’histoire des femmes et du genre et la question nationale / Denyse Baillargeon -- 4. Class, Race, and Gender Roles in Early British North America / Katherine M.J. McKenna -- 5. Performative (Ir)rationality: Rethinking Agency in Canadian Histories of Gender, Religion and Beyond/ Beth A. Robertson -- 6. Home Fronts and Frontlines: A Gendered History of War and Peace / Tarah Brookfield and Sarah Glassford -- 7. Historical Feminisms in Canada to 1940: Further Reflections on the So-Called First Wave / Nancy Forestell -- 8. Never Done: Feminists Reinterpret Their Own History / Joan Sangster -- 9. Beyond Sisters or Strangers: Writing Feminist Histories of Immigrant Women in Canada and Rewriting Canadian History / Marlene Epp and Franca Iacovetta -- 10. Primal Urge/National Force: Sex, Sexuality and National History / Heather Stanley -- 11. Challenging Work: Feminist Scholarship on Women, Gender, and Work in Canadian History / Lisa Pasolli and Julia Smith -- 12. Realizing Reproductive Justice in Canadian History / Shannon Stettner, Kristin Burnett, and Lori Chambers.
Citation
Janoviček, N., & Nielson, C. J. (Eds.). (2019). Reading Canadian Women’s and Gender History. University of Toronto Press. https://utorontopress.com/9781442629714/reading-canadian-women-and-x2019s-and-gender-history/