Rethinking Canada: The Promise of Women's History

Contents: Primary document: Speech of Good Peter, 1788 -- "They are the life of the nation": Women and war in traditional Nadouek society / Kathryn Labelle -- Primary document: The selected letters of Marie de l'Incarnation -- Native American women and religion in the American colonies: Textual and visual traces of an imagined community / Mónica Díaz -- Primary document: An eighteenth-century visit to New France, 1752 -- "Fertile with fine talk": Ungoverned tongues among Haudenosaunee women and their neighbours / Jan Noel -- Primary document: Knox's historical journal -- Cloistered bodies: Convents in the Anglo-American imagination in the British conquest of Canada / Ann M. Little -- Primary document: Concerning Marguerite Guédry (letters from Thomas Guédry, 1754) -- Speaking for herself? Acadiennes communicating identity in eighteenth-century Île Royale / Anne Marie Lane Jonah -- Primary document: Petition of Adam Vrooman, 18 April, 1793 -- Acts of resistance: Black men and women engage slavery in Upper Canada, 1793-1803 / Afua Cooper -- Primary document: Deposition of Marie [Mary] Burke, 1832 -- Bonds of friendship, kinship, and community: Gender, homelessness, and mutual aid in early-nineteenth-century Montreal / Mary Anne Poutanen -- Primary document: Appendix to the journals of the House of Assembly of the province of Lower-Canada -- Women at the Hustings: Gender, citizenship, and the Montreal by-elections of 1832 / Bettina Bradbury -- Primary document: Native woman loading freight at Richmond Gulf landing stage, 1927 -- Nimble fingers and strong backs: First Nations and Métis women in fur trade and rural economies / Sherry Farrell Racette -- Primary document: Susanna Moodie, Roughing it in the bush -- Women's agency in Upper Canada: Prescott's Board of Police record, 1834-1850 / Katherine M.J. McKenna -- Primary document: Graduating class of 1889, Acadia Ladies Seminary -- "Ushered into the kitchen": Lalia Halfkenny, instructor of English and elocution at a nineteenth-century African American women's college / Jennifer Harris -- Primary document: The Globe (Toronto), 1914 -- Exclusion through inclusion: Female Asian migration in the making of Canada as a white settler nation / Enakshi Dua -- Primary document: Dr Grace Ritchie-England's letter endorsing Sir Wilfrid Laurier, 1917 -- Divided by the ballot box: the Montreal Council of Women and the 1917 election / Tarah Brookfield -- Primary document: Provincial Archives of Manitoba (PAM), Anne Ross papers, 19 June 1948, and Toronto Daily Star, 13 January 1948 -- The politics of milk: Canadian housewives organize in the 1930s / Julie Guard -- Primary document: Unidentified nursing sister storing supplies, 1943 -- Front lines and frontiers: war and legitimate work for nurses, 1939-1945 / Cynthia Toman -- Primary document: Sugiman family collection -- "A million hearts from here": Japanese-Canadian mothers and daughters and the lessons of war / Pamela Sugiman -- Primary document: "Why wives are going out to work" -- Gender, ethnicity, and immigrant women in postwar Canada: The Dionne textile works / Joan Sangster -- Primary document: RCMP report, Vancouver Women's Caucus, 21 April 1970 -- Clandestineoperations: the Vancouver Women's Caucus, the Abortion Caravan and the RCMP / Christabelle Sethna and Steve Hewitt -- Primary document: Toronto Daily Star, 31 March 1967 -- Women's class strategies as activism in Native community building in Toronto, 1950-1975 / Heather A. Howard -- Primary document: Brief to the Royal Commission on the Status of Women, 1968 -- Québécoises deboutte! Nationalism and feminism in Quebec, 1969-1975 / Sean Mills -- Primary document: Cross-roads -- Making a scene: struggles over lesbian place-making in Anglophone Canada, 1964-1984 / Liz Millward -- Primary document: Vancouver Sun, 3 March 1983 -- Sex and (evacuation from) the city: The moral and legal regulation of sex workers in Vancouver's West End, 1975-1985 / Becki L. Ross -- Primary document: The Gazette (Montreal), 20 February 2000 -- Gendering Terror Post-9/11 / Yasmin Jiwani -- Primary document: United Nations Human Rights Committee decision on the Lovelace Case, 1979 -- Gender, sovereignty, and the discourse of rights in Native women's activism / Joanne Barker.