Rethinking Canada
The Promise of Women's History
4th Edition
Published on 18. September 2003
Book
Paperback/Softback
428 pages
978-0-19-541728-9 (ISBN)
Description
The fourth edition of Rethinking Canada is representative of the most interesting work done in Canadian and women's history. Including sixteen new essays, this volume boasts the strongest English collection in terms of women and Quebec history and the history of First Nations Peoples. In addition, there are articles on Japanese picture brides, Mennonite refugee women and migrant workers, civilian women during the Second World War, women in northern Canada, and lesbian women in Chatelaine magazine. Recent additions to the text also address the significance of globalization for women's international politics. The editors have carefully balanced the considerations of region, class, and ethnicity, as well as, time period to achieve a collection that covers the broadest possible sweep of Canadian history.
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Edition
4th ed.
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
New edition
Illustrations
4 Fotos bzw. Rasterbilder, 7 Tabellen
4 halftones, 7 tables
Dimensions
Height: 228 mm
Width: 177 mm
Weight
679 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-541728-9 (9780195417289)
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Content
Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Kateri Tekawitha's Torturous Path to Sainthood; 2. '...sauf les perils et fortunes de la mer': Merchant Women in New France and the French Transatlantic Trade, 1713-1746; 3. Women and the Escheat Movement: The Politics of Everyday Life on Prince Edward Island; 4. 'The Queen is a Whore!' Gender, Language, and Politics in the Lower Canadian Rebellion of 1837-1838; 5. Nobler Savages: Representations of Native Women in the Writings of Susanna Moodie and Catharine Parr Trail; 6. Gender Ideology and Black Women as Community Builders in Ontario, 1850-1870; 7. Great Works and Good Works: The Toronto Women's Literary Club, 1877-1883; 8. Women's Workplaces: The Impact of Techological Change on Working-Class Women in the Home and in the Workplace in Nineteenth-Century Montreal; 9. First Nations Women and Colonization on the Canadian Prairies, 1870s-1920s; 10. A Legacy of Ambivalence: Responses to Nellie McClung; 11. Sex and Shame: Some Thoughts on the Social and Historical Meaning of Rape; 12. Good Wives and Wise Mothers: Japanese Picture Brides in Early Twentieth-Century British Columbia; 13. Claiming a Unique Place: The Introduction of Mothers' Pensions in British Columbia; 14. Beyond Romance: Courtship and Marriage in Montreal between the Wars; 15. Telling Our Stories: Feminist Debates and the Use of Oral History; 16. Carrier Women and the Politics of Mothering; 17. Revisiting Canada's Civilian Women During World War II; 18. Victims of the Times, Heroes of Their Lives: Five Mennonite Refugee Women; 19. From 'Mothers of the Nation' to Migrant Workers: Immigration Policies and Domestic Workers in Canadian History; 20. Recipes for Democracy? Gender, Family, and Making Female Citizens in Cold War Canada; 21. Home Dreams: Women and the Suburban Experiment in Canada, 1945-1960; 22. 'Don't Let Your Girlfriends Ruin Your Marriage': Lesbian Imagery in Chatelaine Magazine, 1950-1969; 23. Race, Culture, and the Colonization of Childbirth in Northern Canada; 24. 'Women and Children First': Fishery Collapse and Women in Newfoundland and Labrador; 25. Quebec Women in Politics: A Reappraisal; 26. NAFTA, Women, and Organizing in Canada and Mexico: Forging a 'Feminist Internationality'; Contributors