Häftad, Engelska, 2014

Feminist History in Canada

New Essays on Women, Gender, Work, and Nation

Av Catherine Carstairs, Nancy Janovicek

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In the late 1970s, feminist historians urged us to "rethink" Canada by placing women's experiences at the centre of historical analysis. Forty years later, feminism continues to inform history writing and has inspired historians to look beyond the nation and adopt a more global perspective.This exciting new volume of original essays opens with a discussion of the themes and methodological approaches that have preoccupied historians over the past twenty years. The chapters that follow showcase the work of new and established 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.Whether they focus on the marriage of Governor James Douglas and his Metis wife, Amelia, or on the experiences of Québécois domestic workers in the 1970s, the contributors demonstrate the continued relevance of history informed by feminist perspectives and open a much-needed dialogue between francophone and anglophone historians in Canada.

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Utgivningsdatum: 2014-07-01
Mått: 152 x 229 x undefined mm
Vikt: 460 g
Format: Häftad
Språk: Engelska
Antal sidor: 302
Förlag: University of British Columbia Press
ISBN: 9780774826204

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Catherine Carstairs teaches history at the University of Guelph. She is the author of Jailed for Possession: Illegal Drug Use, Regulation and Power in Canada, 1920-1961 (2006). Nancy Janovicek teaches history at the University of Calgary. She is the author of No Place to Go: Local Histories of the Battered Women's Shelter Movement (UBC Press, 2007).

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... a thoughtful, well-written and ultimately convincing compilation of essays composed by leading scholars who have forever shaped the fields of women's and gender history in Canada ... this collection evocatively features works that demonstrate the important contributions women have made to the economic, social and cultural realm of Canada. With a strong focus on biography, the authors present a unique flare to Canadian feminist history, offering rich descriptions of various conditions, interactions and experiences faced by individual and collective groups of women over time. This anthology focuses on a wide range of issues and explores a variety of important themes, covering the latest debates in the field and providing thought-provoking analysis to questions that have long interested feminist historians.- Vanessa Lovisa, McMaster University (Histoire sociale I Social History, Vol. 48, No. 96, May 2015)

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