Feeling Feminism

Lara Campbell is a professor of gender, sexuality, and women's studies at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, BC. She has served on the Canadian Historical Association Council and as co-chair of the Canadian Committee on Women's and Gender History. Among her many publications are A Great Revolutionary Wave: Women and the Vote in British Columbia and, with Tamara Myers and Adele Perry, the seventh edition of Rethinking Canada: The Promise of Women's History.Michael Dawson is a professor of history at St. Thomas University in Fredericton, where he has also chaired the department and served as associate vice-president (research). His publications include Selling Out or Buying In? Debating Consumerism in Vancouver and Victoria, 1945–1985 and, with Catherine Gidney and Donald Wright, Symbols of Canada.Catherine Gidney is an adjunct research professor of history at St. Thomas University in Fredericton. Her publications include Captive Audience: How Corporations Invaded Our Schools and Tending the Student Body: Youth, Health, and the Modern University. She is a former president of the Canadian History of Education Association and a member of the Royal Society of Canada's College of New Scholars, Artists, and Scientists.Contributors: Funké Aladejebi, Taylor Antoniazzi, Marin Beck, Josette Brun, Kevin Brushett, Lara Campbell, Michael Dawson, Sophie Doucet, Matthew Fesnak, Patrizia Gentile, Catherine Gidney, Laurie Laplanche, Margaret Little, Lynne Marks, Eryk Martin, Emma McKenna, Liz Millward, Sarah A. Nickel, Emma Paszat, Cheryl Krasnick Warsh, Whitney Wood

...a fascinating collection of essays about second-wave feminist activism in Canada- Nancy Janovicek. University of Calgary (Social History/Histoire Sociale.) To call this book thought-provoking is a profound understatement. - Phyllis Reeve (The British Columbia Review)

• Introduction: Second-Wave Feminism and the History of Emotions / Lara Campbell, Michael Dawson, and Catherine Gidney1 Pride, Shame, and Anger: Women's Struggles to Achieve Natural Childbirth in Postwar Canada / Whitney Wood2 The Good Mother of Science: Emotional Letters to Frances Oldham Kelsey during the Thalidomide Crisis / Cheryl Krasnick Warsh3 Therapeutic Political Spaces: Collective Resistance among Indigenous Women in British Columbia / Sarah A. Nickel4 "Feeling My Way": Women's Community Activism in the Company of Young Canadians / Kevin Brushett5 Tears and Tiaras: Affect, Beauty Pageants, and Protests / Patrizia Gentile6 "Jesus Is Not Part of This Collective": Secular Passions and Religious Alienation among the Sisterhood / Lynne Marks, Margaret Little, Marin Beck, Emma Paszat, and Taylor Antoniazzi7 Intense Times: Love, Fear, and Pride as Guides to Lesbian Feminist Organizing / Liz Millward8 Resisting Red Hot Video: Feminism, Pornography, and the Political Utility of Emotion / Eryk Martin9 An Assumption of Shared Fear: Feminism, Sex Work, and the Sex Wars in 1980s Kinesis / Emma McKenna10 Emotional Scripts of Difference: Black Women Teachers and Feminist Mobilization / Funké Aladejebi11 "Briser le mur du silence": Emotions, Gender, and the 1981 Women Journalists' Conference in Quebec / Josette Brun, Laurie Laplanche, and Sophie Doucet12 Anger, Melancholia, and Hope: The Feminist Politics of Emotion and the Centre for Women and Trans People at Wilfrid Laurier University / Matthew FesnakIndex