Sisters or Strangers?

Marlene Epp is a professor in the Department of History at Conrad Grebel University College, University of Waterloo.Franca Iacovetta is a professor emerita of history at the University of Toronto.

"The volume is appropriate for a core text in seminars in Canadian or comparative immigrant women's history; for women's or immigration history courses; as a supplementary source of readings for courses in Canadian survey, women's, social, and gender history courses, or for multidisciplinary courses in women's and gender studies. The editors express their hope to inspire another generation of historians keen to explore and analyze the histories of immigrant, ethnic, and racialized women in Canada and beyond. Indeed." - Anne Burke (The Prairie Journal of Canadian Literature)

• IntroductionMARLENE EPP AND FRANCA IACOVETTAPART ONE: Race, Crime, and JusticeA New Biography of the African Diaspora: The Odyssey of Marie-Joseph AngÉlique, Black Portuguese Slave Woman in New France, 1725-1734AFUA COOPERUnpacking the Discursive Irish Women Immigrant in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-century NewfoundlandWILLEEN KEOUGHThe Tale of Lin Tee: Madness, Family Violence, and Lindsay’s Anti-Chinese Riot of 1919LISA R. MAR PART TWO: The Making of White Settler SocietiesTurning Strangers into Sisters? Missionaries and Colonization in Upper Canada CECILIA MORGANWhose Sisters and What Eyes? White Women, Race, and Immigration to British Columbia, 1849–1871ADELE PERRYExclusion through Inclusion: Female Asian Migration in the Making of Canada as a White Settler NationENAKSHI DUA PART THREE: Letters and Tales of Settlement and LongingLetters ‘home’ from Canada: British Female Emigrants and the Imperial Family of WomenLISA CHILTONThe Interplay of Ethnicity and Gender: Swedish Women in Southeastern Saskatchewan LESLEY ERICKSONFrom Montreal and Venice with Love: Migrant Letters and Romantic Intimacy in Italian Migration to Postwar Canada SONIA CANCIAN PART FOUR: Labouring Domestics and Canadian ConstraintsIn Search of Comfort and Independence: Irish Immigrant Domestic Servants Encounter the Courts, Jails, and Asylums in Nineteenth-Century OntarioLORNA R. MCLEAN AND MARILYN BARBERTaming and Training Greek “Peasant Girls” and the Gendered Politics of Whiteness in Postwar Canada: Canadian Bureaucrats and Immigrant Domestics, 1950s –1960sNOULA MINAI Care for You, Who Cares for Me? Transitional Services for Filipino Live-in Caregivers in CanadaGLENDA TIBE BONIFACIO PART FIVE : Constructing Symbols and BodiesFashioning Conflicts: Gender, Power, and Icelandic Immigrant Hair and Clothing in North America, 1874–1933 LAURIE K. BERTRAMA Larger Frame: ‘Redressing’ the Image of Doukhobor-Canadian Women in the Twentieth Century ASHLEIGH ANDROSOFFPropaganda and Identity Construction: Media Representation in Canada of Finnish and Finnish-Canadian Women during the Winter War of 1939–1940VARPU LINDSTROM PART SIX: Activists and Political SubjectsCanadian Citizens or Dangerous Foreign Women? Canada’s Radical Consumer Movement, 1947–1950JULIE GUARDHaitian Feminist Diasporic Lakou: Haitian Women’s Community Organizing in Montreal, 1960–1980GRACE L. SANDERS JOHNSONAn Unlikely Collection of Union Militants? Portuguese Cleaning Women Become Political Subjects in Postwar TorontoSUSANA MIRANDA  PART SEVEN: Food, Family, and CultureThe Semiotics of Zwieback: Feast and Famine in the Narratives of Mennonite Refugee WomenMARLENE EPPJello-O Salads, One-Stop Shopping, and Maria the Homemaker: The Gender Politics of FoodFRANCA IACOVETTA AND VALERIE J. KORINEKConsuming Food and Constructing Identities among Arabic and South Asian Immigrant Women HELEN VALLIANATOS AND KIM RAINE PART EIGHT: History, Identity, and Belonging‘Slotting’ Chinese Families and Refugees, 1947–1967 LAURA MADOKOROExperience and Identity: Black Immigrant Nurses to Canada, 1950–1980KAREN FLYNNThe Mother of God Wears a Maple Leaf: History, Gender, and Ethnic Identity in Sacred Space FRANCES SWYRIPA PART NINE: Trauma, Violence, and MemorySurvival Their Survival: Women, Memory and the HolocaustPAULA J. DRAPERDays You Remember: Japanese Canadian Women and the Violations of InternmentPAMELA SUGIMANFeminist Oral History and Assessing the Dueling Narratives of Iraqi Women in DiasporaNADIA JONES-GAILANI