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Introduction

© 2021 Athabasca University Press

© 2021 Athabasca University Press

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Contents vii
  3. Preface xi
  4. Acknowledgements xiii
  5. Introduction xv
  6. PART I Indigenous Activism and Resistance 1
  7. Introduction 1
  8. 1. Indian Status as the Foundation of Justice 15
  9. 2. Teaching It Our Way: Blue Quills and the Demand for Indigenous Educational Autonomy 33
  10. 3. “We are on the outside looking in [. . .]. But we are still Indians”: Alberta Indigenous Women Fighting for Status Rights, 1968–85 53
  11. PART II Defying Heteropatriarchy
  12. Introduction 65
  13. 4. Fed Up with the Status Quo: Alberta Women’s Groups Challenge Maternalist Ideology and Secure Provincial Funding for Daycare, 1964–71 75
  14. 5. Gay Liberation in Conservative Calgary 95
  15. 6. Contraception, Community, and Controversy: Th e Lethbridge Birth Control and Information Centre, 1972–78 109
  16. 7. “Ultra Activists” in a “Very Closeted Place”: Th e Early Years of Edmonton’s Gay Alliance Toward Equality, 1972–77 125
  17. PART III Doing Politics in a New Way
  18. Introduction 145
  19. 8. Daring to Be Left in Social Credit Alberta: Recollections of a Young New Democratic Party Activist in the 1960s 157
  20. 9. Socialist Survival: The Woodsworth-Irvine Socialist Fellowship and the Preservation of Radical Th ought in Alberta 171
  21. 10. Learning Marxism from Tom Flanagan: Left-Wing Activism at the University of Calgary in the Late 1960s and Early 1970s 187
  22. 11. Drop In, Hang Out, and Crash: Outreach Programs for Transient Youth and War Resisters in Edmonton 201
  23. 12. Solidarity on the Cricket Pitch: Confronting South African Apartheid in Edmonton 217
  24. PART IV Countercultural and Environmental Radicalism
  25. Introduction 231
  26. 13. From Nuclear Disarmament to Raging Granny: A Recollection of Peace Activism and Environmental Advocacy in the 1960s and 1970s 241
  27. 14. The Mill Creek Park Movement and Citizen Activism in Edmonton, 1964–75 253
  28. 15. “A Lot of Heifer-Dust”: Alberta Maverick Marion Nicoll and Abstract Art 269
  29. 16. Land and Love in the Rockies: The Poetic Politics of Sid Marty and Headwaters 287
  30. 17. Death of a Delta 303
  31. Conclusion: Bucking Conservatism, Then and Now 315
  32. Contributors 329
Bucking Conservatism
This chapter is in the book Bucking Conservatism
https://doi.org/10.15215/aupress/9781771992572.005

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Contents vii
  3. Preface xi
  4. Acknowledgements xiii
  5. Introduction xv
  6. PART I Indigenous Activism and Resistance 1
  7. Introduction 1
  8. 1. Indian Status as the Foundation of Justice 15
  9. 2. Teaching It Our Way: Blue Quills and the Demand for Indigenous Educational Autonomy 33
  10. 3. “We are on the outside looking in [. . .]. But we are still Indians”: Alberta Indigenous Women Fighting for Status Rights, 1968–85 53
  11. PART II Defying Heteropatriarchy
  12. Introduction 65
  13. 4. Fed Up with the Status Quo: Alberta Women’s Groups Challenge Maternalist Ideology and Secure Provincial Funding for Daycare, 1964–71 75
  14. 5. Gay Liberation in Conservative Calgary 95
  15. 6. Contraception, Community, and Controversy: Th e Lethbridge Birth Control and Information Centre, 1972–78 109
  16. 7. “Ultra Activists” in a “Very Closeted Place”: Th e Early Years of Edmonton’s Gay Alliance Toward Equality, 1972–77 125
  17. PART III Doing Politics in a New Way
  18. Introduction 145
  19. 8. Daring to Be Left in Social Credit Alberta: Recollections of a Young New Democratic Party Activist in the 1960s 157
  20. 9. Socialist Survival: The Woodsworth-Irvine Socialist Fellowship and the Preservation of Radical Th ought in Alberta 171
  21. 10. Learning Marxism from Tom Flanagan: Left-Wing Activism at the University of Calgary in the Late 1960s and Early 1970s 187
  22. 11. Drop In, Hang Out, and Crash: Outreach Programs for Transient Youth and War Resisters in Edmonton 201
  23. 12. Solidarity on the Cricket Pitch: Confronting South African Apartheid in Edmonton 217
  24. PART IV Countercultural and Environmental Radicalism
  25. Introduction 231
  26. 13. From Nuclear Disarmament to Raging Granny: A Recollection of Peace Activism and Environmental Advocacy in the 1960s and 1970s 241
  27. 14. The Mill Creek Park Movement and Citizen Activism in Edmonton, 1964–75 253
  28. 15. “A Lot of Heifer-Dust”: Alberta Maverick Marion Nicoll and Abstract Art 269
  29. 16. Land and Love in the Rockies: The Poetic Politics of Sid Marty and Headwaters 287
  30. 17. Death of a Delta 303
  31. Conclusion: Bucking Conservatism, Then and Now 315
  32. Contributors 329
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