Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Acknowledgments IX
4. Introduction 1
5. PART ONE Race, Crime, and Justice
6. Introduction 19
7. A New Biography of the African Diaspora: The Life and Death of Marie-Joseph Angélique, Black Portuguese Slave Women in New France, 1725–1 23
8. Unpacking the Discursive Irish Woman Immigrant in Eighteenthand Nineteenth-Century Newfoundland 44
9. The Tale of Lin Tee: Madness, Family Violence, and Lindsay’s Anti-Chinese Riot of 1919 64
10. PART TWO The Making of White Settler Societies
11. Turning Strangers into Sisters? Missionaries and Colonization in Upper Canada 85
12. Whose Sisters and What Eyes? White Women, Race, and Immigration to British Columbia, 1849–1871 108
13. Exclusion through Inclusion: Female Asian Migration in the Making of Canada as a White Settler Nation 126
14. PART THREE Letters and Tales of Settlement and Longing
15. Introduction 149
16. Letters “Home” from Canada: British Female Emigrants and the Imperial Family of Women 153
17. The Interplay of Ethnicity and Gender: Swedish Women in Southeastern Saskatchewan 172
18. From Montreal and Venice with Love: Migrant Letters and Romantic Intimacy in Italian Migration to Postwar Canada 191
19. PART FOUR Labouring Domestics and Canadian Constraints
20. In Search of Comfort and Independence: Irish Immigrant Domestic Servants Encounter the Courts, Jails, and Asylums in Nineteenth-Century Ontario 205
21. Taming and Training Greek “Peasant Girls” and the Gendered Politics of Whiteness in Postwar Canada: Canadian Bureaucrats and Immigrant Domestics, 1950s–1960s 231
22. I Care for You, Who Cares for Me? Transitional Services of Filipino Live-in Caregivers in Canada 252
23. PART FIVE Constructing Symbols and Bodies
24. Fashioning Conflicts: Gender, Power, and Icelandic Immigrant Hair and Clothing in North America, 1874–1933 271
25. A Larger Frame: “Redressing” the Image of Doukhobor Canadian Women in the Twentieth Century 298
26. Propaganda and Identity Construction: Media Representation in Canada of Finnish and Finnish Canadian Women during the Winter War of 1939–1940 317
27. PART SIX Activists and Political Subjects
28. Introduction 347
29. Canadian Citizens or Dangerous Foreign Women? Canada’s Radical Consumer Movement, 1947–1950 351
30. Haitian Feminist Diasporic Lakou: Haitian Women’s Community Organizing in Montreal, 1960–1980 372
31. “An Unlikely Collection of Union Militants”: Portuguese Immigrant Cleaning Women Become Political Subjects in Postwar Toronto 393
32. PART SEVEN Food, Family, and Culture
33. The Semiotics of Zwieback: Feast and Famine in the Narratives of Mennonite Refugee Women 409
34. Jell-O Salads, One-Stop Shopping, and Maria the Homemaker: The Gender Politics of Food 432
35. Consuming Food and Constructing Identities among Arabic and South Asian Immigrant Women 455
36. PART EIGHT History, Identity, and Belonging PART EIGHT History, Identity, and Belonging
37. “Slotting” Chinese Families and Refugees, 1947–1967 475
38. Experience and Identity: Black Immigrant Nurses to Canada, 1950–1980 500
39. The Mother of God Wears a Maple Leaf: History, Gender, and Ethnic Identity in Sacred Space 521
40. PART NINE Trauma, Violence, and Memory
41. Surviving Their Survival: Women, Memory, and the Holocaust 543
42. “Days You Remember”: Japanese Canadian Women and the Violence of Internment 566
43. Feminist Oral History and Assessing the Duelling Narratives of Iraqi Women in Diaspora 584
44. Contributors 603
45. Credits 611