Reading Canadian Women’s and Gender History
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Edited by:
Nancy Janovicek
About this book
By putting past and present scholarship into dialogue with each other, this book addresses accomplishments in Canadian women’s and gender history, as well as ongoing silences and absences.
Author / Editor information
Nancy Janovicek is an associate professor of History at the University of Calgary.
Nielson Carmen :
Carmen Nielson is an associate professor of History at Mount Royal University.
Reviews
"Reading Canadian Women’s and Gender History taps into the pulse of the ever evolving field of Women, Gender and Feminist studies in Canada with emphasis on diversity and the theoretical debates that are and have been at the heart of the discipline over a number of years. Featuring extraordinary and memorable essays, this volume fills an important gap by offering the state of the Canadian women’s history as well as proposing new directions for pursuit.
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Frontmatter
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Contents
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Acknowledgments
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1. Introduction: Feminist Conversations
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2. Our Historiographical Moment: A Conversation about Indigenous Women’s History in Canada in the Early Twenty-First Century
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3. Writing Black Canadian Women’s History: Where We Have Been and Where We Are Going
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4. Quebec Nationalism and the History of Women and Gender
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5. Class, Race, and Gender Roles in Early British North America
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6. Performative (Ir)rationality: Rethinking Agency in Canadian Histories of Gender, Religion, Reason, and Beyond
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7. Home Fronts and Front Lines: A Gendered History of War and Peace
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8. Historical Feminisms in Canada to 1940: Further Reflections on the So-Called First Wave
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9. Never Done: Feminists Reinterpret Their Own History
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10. Beyond Sisters or Strangers: Feminist Immigrant Women’s History and Rewriting Canadian History
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11. Primal Urge/National Force: Sex, Sexuality, and National History
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12. Challenging Work: Feminist Scholarship on Women, Gender, and Work in Canadian History
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13. Realizing Reproductive Justice in Canadian History
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List of Contributors
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Index
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