Gendering the Nation

The editors have produced a definitive collection of essays that address the impact and influence of a century of women's film-making in Canada. This book seeks to situate women's cinema through the complex optic of national culture.

Kay Armatage is Chair, Graduate Programme in Women's Studies, University of Toronto.

Kass Banning teaches Cinema Studies at the University of Toronto.

Brenda Longfellow is a filmmaker and an associate professor at Atkinson College, York University.

Janine Marchessault is an associate professor and Canada Research Chair in Art, Digital Media, and Globalization in the Faculty of Fine Arts at York University.

'This is the most refreshing and most useful - quite simply the best - book on Canadian cinemas of the last decade. At last gender is consolidated as the central issue in questions of nationality and culture, and in a way that enriches, problematizes and expands the entire field far beyond currently existing canons. Gendering the Nation offers a wealth of perspectives by leading Canadian film scholars and by those who clearly soon will be.'

Arthur and Marilouise Kroker, authors of Hacking the Future:

'[Gendering the Nation is] a unique, imaginative history of Canadian women's cinema that convincingly demonstrates that to know Canadian women's filmic imagination is to know another country – a country with a "global sense of place" beyond gender, identity, and nation.'