Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface ix
4. Changing Times 1
5. Essays
6. Creating a Tradition of Canadian Women Writers and Feminist Literary Criticism 43
7. Mother Was Not a Person, So I Became a Feminist 51
8. Fanning Fires: Women’s Studies in a School of Social Work 54
9. Feminism: A Critical Theory of Knowledge 61
10. Women’s Studies: A Personal Story 68
11. Contributing to the Establishment of Women’s Studies and Gender Relations 74
12. Feminism and a Scholarly Friendship 78
13. Midwife to the Birth of Women’s Studies at McGill 89
14. How the Simone de Beauvoir Institute of Concordia University Grew from Unlikely Beginnings 95
15. Moments in the Making of a Feminist Historian 99
16. Doing Feminist Studies Without Knowing It 106
17. A Matrix of Creativity 114
18. Transforming the Academy and the World 120
19. Reminiscences of a Male Supporter of the Movement Towards Women’s Liberation and Social Equality 126
20. You Just Had to Be There 132
21. The Second Wave: A Personal Voyage 142
22. A Lifetime of Struggles to Belong 148
23. Once Upon a Time There Was the Feminist Movement … and Then There Was Feminist Studies 155
24. Women’s Studies at the University of Alberta 163
25. Women’s Studies and the Trajectory of Women in Academe 170
26. Women’s Studies at Simon Fraser University, 1966–76: A Dialogue 178
27. Nascent, Incipient, Embryonic, and Ceremonial Women’s Studies 188
28. To Challenge the World 196
29. From Male and Female Roles to Sex and Gender Relations:* A Scientific and Political Trajectory 203
30. Second Wave Breaks on the Shore of U of T 210
31. Surviving Political Science … and Loving It 217
32. Blood on the Chapel Floor: Adventures in Women’s Studies 226
33. Genesis of a Journal 233
34. The Saga 237
35. Coming of Age with Women’s Studies 243
36. Doing Women’s Studies 250
37. Pioneer in Feminist Political Economy: Overcoming the Disjuncture 256
38. Women’s Studies at Guelph 261
39. Women’s Studies: Oppression and Liberation in the University 268
40. Reflections on Teaching and Writing Feminist Philosophy in the 1970s 275
41. From Marginalized to “Establishment”: Doing Feminist Sociology in Canada, Australia, and New Zealand 282
42. “To Ring True and Stand for Something” 289
43. Socialist Feminist and Activist Educator 297
44. My Path to Feminist Philosophy, 1970–76 304
45. Women’s Sight: Looking Backwards into Women’s Studies in Toronto 311
46. Personal and Intellectual Revolutions: Some Reflections 319
47. Appendices 341
48. Notes on Contributors 345
49. Cumulative Bibliography 357
50. Cumulative Bibliography 389