Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Introduction: No Archive Is Neutral 1
4. Reorientations
5. Of Mini-Ships and Archives 23
6. Finding Indian Maidens on eBay: Tales of the Alternative Archive (and More Tales of White Commodity Culture) 29
7. “ Faster Than a Speeding Thought”: Lemon Hound’s Archive Unleashed 47
8. “ I remember . . . I was wearing leather pants”: Archiving the Repertoire of Feminist Cabaret in Canada 65
9. “In the hope of making a connection”: Rereading Archival Bodies, Responses, and Love in Marian Engel’s ^Bear and Alice Munro’s “Meneseteung” 87
10. An Archive of Complicity: Ethically (Re)Reading the Documentaries of Nelofer Pazira 107
11. Psyche and Her Helpers, under Cloud Cover 125
12. Restrictions
13. Archival Matters 133
14. Keeping the Archive Door Open: Writing about Florence Carlyle 141
15. The Oral, the Archive, and Ethics: Canadian Women Writers Telling It 155
16. Halted by the Archive: The Impact of Excessive Archival Restrictions on Scholars 169
17. Personal Ethics: Being an Archivist of Writers 181
18. Invisibility Exhibit: The Limits of Library and Archives Canada’s “Multicultural Mandate” 193
19. Responsibilities
20. Rat in the Box: Thoughts on Archiving My Stuff 207
21. Letters to the Woman’s Page Editor: Reading Francis Marion Beynon’s “The Country Homemakers” and the Public Culture for Women 215
22. Archival Adventures with L. M. Montgomery; or, “As Long as the Leaves Hold Together” 233
23. The Quality of the Carpet: A Consideration of Anecdotes in Researching Women’s Lives 249
24. “I want my story told”: The Sheila Watson Archive, the Reader, and the Search for Voice 263
25. “You can do with all this rambling whatever you want”: Scrutinizing Ethics in the Alzheimer’s Archives 281
26. Locking Up Letters 303
27. Afterword 319
28. Contributors 325
29. Index 331
30. Books in the Life Writing Series 336