Acknowledgments

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction 3
5. James Douglas, Amelia Connolly, and the Writing of Gender and Women’s History 23
6. Using Diaries to Explore the Shared Worlds of Family and Community in Nineteenth-Century New Brunswick 41
7. “A Little Offensive and Defensive Alliance” 58
8. “The Necessity of Going” 77
9. Feminist Ideals and Everyday Life 96
10. Singleness and Choice 118
11. Sexual Spectacles 135
12. Gender and the Career Paths of Professors in the École de service social at Laval University, 1943–72 159
13. Teaching June Cleaver, Being Hazel Chong 178
14. The Ontario Women’s History Network 200
15. Fighting the “Corset of Victorian Prejudice” 218
16. Ad Hoc Activism 237
17. To Help and to Serve 259
18. Contributors 275
19. Index 279