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11 Fighting the “Corset of Victorian Prejudice”
Women’s Activism in Canadian Engineering during the Pioneering Decades (1970s–80s)
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Ruby Heap
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Chapters in this book
- Front Matter i
- Contents v
- Acknowledgments ix
- Introduction 3
- James Douglas, Amelia Connolly, and the Writing of Gender and Women’s History 23
- Using Diaries to Explore the Shared Worlds of Family and Community in Nineteenth-Century New Brunswick 41
- “A Little Offensive and Defensive Alliance” 58
- “The Necessity of Going” 77
- Feminist Ideals and Everyday Life 96
- Singleness and Choice 118
- Sexual Spectacles 135
- Gender and the Career Paths of Professors in the École de service social at Laval University, 1943–72 159
- Teaching June Cleaver, Being Hazel Chong 178
- The Ontario Women’s History Network 200
- Fighting the “Corset of Victorian Prejudice” 218
- Ad Hoc Activism 237
- To Help and to Serve 259
- Contributors 275
- Index 279
Chapters in this book
- Front Matter i
- Contents v
- Acknowledgments ix
- Introduction 3
- James Douglas, Amelia Connolly, and the Writing of Gender and Women’s History 23
- Using Diaries to Explore the Shared Worlds of Family and Community in Nineteenth-Century New Brunswick 41
- “A Little Offensive and Defensive Alliance” 58
- “The Necessity of Going” 77
- Feminist Ideals and Everyday Life 96
- Singleness and Choice 118
- Sexual Spectacles 135
- Gender and the Career Paths of Professors in the École de service social at Laval University, 1943–72 159
- Teaching June Cleaver, Being Hazel Chong 178
- The Ontario Women’s History Network 200
- Fighting the “Corset of Victorian Prejudice” 218
- Ad Hoc Activism 237
- To Help and to Serve 259
- Contributors 275
- Index 279
