Feeling Feminism

Feeling Feminism is a groundbreaking collection of interdisciplinary scholarship on second-wave feminist history and feminist social movements in Canada that puts emotions at the centre of the story.

Lara Campbell is a professor of gender, sexuality, and women’s studies at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, BC. She has served on the Canadian Historical Association Council and as co-chair of the Canadian Committee on Women’s and Gender History. Among her many publications are A Great Revolutionary Wave: Women and the Vote in British Columbia and, with Tamara Myers and Adele Perry, the seventh edition of Rethinking Canada: The Promise of Women’s History.

Michael Dawson is a professor of history at St. Thomas University in Fredericton, where he has also chaired the department and served as associate vice-president (research). His publications include Selling Out or Buying In? Debating Consumerism in Vancouver and Victoria, 1945–1985 and, with Catherine Gidney and Donald Wright, Symbols of Canada.

Catherine Gidney is an adjunct research professor of history at St. Thomas University in Fredericton. Her publications include Captive Audience: How Corporations Invaded Our Schools and Tending the Student Body: Youth, Health, and the Modern University. She is a former president of the Canadian History of Education Association and a member of the Royal Society of Canada’s College of New Scholars, Artists, and Scientists.

Contributors: Funké Aladejebi, Taylor Antoniazzi, Marin Beck, Josette Brun, Kevin Brushett, Lara Campbell, Michael Dawson, Sophie Doucet, Matthew Fesnak, Patrizia Gentile, Catherine Gidney, Laurie Laplanche, Margaret Little, Lynne Marks, Eryk Martin, Emma McKenna, Liz Millward, Sarah A. Nickel, Emma Paszat, Cheryl Krasnick Warsh, Whitney Wood

Nancy Janovicek. University of Calgary:

...a fascinating collection of essays about second-wave feminist activism in Canada

Catherine Carstairs, editor of Feminist History in Canada: New Essays on Women, Gender, Work, and Nation:

Feeling Feminism is an outstanding, vital book, providing not only an emotional history of second-wave feminism but also a superb overview of feminist activism in the years after the Second World War.

Tarah Brookfield, author of Our Voices Must Be Heard: Women and the Vote in Ontario:

I learned a lot from this book! The focus on emotions was a great way to gain a better understanding of how personal experiences of inequity and injustice fueled feminist activism.