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Through feminist eyes : essays on Canadian women's history
Author
Title
Through feminist eyes : essays on Canadian women's history / Joan Sangster.
ISBN
9781926836188 (pbk.)
1926836189 (pbk.)
Published
Edmonton [Alta.] : AU Press, c2011.
Physical Description
vii, 429 p. ; 23 cm.
Summary
"Through Feminist Eyes gathers in one volume the most incisive and insightful essays written to date by the distinguished Canadian historian Joan Sangster. To the original essays, Sangster has added reflective introductory discussions that situate her earlier work in the context of developing theory and debate. Sangster has also supplied an introduction to the collection in which she reflects on the themes and theoretical orientations that have shaped the writing of women's history over the past thirty years. Approaching her subject matter from an array of interpretive frameworks that engage questions of gender, class, colonialism, politics, and labour, Sangster explores the lived experience of women in a variety of specific historical settings. In so doing, she sheds new light on issues that have sparked much debate among feminist historians and offers a thoughtful overview of the evolution of women's history in Canada."--pub. desc.
Other formats
Issued also in electronic format.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 16, 2011
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
"Publications by Joan Sangster": p. 425-428.
Contents
Reflections on thirty years of women's history
Discovering women's history
The 1907 Bell Telephone Strike: organizing women workers
Looking backwards: re-assessing women on the Canadian left
The Communist Party and the woman question, 1922-1929
Manufacturing consent in Peterborough
The softball solution: female workers, male managers, and the operation of paternalism at Westclox, 1923-1960
'Pardon tales' from Magistrate's court: women, crime, and the court in Peterborough County, 1920-1950
Telling our stories: feminist debates and the use of oral history
Foucault, feminism, and postcolonialism
Girls in conflict with the law : exploring the construction of female 'Delinquency' in Ontario, 1940-1960
Criminalizing the colonized: Ontario native women confront the criminal justice system, 1920-1960
Constructing the 'Eskimo' wife: white women's travel writing, colonialism, and the Canadian North, 1940-1960
Embodied experience
Words of experience/experiencing words: reading working women's letters to Canada's royal commission on the status of women
Making a fur coat: women, the labouring body, and working-class history.
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