| Description |
1 online resource (vii, 429 pages) |
| Contents |
Introduction : 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 part 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 'deliquency' 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 |
| 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Women -- Canada -- History
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Women's Studies.
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Women
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Canada
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781926836195 |
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1926836197 |
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9781926836409 |
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1926836405 |
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