Rethinking Canada : the promise of women's history

Strong-Boag, Veronica Jane. (Added Author). Gleason, Mona Lee, 1964- (Added Author). Perry, Adele. (Added Author).

Record details

ISBN: 0195417283 :
ISBN: 9780195417289 :
Physical Description: viii, 419 p. : ill ; 23 cm.
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Edition: 4th ed.
Publisher: Don Mills, Ont. : Oxford University Press, 2002.

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Sex and shame: some thoughts on the social and historical meaning of rape / Karen Dubinsky -- Good wives and wise mothers: Japanese picture brides in early twentieth-century British Columbia / Michiko Midge Ayukawa -- Claiming a unique place: the introduction of mothers' pension in British Columbia / Margaret Hillyard Little -- Beyond romance: courtship and marriage in Montreal between the wars / Denyse Baillargeon -- Telling our stories: feminist debates and the use of oral history / Joan Sangster -- Carrier women and the politics of mothering / Jo-Anne Fiske -- Revisiting Canada's civilian women during World War II / Jeff Keshen -- Victims of the times, heroes of their lives: five Mennonite refugee women / Marlene Epp -- From 'Mothers of the Nation' to migrant workers: immigration policies and domestic workers in Canadian history / Seder Arat-Koc -- Recipes for democracy? gender, family, and making female citizens in cold war Canada / Franca Iacovetta -- Home dreams: women and the suburban experiment in Canada, 1945-1960 / Veronica Strong-Boag -- 'Don't let your girlfriends ruin your marriage': lesbian imagery in Chatelaine magazine, 1950-1969 / Valerie J. Korinek -- Race, culture, and the colonization of childbirth in Northern Canada / Patricia Jasen -- 'Women and children first': fishery collapse and women in Newfoundland and Labrador / Barbara Neis and Susan Williams -- Quebec women in politics: a reappraisal / Manon Tremblay -- NAFTA, women, and organizing in Canada and Mexico: forging a 'Feminist internationality' / Christina Gabriel and Laura Macdonald.