Sisters or Strangers? : Immigrant, Ethnic, and Racialized Women in Canadian History, Second Edition
Record details
- ISBN: 9781442625938
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (624 p.) : 20 b&w illustrations
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Computer data. - Edition: 2nd Edition
- Publisher: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2022]
- Copyright: ©2016
Content descriptions
General Note: | CatMonthString:january.23 Multi-User. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART ONE Race, Crime, and Justice -- Introduction -- A New Biography of the African Diaspora: The Life and Death of Marie-Joseph Angélique, Black Portuguese Slave Women in New France, 1725-1 -- Unpacking the Discursive Irish Woman Immigrant in Eighteenthand Nineteenth-Century Newfoundland -- The Tale of Lin Tee: Madness, Family Violence, and Lindsay's Anti-Chinese Riot of 1919 -- PART TWO The Making of White Settler Societies -- Turning Strangers into Sisters? Missionaries and Colonization in Upper Canada -- Whose Sisters and What Eyes? White Women, Race, and Immigration to British Columbia, 1849-1871 -- Exclusion through Inclusion: Female Asian Migration in the Making of Canada as a White Settler Nation -- PART THREE Letters and Tales of Settlement and Longing -- Introduction -- Letters "Home" from Canada: British Female Emigrants and the Imperial Family of Women -- The Interplay of Ethnicity and Gender: Swedish Women in Southeastern Saskatchewan -- From Montreal and Venice with Love: Migrant Letters and Romantic Intimacy in Italian Migration to Postwar Canada -- PART FOUR Labouring Domestics and Canadian Constraints -- In Search of Comfort and Independence: Irish Immigrant Domestic Servants Encounter the Courts, Jails, and Asylums in Nineteenth-Century Ontario -- Taming and Training Greek "Peasant Girls" and the Gendered Politics of Whiteness in Postwar Canada: Canadian Bureaucrats and Immigrant Domestics, 1950s-1960s -- I Care for You, Who Cares for Me? Transitional Services of Filipino Live-in Caregivers in Canada -- PART FIVE Constructing Symbols and Bodies -- Fashioning Conflicts: Gender, Power, and Icelandic Immigrant Hair and Clothing in North America, 1874-1933 -- A Larger Frame: "Redressing" the Image of Doukhobor Canadian Women in the Twentieth Century -- Propaganda and Identity Construction: Media Representation in Canada of Finnish and Finnish Canadian Women during the Winter War of 1939-1940 -- PART SIX Activists and Political Subjects -- Introduction -- Canadian Citizens or Dangerous Foreign Women? Canada's Radical Consumer Movement, 1947-1950 -- Haitian Feminist Diasporic Lakou: Haitian Women's Community Organizing in Montreal, 1960-1980 -- "An Unlikely Collection of Union Militants": Portuguese Immigrant Cleaning Women Become Political Subjects in Postwar Toronto -- PART SEVEN Food, Family, and Culture -- The Semiotics of Zwieback: Feast and Famine in the Narratives of Mennonite Refugee Women -- Jell-O Salads, One-Stop Shopping, and Maria the Homemaker: The Gender Politics of Food -- Consuming Food and Constructing Identities among Arabic and South Asian Immigrant Women -- PART EIGHT History, Identity, and Belonging PART EIGHT History, Identity, and Belonging -- "Slotting" Chinese Families and Refugees, 1947-1967 -- Experience and Identity: Black Immigrant Nurses to Canada, 1950-1980 -- The Mother of God Wears a Maple Leaf: History, Gender, and Ethnic Identity in Sacred Space -- PART NINE Trauma, Violence, and Memory -- Surviving Their Survival: Women, Memory, and the Holocaust -- "Days You Remember": Japanese Canadian Women and the Violence of Internment -- Feminist Oral History and Assessing the Duelling Narratives of Iraqi Women in Diaspora -- Contributors -- Credits |
Restrictions on Access Note: | restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization |
Type of Computer File or Data Note: | Text (HTML), electronic book. |
System Details Note: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. Mode of access: Internet. |
Terms Governing Use and Reproduction Note: | Access requires VIU IP addresses and is restricted to VIU students, faculty and staff. Access restricted through purchase. |
Language Note: | In English. |
Issuing Body Note: | Made available online by publisher. |
Source of Description Note: | Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2022) |