Rethinking Canada : the promise of women's history

Campbell, Lara, 1970- (Added Author). Perry, Adele. (Added Author). Myers, Tamara, 1964- (Added Author).

Summary: Now in its seventh edition, Rethinking Canada presents a collection of compelling essays on the fascinating lives, struggles, and contributions of women in Canadian history. Reflecting an interdisciplinary approach, this comprehensive and engaging resource stresses the diversity of women'shistory and demonstrates the analytic richness of ongoing research in the field. Featuring insightful chapter introductions that provide scholarly and historical context for each reading, Rethinking Canada helps students gain a more nuanced understanding of women's experiences across Canada'shistory.

Record details

ISBN: 9780199011087 (pbk.)
Physical Description: xx, 449 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
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Edition: Seventh edition.
Publisher: Don Mills, Ontario : Oxford University Press, [2016]

Content descriptions

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Primary document : The globe (Toronto), 1914 -- Exclusion through inclusion : female Asian migration in the making of Canada as a white settler nation / Enakshi Dua -- Primary document : Dr Grace Ritchie-England's letter endorsing Sir Wilfrid Laurier, 1917 -- Divided by the ballot box : the Montreal Council of Women and the 1917 election / Tarah Brookfield -- Primary document : Provincial Archives of Manitoba (PAM), Anne Ross papers, 19 June 1948, and Toronto daily star, 13 January 1948 -- The politics of milk : Canadian housewives organize in the 1930s / Julie Guard -- Primary document : unidentified nursing sister storing supplies, 1943 -- Front lines and frontiers : war and legitimate work for nurses, 1939-1945 / Cynthia Toman -- Primary document : Sugiman family collection -- "A million hearts from here" : Japanese-Canadian mothers and daughters and the lessons of war / Pamela Sugiman -- Primary document : "why wives are going out to work" -- Gender, ethnicity, and immigrant women in postwar Canada : the Dionne textile works / Joan Sangster -- Primary document : RCMP report, Vancouver Women's Caucus, 21 April 1970 -- Clandestine operations : the Vancouver Women's Caucus, the Abortion Caravan and the RCMP / Christabelle Sethna and Steve Hewitt -- Primary document : Toronto daily star, 31 March 1967 -- Women's class strategies as activism in Native community building in Toronto, 1950-1975 / Heather A. Howard -- Primary document : brief to the Royal Commission on the Status of Women, 1968 -- Québécoises deboutte! Nationalism and feminism in Quebec, 1969-1975 / Sean Mills -- Primary document : cross-roads -- Making a scene : struggles over lesbian place-making in Anglophone Canada, 1964-1984 / Liz Millward -- Primary document : Vancouver sun, 3 March 1983 -- Sex and (evacuation from) the city : the moral and legal regulation of sex workers in Vancouver's West End, 1975-1985 / Becki L. Ross -- Primary document : The (Montreal) gazette, 20 February 2000 -- Gendering Terror Post-9/11 / Yasmin Jiwani -- Primary document : United Nations Human Rights Committee decision on the Lovelace Case, 1979 -- Gender, sovereignty, and the discourse of rights in Native women's activism / Joanne Barker.