Rethinking Canada The Promise of Women's History

by Gleason, Mona; Perry, Adele

• ISBN13: 9780195423501
• ISBN10: 019542350X
• Edition: 5th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-06-15
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Rethinking Canada examines key developments in Canadian history--from the founding of New France to the present--while at the same time highlighting the distinctive texture of women's experiences and identities. This decidedly non-traditional reconstruction of Canadian history focuses on thelives, struggles, and contributions of women, enlarging and diversifying the picture of the past found in conventional historical accounts.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	vi
Introduction	1	(9)
Kateri Tekakwitha's Tortuous Path to Sainthood	10	(16)
Nancy Shoemaker
Gender, Family, and Mutual Assistance in New France: Widows, Widowers, and Orphans in Eighteenth-Century Quebec	26	(19)
Josette Brun
Slavery in Early Canada: Making Black Women Subject	45	(16)
Maureen Elgersman Lee
Women and the Escheat Movement: The Politics of Everyday Life on Prince Edward Island	61	(12)
Rusty Bitterman
Women at the Hustings: Gender, Citizenship, and the Montreal By-Elections of 1832	73	(22)
Bettina Bradbury
`The Law Should Be Her Protector': The Criminal Prosecution of Rape in Upper Canada, 1791--1850	95	(20)
Patrick J. Connor
From `Marrying-In' to `Marrying-Out': Changing Patterns of Aboriginal/Non-Aboriginal Marriage in Colonial Canada	115	(9)
Sylvia Van Kirk
`A Fragment of Heaven on Earth'? Religion, Gender, and Family in Turn-of-the-Century Canadian Church Periodicals	124	(20)
Lynne Marks
Rediscovering our Foremothers Again: Racial Ideas of Canada's Early Feminists, 1885--1945	144	(19)
Janice Fiamengo
Claiming a Unique Place: The Introduction of Mothers' Pensions in British Columbia	163	(16)
Margaret Hillyard Little
Indispensable But Not a Citizen: The Housewife in the Great Depression	179	(16)
Denyse Baillargeon
From `Mothers of the Nation' to Migrant Workers: Immigration Policies and Domestic Workers in Canadian History	195	(15)
Sedef Arat-Koc
Carrier Women and the Politics of Mothering	210	(14)
Jo-Anne Fiske
A Platform for Gender Tensions: Women Working and Riding on Canadian Urban Public Transit in the 1940s	224	(18)
Donald F. Davis
Barbara Lorenzkowski
Passing Time, Moving Memories: Interpreting Wartime Narratives of Japanese Canadian Women	242	(22)
Pamela Sugiman
Recipes for Democracy? Gender, Family, and Making Female Citizens in Cold War Canada	264	(14)
Franca Iacovetta
The Heterosexualization of the Ontario Woman Teacher in the Postwar Period	278	(9)
Sheila L. Cavanagh
Victims of the Times, Heroes of Their Lives: Five Mennonite Refugee Women	287	(14)
Marlene Epp
Rethinking Class in Lesbian Bar Culture: Living `The Gay Life' in Toronto, 1955--1965	301	(22)
Elise Chenier
Race, Culture, and the Colonization of Childbirth in Northern Canada	323	(13)
Patricia Jasen
Violence and Poverty on the `Rock': Can Feminists Make a Difference?	336	(8)
Glynis George
Against the Current: Child Care and Family Policy in Quebec	344	(21)
Jane Jenson
On the Same Wavelength? Feminist Attitudes Across Generations of Canadian Women	365	(16)
Brenda O'Neill
Who is Canadian Now?: Feminism and the Politics of Nation after September 11	381	(13)
Mary-Jo Nadeau
Contributors	394	(2)
Index	396