Synopses & Reviews
Thoroughly revised and updated, this third edition features 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, identities, and aspirations. A decidedly non-traditional reconstruction of Canadian history, Rethinking Canada focuses on the lives, struggles, and contributions of women, enlarging and diversifying the picture of the past found in conventional historical accounts.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Separate Confrontations: Gender as a Factor in Indian Adaptation to European Colonization in New France, Carol Devens
New France: Les femmes favorisees, Jan Noel
Patriarchy and Paternalism: The Case of the Eastern Ontario Loyalist Women, Janice Potter
The Role of Native Women in the Fur Trade Society of Western Canada, 1670-1830, Sylvia Van Kirk
Women and the Escheat Movement: The Politics of Everyday Life on Prince Edward Island, Rusty Bittermann
The Queen is a Whore!, Allen Greer
Ladies' Academies and 'Seminaries of Respectability': Training 'Good' Women of Upper Canada, Elizabeth Jane Errington
Gender Ideology and Black Women as Community-Builders in Ontario, 1850-70, Shirley J. Yee
Women's Workplaces: The Impact of Technological Change on Working-Class Women in the Home and in the Workplace in Nineteenth-Century Montreal, Bettina Bradbury
Sex and Shame: Some Thoughts on the Social and Historical Meaning of Rape, Karen Dubinsky
In Their Own Right: Convents, an Organized Expression of Women's Aspirations, Marta Danylewycz
'La vie en rose'? Metis Women at Batoches, 1870 to 1920, Diane P. Payment
'Not to be Ranked as Women': Female Industrial Workers in Turn-of-the Century Halifax, Sharon Myers
Good Wives and Wise Mothers: Japanese Picture Brides in Early Twentieth-Century British Columbia, Midge Ayukawa
Women, Work and the Office: The Feminization of Clerical Occupations in Canada, 1901-1931, Graham Lowe
'Ever a Crusader': Nellie McClung, First-Wave Feminist, Veronica Strong-Boag
Claiming a Unique Place: The Introduction of Mothers' Pensions in B.C., Margaret Little
Telling Our Stories: Feminist Debates and the Use of Oral History, Joan Sangster
Deviants Anonymous: Single Mothers at the Hopital de la Misericorde in Montreal, 1929-1939, Andree Levesque
From Contadina to Worker: Southern Italian Immigrant Working Women in Toronto, 1947-1962, Franca Iacovetta
Carrier Women and the Politics of Mothering, Jo-Anne Fiske
Home Dreams: Women and the Suburban Experiment in Canada, 1945-60, Veronica Strong-Boag
Remembering Lesbian Bars: Montreal, 1955-1975, Line Chamberland
Immigration Policies, Migrant Domestic Workers and the Definition of Citizenship in Canada, Sedef Arat-Koc
From 'Shipped Girls' to 'Brides of the State': The Transition from Familial to Social Patriarchy in the Newfoundland Fishing Industry, Barbara Neis
The Origins of the Women's Movement in Quebec, Micheline Dumont
Gender and Public Policy: Making Some Difference in Ottawa, Sandra Burt