DEDICATION ; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ; PERMISSIONS ; INTRODUCTION ; 1. 'They Are the Life of the Nation': Women and War in Traditional Nadouek Society ; KATHRYN MAGEE ; 2. 'Nagging Wife' Revisited: Women and the Fur Trade in New France ; JAN NOEL (UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO) ; 3. Gender, Family, and Mutual Assistance in New France: Widows, Widowers, and Orphans in Eighteenth-Century Quebec ; JOSETTE BRUN (UNIVERSITE LAVAL) ; 4. The 'Old Hag' Revisits St Brigid: Irish Newfoundland Women and Spirituality on the Southern Avalon ; WILLEEN KEOUGH (SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY) ; 5. Acts of Resistance: Black Men and Women Engage Slavery in Upper Canada, 1793-1803 ; AFUA COOPER (SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY) ; 6. Bonds of Friendship, Kinship, and Community: Gender, Homelessness, and Mutual Aid in Early Nineteenth-Century Montreal ; MARY ANNE POUTANEN (MCGILL UNIVERSITY) ; 7. The Women's Lodge: Constructing Gender on the Nineteenth-Century Pacific Northwest Plateau ; MARY C. WRIGHT ; 8. Women at the Hustings: Gender, Citizenship, and the Montreal By-Elections of 1832 ; BETTINA BRADBURY (YORK UNIVERSITY) ; 9. Sewing for a Living: The Commodification of Metis Women's Artistic Production ; SHERRY FARELL RACETTE (UNIVERSITY OF REGINA) ; 10. 'A Fragment of Heaven on Earth'? Religion, Gender, and Family in Turn-of-the-Century Canadian Church Periodicals ; LYNNE MARKS (UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA) ; 11. Exclusion through Inclusion: Female Asian Migration in the Making of Canada as a White Settler Nation ; ENAKSHI DUA (YORK UNIVERSITY) ; 12. Divided by the Ballot Box: The Montreal Council of Women and the 1917 Election ; TARAH BROOKFIELD (SIR WILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY) ; 13. Sexual Assault and Disability: Saskatchewan, 1942 ; CONSTANCE BACKHOUSE (UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA) ; 14. Front Lines and Frontiers: War and Legitimate Work for Nurses, 1939-1945 ; CYNTHIA TOMAN (UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA) ; 15. Passing Time, Moving Memories: Interpreting Wartime Narratives of Japanese Canadian Women ; PAMELA SUGIMAN (RYERSON UNIVERSITY) ; 16. Balancing Equality for the Post-War Woman: Demobilizing Canada's Women Workers after World War II ; JENNIFER A. STEPHEN (YORK UNIVERSITY) ; 17. Recipes for Democracy? Gender, Family, and Making Female Citizens in Cold War Canada ; FRANCA IACOVETTA (UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO) ; 18. Rethinking Class in Lesbian Bar Culture: Living 'The Gay Life' in Toronto, 1955-1965 ; ELISE CHENIER (SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY) ; 19. Women's Liberation and the [Quebec] 'Nation', 1969-1975 ; SEAN MILLS (MCGILL UNIVERSITY) ; 20. Spectacular Striptease: Performing the Sexual and Racial Other in Vancouver, BC, 1945-1975 ; BECKI L. ROSS (UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA) AND KIM GREENWELL (UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA) ; 21. Women's Class Strategies as Activism in Native Community Building in Toronto, 1950-1975 ; HEATHER HOWARD ; 22. The Evolution of the Birth Control Handbook: From Student Peer-Education Manual to Feminist Self-Empowerment, 1968-1975 ; CHRISTABELLE SETHNA (UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA) ; 23. Whose Social Reproduction? Transnational Motherhood and Challenges to Feminist Political Economy ; SEDEF ARAT-KOC (RYERSON UNIVERSITY) ; 24. Gender, Sovereignty, and the Discourse of Rights in Native Women's Activism ; JOANNE BARKER ; CONTRIBUTORS ; INDEX
Tamara Myers is associate professor of history at the University of British Columbia. In addition to teaching women's history at UBC, she is actively researching in French-Canadian women's history and childhood history. Selected publications include Caught: Montreal's Modern Girls and the Law, 1869-1945 (2006), and Negotiating Identities in 19th- and 20th-Century Montreal (edited with Bettina Bradbury, 2005).
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