In the early 1970s, when women’s history began to claim attention as an emerging discipline in North American universities, it was dominated by a middle-class Anglo-Saxon bias. Today the field is much more diverse, a development reflected in the scope of this volume.  Rather than documenting the experiences of women solely in a framework of gender analysis, its authors recognize the interaction of race, class, and gender as central in shaping women’s lives, and men’s. These essays represent an exciting breakthrough in women’s studies, expanding the borders of the discipline while breaking down barriers between mainstream and women’s history.
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These essays represent an exciting breakthrough in women’s studies, expanding the borders of the discipline while breaking down barriers between mainstream and women’s history.
Contents Contributors / Introduction 1 ‘When the Mother of the Race Is Free’: Race, Reproduction, and Sexuality in First-Wave Feminism Mariana Valverde 2 ‘Maidenly Girls’ or ‘Designing Women’? The Crime of Seduction in Turn-of-the-Century Ontario Karen Dubinsky 3 The ‘Hallelujah Lasses’: Working-Class Women in the Salvation Army in English Canada, 1882-92 Lynne Marks 4 The Alchemy of Politicization: Socialist Women and the Early Canadian Left Janice Newton 5 Wounded Womanhood and Dead Men: Chivalry and the Trials of Clara Ford and Carrie Davies Carolyn Strange 6 Class, Ethnicity, and Gender in the Eaton Strikes of 1912 and 1934 Ruth A. Frager 7 ‘Feminine Trifles of Vast Importance’: Writing Gender into the History of Consumption Cynthia Wright 8 Making ‘New Canadians’: Social Workers, Women, and the Reshaping of Immigrant Families Franca Iacovetta
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780802067739
Publisert
2002
Utgiver
Vendor
University of Toronto Press
Vekt
520 gr
Høyde
227 mm
Bredde
153 mm
Dybde
24 mm
Aldersnivå
UU, UP, P, 05, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet

Biographical note

Franca Iacovetta is a professor emerita of history at the University of Toronto. Mariana Valverde is a professor in the Department of Criminology at the University of Toronto.