Through feminist eyes : essays on Canadian women's history

Sangster, Joan 1952- (Author).

Summary: "Approaching her subject matter from an array of interpretive frameworks that engage questions of gender, class, colonialism, politics, and labour, Sangster explores the lived experience of women in a variety of specific historical settings. In so doing, she sheds new light on issues that have sparked much debate among feminist historians and offers a thoughtful overview of the evolution of women's history in Canada." --publisher's website

Record details

ISBN: 1926836189 (Paper)
ISBN: 9781926836188 (Paper)
Physical Description: print
Publisher: Edmonton : AU Press, c2011.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Introduction: Reflections on Thirty Years of Women's History -- Discovering Women's History -- The 1907 Bell Telephone Strike: Organizing Women Workers -- Looking Backwards: Re-assessing Women on the Canadian Left -- The Communist Party and the Woman Question, 1922-1929 -- Manufacturing Consent in Peterborough -- The Softball Solution: Female Workers, Male Managers, and the Operation of Paternalism at Westclox, 1923-1960 -- Pardon Tales' from Magistrate's Court: Women, Crime, and the Court in Peterborough County, 1920-1950 -- Telling Our Stories: Feminist Debates and the Use of Oral History -- Foucault, Feminism, and Postcolonialism -- Girls in Conflict with the Law: Exploring the Construction of Female 'Delinquency' in Ontario, 1940-1960 -- Criminalizing the Colonized: Ontario Native Women Confront the Criminal Justice System, 1920-1960 -- Constructing the 'Eskimo' Wife: White Women's Travel Writing, Colonialism, and the Canadian North, 1940-1960 -- Embodied Experience -- Words of Experience/Experiencing Words: Reading Working Women's Letters to Canada's Royal Commission on the Status of Women -- Making a Fur Coat: Women, the Labouring Body, and Working-class History.
Additional Physical Form available Note:	Also available online.