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Inspired by the question of "what’s next?" in the field of Canadian women’s and gender history, this broadly historiographical volume represents a conversation among established and emerging scholars who share a commitment to understanding the past from intersectional feminist perspectives. It includes original essays on Quebecois, Indigenous, Black, and immigrant women’s histories and tackles such diverse topics as colonialism, religion, labour, warfare, sexuality, and reproductive labour and justice. Intended as a regenerative retrospective of a critically important field, this collection both engages analytically with the current state of women’s and gender historiography in Canada and draws on its rich past to generate new knowledge and areas for inquiry.
List of contents
Acknowledgments
1. Introduction: Feminist Conversations
Nancy Janovicek, University of Calgary and Carmen Nielson, Mount Royal University
2. Our Historiographical Moment: A Conversation about Indigenous Women’s History in Canada in the Early Twenty-First Century
Mary Jane Logan McCallum, University of Winnipeg and Susan M. Hill, University of Toronto
3. Writing Black Canadian Women’s History: Where We Have Been and Where We Are Going
Karen Flynn, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Funké Aladejebi, University of New Brunswick
4. Quebec Nationalism and the History of Women and Gender
Denyse Baillargeon, Université de Montréal
5. Class, Race, and Gender Roles in Early British North America
Katherine M.J. McKenna, Western University
6. Performative (Ir)rationality: Rethinking Agency in Canadian Histories of Gender, Religion, Reason, and Beyond
Beth A. Robertson, Carleton University
7. Home Fronts and Front Lines: A Gendered History of War and Peace
Tarah Brookfield, Wilfrid Laurier University and Sarah Glassford, University of Ottawa
8. Historical Feminisms in Canada to 1940: Further Reflections on the So-Called First Wave
Nancy Forestell, St. Francis Xavier University
9.
Never Done: Feminists Reinterpret Their Own History
Joan Sangster, Trent University
10. Beyond Sisters or Strangers: Feminist Immigrant Women’s History and Rewriting Canadian History
Marlene Epp, University of Waterloo and Franca Iacovetta, University of Toronto
11. Primal Urge/National Force: Sex, Sexuality, and National History
Heather Stanley, Vancouver Island University
12. Challenging Work: Feminist Scholarship on Women, Gender, and Work in Canadian History
Lisa Pasolli, Queen’s University and Julia Smith, University of Alberta
13. Realizing Reproductive Justice in Canadian History
Shannon Stettner, University of Waterloo, Kristin Burnett, Lakehead University, and Lori Chambers, Lakehead University
List of Contributors
Index
About the author
Edited by Nancy Janovicek and Carmen Nielson
Summary
By putting past and present scholarship into dialogue with each other, this book addresses accomplishments in Canadian women’s and gender history, as well as ongoing silences and absences.
