Rethinking Canada - The Promise of Women's History

Klappentext This now standard text examines key developments in Canadian history--form the founding of New France to the present--while highlighting the distinctive texture of women's experiences and identities. Of the 24 articles! 16 are new. Topics now include widows and orphans in 18th-century Quebec! women and slavery in early Canada! aboriginal/non-aboriginal marriage in colonial Canada! housewives in the Great Depression! wartime narratives of Japanese-Canadian women! lesbian bar cultures in the 1950s and 60s! and feminist discourse after the 9/11 attacks.

Product details

• Authors: Veronica (EDT)/ Gleason Strong-Boag
• Assisted by: Mona Gleason (Editor), Adele Perry (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.06.2006
• EAN: 9780195423501
• ISBN: 978-0-19-542350-1
• No. of pages: 400
• Dimensions: 184 mm x 229 mm x 19 mm
• Subject: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous