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Canadian Women Now and Then

Author : Elizabeth MacLeod
Publisher : Kids Can Press Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1525305204
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (253 download)

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Download or read book Canadian Women Now and Then written by Elizabeth MacLeod and published by Kids Can Press Ltd. This book was released on 2020-04-07 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A timely and relevant collection of stories about groundbreaking Canadian women, present and past. Canadian women have long been trailblazers, often battling incredible odds and discrimination in the process. Here are biographies of more than one hundred of these remarkable women, from the famous to the lesser known. There are activists and architects, engineers and explorers, poets and politicians and so many more. Each category pairs a historical groundbreaker with a present-day woman making her mark in that same field. Together, these women tell the story of Canada. And together, they offer a vision of what’s possible. A unique look at Canadian history sure to inspire all children to blaze trails of their own.

Working Women in Canada

Author : Leslie Nichols
Publisher : Women's Press
ISBN 13 : 0889616000
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (896 download)

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Download or read book Working Women in Canada written by Leslie Nichols and published by Women's Press. This book was released on 2019-08-23 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this edited collection, Leslie Nichols weaves together the contributions of accomplished and diverse scholars to offer an expansive and critical analysis of women’s work in Canada. Students will use an intersectional approach to explore issues of gender, class, race, immigrant status, disability, sexual orientation, Indigeneity, age, and ethnicity in relation to employment. Drawing from case studies and extensive research, the text’s eighteen chapters consider Canadian industries across a broad spectrum, including political, academic, sport, sex trade, retail, and entrepreneurial work. Working Women in Canada is a relevant and in-depth look into the past, present, and future of women’s responsibilities and professions in Canada. Undergraduate and graduate students in gender studies, labour studies, and sociology courses will benefit from this thorough and intersectional approach to the study of women’s labour.

Canadian Women in Print, 1750–1918

Author : Carole Gerson
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
ISBN 13 : 1554582393
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (545 download)

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Download or read book Canadian Women in Print, 1750–1918 written by Carole Gerson and published by Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. This book was released on 2011-05-24 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Canadian Women in Print, 1750—1918 is the first historical examination of women’s engagement with multiple aspects of print over some two hundred years, from the settlers who wrote diaries and letters to the New Women who argued for ballots and equal rights. Considering women’s published writing as an intervention in the public sphere of national and material print culture, this book uses approaches from book history to address the working and living conditions of women who wrote in many genres and for many reasons. This study situates English Canadian authors within an extensive framework that includes francophone writers as well as women’s work as compositors, bookbinders, and interveners in public access to print. Literary authorship is shown to be one point on a spectrum that ranges from missionary writing, temperance advocacy, and educational texts to journalism and travel accounts by New Woman adventurers. Familiar figures such as Susanna Moodie, L.M. Montgomery, Nellie McClung, Pauline Johnson, and Sara Jeannette Duncan are contextualized by writers whose names are less well known (such as Madge Macbeth and Agnes Laut) and by many others whose writings and biographies have vanished into the recesses of history. Readers will learn of the surprising range of writing and publishing performed by early Canadian women under various ideological, biographical, and cultural motivations and circumstances. Some expressed reluctance while others eagerly sought literary careers. Together they did much more to shape Canada’s cultural history than has heretofore been recognized.

Reading Canadian Women’s and Gender History

Author : Nancy Janovicek
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442629738
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)

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Download or read book Reading Canadian Women’s and Gender History written by Nancy Janovicek and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2019-05-06 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Along a River

Author : Jan Noel
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442698268
Total Pages : 499 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)

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Download or read book Along a River written by Jan Noel and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2013-08-30 with total page 499 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: French-Canadian explorers, traders, and soldiers feature prominently in this country's storytelling, but little has been written about their female counterparts. In Along a River, award-winning historian Jan Noel shines a light on the lives of remarkable French-Canadian women — immigrant brides, nuns, tradeswomen, farmers, governors' wives, and even smugglers — during the period between the settlement of the St. Lawrence Lowlands and the Victorian era. Along a River builds the case that inside the cabins that stretched for miles along the shoreline, most early French-Canadian women retained old fashioned forms of economic production and customary rights over land ownership. Noel demonstrates how this continued even as the world changed around them by comparing their lives to those of their contemporaries in France, England, and New England.Exploring how the daughters and granddaughters of the filles du roi adapted to their terrain, turned their hands to trade, and even acquired surprising influence at the French court, Along a River is an innovative and engagingly written history.

Greenwor(l)ds

Author : Diana M. A. Relke
Publisher : University of Calgary Press
ISBN 13 : 1552380173
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (523 download)

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Download or read book Greenwor(l)ds written by Diana M. A. Relke and published by University of Calgary Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Relke (women's and gender studies, U. of Saskatchewan) divides her book into what she calls three chronological "moments in feminist ecocritical consciousness": poetic, ecological, and ecocritical. Essays included under poetic consciousness are preoccupied with woman's search for subjectivity in a literary universe that can't accommodate women poets of nature, examining, for example, Atwood's Journals of Susanna Moodie. To ecological consciousness, Relke assigns essays examining how Dorothy Livesay, Isabella Valancy Crawford and Daphne Marlatt understand the metaphor, woman = nature, and how they use it to address green concerns. Lastly, essays under ecocritical consciousness focus on the critical act itself and on the masculine construction of Canadian literary history. The book's constant theme, writes Relke, "concerns the struggle by women poets to make the best of a bad idea--namely, patriarchy." Canadian card order number: C99-910815-8. Distribute by Raincoast Distribution Services. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.

Breaking Barriers, Shaping Worlds

Author : Jill Campbell-Miller
Publisher : UBC Press
ISBN 13 : 0774866438
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (748 download)

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Download or read book Breaking Barriers, Shaping Worlds written by Jill Campbell-Miller and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2021-11-01 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Where are the women in Canada’s international history? Breaking Barriers, Shaping Worlds gathers scholars to explore the role of women in twentieth-century Canadian international affairs. They examine the lives and careers of professionals employed abroad as doctors, nurses, or economic development advisors; those fighting for change as anti-war, anti-nuclear, or Indigenous rights activists; and women working as diplomatic spouses or as diplomats themselves. This lively, wide-ranging collection reveals the vital contribution of women to the search for global order that has been a hallmark of Canada’s international history.

Leading the Way

Author : Julie A. Soloway
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780433487111
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (871 download)

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Download or read book Leading the Way written by Julie A. Soloway and published by . This book was released on 2015-09 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

World War Women

Author : Stacey Barker
Publisher : Souvenir Catalogue Series, 13
ISBN 13 : 9780660203119
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book World War Women written by Stacey Barker and published by Souvenir Catalogue Series, 13. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Experience the incredible determination, resilience and sacrifice of Canadian women during the First and Second World Wars. War brought enormous changes to Canadian women's lives. They adapted to the conditions of total war in practical terms ? working, volunteering and serving in uniform. In the wake of war's inevitable tragedies, they also faced other challenges. The contributions made by women to the Canadian war efforts were crucial, and their experiences forged a new understanding of women's capabilities both within themselves and within society. Through photographs, artwork, diaries and mementoes, including a Memorial Cross presented to the mother of a fallen soldier, this souvenir catalogue reveals deeply personal stories of life in service and on the home front.

Creating Historical Memory

Author : Beverly Boutilier
Publisher : UBC Press
ISBN 13 : 0774841648
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (748 download)

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Download or read book Creating Historical Memory written by Beverly Boutilier and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Canadian women have worked, individually and collectively, at home and abroad, as creators of historical memory. This engaging collection of essays seeks to create an awareness of the contributions made by women to history and the historical profession from 1870 to 1970 in English Canada. Creating Historical Memory explores the wide range of careers that women have forged for themselves as writers and preservers of history within, outside, and on the margins of the academy. The authors suggest some of the institutional and intellectual locations from which English Canadian women have worked as historians and attempt to problematize in different ways and to varying degrees, the relationship between women and historical practice.

Canadian Women and the Struggle for Equality

Author : Lorna R. Marsden
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780199025022
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (25 download)

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Download or read book Canadian Women and the Struggle for Equality written by Lorna R. Marsden and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What range of possibilities might appear on the horizon to a young woman today as she contemplates her future compared to those envisioned by a young woman 150 years ago? And how would her daily life be different? The degree of change in women's lives in Canada over the last 150 years is staggering, and much is the result of the fight for greater equality. How did this change take place? Establishing equality as a fact of daily life has been a protracted struggle, and one that remains far from finished. Over the last century and a half since Confederation, this struggle has taken on a unique character in Canada, given our country's peculiar circumstances. Lorna R. Marsden, sociologist and activist-who has herself been involved in the action-chronicles the circumstances, the people, and the social changes that have characterized women's journey down the long road toward equality. Her account considers changes brought about by such forces as war, immigration, and public health, as well as other complex historical changes, such as legal evolution and employment opportunities. This fascinating book is full of insight, little known facts (for example, many women could vote as early as 1791 in some parts of Canada), and an understanding of the complex ways that a society like Canada can and does change. It also reminds us that there is still a distance to go in the journey toward equality.

Independent Spirit

Author : A. K. Prakash
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book Independent Spirit written by A. K. Prakash and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents an introduction to a variety of Canadian women artists, from the 1800s to the present day.

Women and Popular Culture in Canada

Author : Laine Zisman Newman
Publisher : Women’s Press
ISBN 13 : 0889616159
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (896 download)

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Download or read book Women and Popular Culture in Canada written by Laine Zisman Newman and published by Women’s Press. This book was released on 2020-05-21 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book of its kind, this volume explores women and non-binary people in popular culture in Canada, with a focus on intersectional analysis of settler colonialism, race, white privilege, ability, and queer representations and experiences in diverse media. The chapters include discussions of film, television, videogames, music, and performance, as well as political events, journalism, social media, fandom, and activism. Throughout this collection, readers are encouraged to think carefully about the role women play in the cultural landscape in Canada as active viewers, creators, and participants. Covering a wide range of topics from historical perspectives to recent events, media, and technologies, this collection acts as an introduction, an archive, and a continuing commitment to lifting the voices and stories of women and popular culture in Canada. This book is a must-read for gender studies and media studies courses that focus on popular culture, Canadian feminism, and Canadian media. FEATURES includes questions for critical thought that stimulate discussion focuses on intersections of race, gender, ability, and sexuality provides contemporary Canadian content from an interdisciplinary and intersectional lens

A Sisterhood of Suffering and Service

Author : Sarah Glassford
Publisher : UBC Press
ISBN 13 : 0774822589
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (748 download)

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Download or read book A Sisterhood of Suffering and Service written by Sarah Glassford and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2012-04-15 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the body of First World War literature continues to grow, women’s experiences of this period remain largely obscure.This innovative collection addresses the invisibility of women in this literature, particularly with regard to Canadian and Newfoundland history. Drawing upon a multidisciplinary spectrum of recent work – studies on mobilizing women, paid and volunteer employment at home and overseas, grief, childhood, family life, and literary representations ?– this book brings Canadian and Newfoundland women and girls into the history of the First World War and marks their place in the narrative of national transformation.

Great Canadian Women

Author : Lisa Wojna
Publisher : Folklore Pub
ISBN 13 : 9781894864473
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (644 download)

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Download or read book Great Canadian Women written by Lisa Wojna and published by Folklore Pub. This book was released on 2005 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We want women leaders today as never before. Leaders who are not afraid to be called names and who are willing to go out and fight. I think women can save civilization. Women are persons.-Emily Murphy, 1931Emily Murphy and four other determined women took their fight to be legally declared persons all the way to the Privy Council in Britain, and in 1929 they won. Almost eight decades later, Canadian women continue to challenge their limits.Great Canadian Women honours the legacy and continuing struggle of women of talent and courage who, from all walks of life and vocations, have contributed significantly to Canada's evolution. These women and countless others have ignored or conquered society's strictures to fulfil their destinies and change forever their country:â€¢ Marion Orr, who ferried fighter planes to England during World War II and established flight schools in Ontarioâ€¢ Louise Arbour, the controversial Supreme Court Justice who was appointed United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights in 2004â€¢ Anne Murray, known as Canada's Songbird and the first Canadian artist to have an American gold recordâ€¢ Barbara Frum, the dedicated newscaster and journalist for CBC Radio who pioneered the popular and influential current affairs program As It Happensâ€¢ Rene Caisse, inventor of Essiac, a herbal remedy that has been touted as a cure for cancerâ€¢ Helen Huston, a medical missionary who brought health care and a hospital to the people of Nepalâ€¢ Charlotte Whitton, the brash and colourful mayor of Ottawa the first woman to hold such an office in Canadaâ€¢ Canadian Voice of Women for Peace, a national organization that promotes peace and disarmament to the international community.And many more...

Canada 150 Women

Author : Paulina Cameron
Publisher : Page Two Strategies
ISBN 13 : 9780995959125
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (591 download)

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Download or read book Canada 150 Women written by Paulina Cameron and published by Page Two Strategies. This book was released on 2017-11-17 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interviews with 150 Canadian women role models that discuss their lives and achievements, as well as how feminism has changed in their lifetimes and their visions for Canada.

Types of Canadian Women and of Women who are Or Have Been Connected with Canada

Author : Henry James Morgan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Types of Canadian Women and of Women who are Or Have Been Connected with Canada written by Henry James Morgan and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a collection of more than 350 biographical sketches of Canadian women, spanning three centuries. Each entry is contained on a single page, and presents a portrait of the woman. Many entries show a reproduction of the woman's handwritten signature. Woman are presented alphabetically by their married name, often including the woman’s date of birth and marriage, as well as a description of her husband and his accomplishments, their children, and her membership in societies and organizations. Overall, the sketches celebrate women’s primary roles as dutiful wife and mother and active community member. The majority of women Morgan features are white, upper-middle class, and married, those who prioritized traditional (i.e., heteronormative) family life. He also writes warmly, however, of women who were unmarried and forged successful careers in the arts – a fairly forward-thinking approach for the time. There is no question that Types of Canadian Women is a product of its time. Nonetheless, it provides a rare glimpse into the lives of women in Canada, recording many important milestones and achievements that otherwise may have been lost. For contemporary readers, the publication is exciting to peruse for its many familiar names: philanthropists Lillian Massey, of the Massey manufacturers of agricultural equipment, and Grace Redpath, of Redpath Sugar fame; war heroine Laura Secord; and author Catharine Parr Traill.18 True, Morgan draws attention to the men in women’s lives. At the same time, however, he conveys respect for married women’s contributions to family life and single women’s career achievements alike, suggesting that value can be found in either path. His attitude was a progressive one for anyone – male or female – writing at the turn of the twentieth century.Book was published as the first of two volumes, but a second volume was never issued. Adapted from an essay by Tali Voron from the webpage, McGraw-Hill Ryerson Press Collection