Moving Beyond Borders

Karen Flynn

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Gender and History
• Moving Beyond Borders is the first book-length history of Black health care workers in Canada, delving into the experiences of thirty-five postwar-era... Lees meer

Radical Housewives

Julie Guard

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Gender and History
• Radical Housewives is a history of Canada's Housewives Consumers Association. This association was a community-based women's organization with ties to... Lees meer

Constance Maynard's Passions

Pauline A Phipps

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Gender and History
• Successful but self-tormented, English educational pioneer Constance Maynard (1849-1935) was a deeply religious evangelical Christian whose personal a... Lees meer

Perogies and Politics

Rhonda L Hinther

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Gender and History
• In Perogies and Politics , Rhonda Hinther explores the twentieth-century history of the Ukrainian left in Canada from the standpoint of the women, men... Lees meer

Purchasing Power

Donica Belisle

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Gender and History
• Exploring the roots of Canadian consumer culture between the 1890s and the Second World War, Purchasing Power uncovers the meanings that Canadians hav... Lees meer

Household Politics

Magda Fahrni

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Gender and History
• The reconstruction of Canadian society in the wake of the Second World War had an enormous impact on all aspects of public and private life. For famil... Lees meer

Caught

Tamara Myers

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Gender and History
• From the late nineteenth century to the Second World War, a 'young and modern' girl problem emerged in Montreal in the context of social and cultural ... Lees meer

The Modern Girl

Jane Nicholas

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Gender and History
• With her short skirt, bobbed hair, and penchant for smoking, drinking, dancing, and jazz, the "Modern Girl" was a fixture of 1920s Canadian consumer c... Lees meer

Cartographies of Violence

Mona Oikawa

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Gender and History
• In 1942, the federal government expelled more than 22,000 Japanese Canadians from their homes in British Columbia. From 1942 to 1949, they were dispos... Lees meer

Sex and the Married Girl

Heather Stanley

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Gender and History
• Sex - who was having it, who shouldn't have it, and who was supposed to be having it but wasn't - was a major concern to social authorities in the imm... Lees meer

Breadwinning Daughters

Katrina Srigley

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Gender and History
• As one of the most difficult periods of the twentieth century, the Great Depression left few Canadians untouched. Using more than eighty interviews wi... Lees meer

Revivals and Roller Rinks

Lynne Marks

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Gender and History | nr. 5
• In this examination of the social and cultural meanings of religion and leisure in nineteenth-century small-town Ontario, Lynne Marks looks inside chu... Lees meer

Giving Birth in Canada, 1900-1950

Wendy Mitchinson

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Gender and History | nr. 19
• In Giving Birth in Canada , the first historical study of childbirth in Canada, Wendy Mitchinson has written a fascinating account of childbirth ritua... Lees meer

Paddling Her Own Canoe

Veronica Strong-Boag, Carole Gerson

• Hardcover | Studies in Gender and History
• The only major scholarly study that examines E. Pauline Johnson's diverse roles as a First Nations champion, New Woman, serious writer and performer, ... Lees meer

Sisters or Strangers?

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Gender and History
• Spanning more than two hundred years of history, from the eighteenth century to the twenty-first, Sisters or Strangers? explores the complex lives of ... Lees meer

Strangers in Our Midst

Elise Chenier

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Gender and History
• Contemporary efforts to treat sex offenders are rooted in the post-Second World War era, in which an unshakable faith in science convinced many Canadi... Lees meer

The Viking Immigrants

L K Bertram

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Gender and History
• A Viking statue, a coffee pot, a ghost story, and a controversial cake: What can the things that immigrants treasured tell us about their history? Bet... Lees meer

Prairie Fairies

Valerie Korinek

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Gender and History
• Prairie Fairies draws upon a wealth of oral, archival, and cultural histories to recover the experiences of queer urban and rural people in the prairi... Lees meer

Before Official Multiculturalism

Franca Iacovetta

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Gender and History
• For almost two decades before Canada officially adopted multiculturalism in 1971, a large network of women and their allies in Toronto were promoting ... Lees meer

Paddling Her Own Canoe

Veronica Strong-Boag, Carole Gerson

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Gender and History
• Frequently dismissed as a 'nature poet' and an 'Indian Princess' E. Pauline Johnson (1861-1913) was not only an accomplished thinker and writer but a ... Lees meer

Wisdom, Justice and Charity

Suzanne Morton

• Hardcover | Studies in Gender and History
• In Wisdom, Justice, and Charity, historian Suzanne Morton uses Jane B. Wisdom's professional life to explore how the welfare state was built from the ... Lees meer

Documenting First Wave Feminisms

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Gender and History
• Contemporary feminists are used to juggling many different identities at once, balancing affiliations based on race, nation, class, and sexuality. Fir... Lees meer

Widows in White

Linda Reeder

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Gender and History | nr. 22
• The transnational migrations of the early twentieth century had a profound impact on the lives of many people, but none more so than those who were le... Lees meer

Earning Respect

Joan Sangster

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Gender and History | nr. 2
• Between 1920 and 1960 wage-earning women in factories and offices experienced dramatic shifts in their employment conditions, the result of both the D... Lees meer