For Home, Country, and Race

Stephen J Heathorn

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Gender and History
• The crucial role of compulsory schooling in the fostering of national identities is dynamically demonstrated in Stephen Heathorn's study of the elemen... 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

Agents of Empire

Lisa Chilton

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Gender and History
• The period between the 1860s and the 1920s saw a wave of female migration from Britain to Canada and Australia, much of which was managed by women. In... 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

Documenting First Wave Feminisms, Volume II

Nancy Forestell, Maureen Moynagh

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Gender and History
• This book is the second of a two-volume anthology of primary source documents on feminism in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Unique in i... 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

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

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

Sit Down and Drink Your Beer

Robert A Campbell

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Gender and History
• When public drinking returned to much of Canada with the end of Prohibition, former hotel saloons were transformed into closely regulated beer parlour... Lees meer

Contesting Bodies and Nation in Canadian History

Patrizia Gentile, Jane Nicholas

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Gender and History
• From fur coats to nude paintings, and from sports to beauty contests, the body has been central to the literal and figurative fashioning of ourselves ... 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

Agents of Empire

Lisa Chilton

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Gender and History
• The period between the 1860s and the 1920s saw a wave of female migration from Britain to Canada and Australia, much of which was managed by women. In... 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

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

On the Edge of Empire

Adele Perry

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Gender and History
• "On the Edge of Empire" is a well-written, carefully researched, and persuasively argued book that delineates the centrality of race and gender in the... 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

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

Sex and the Married Girl

Heather Stanley

• Paperback | 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

Women Without Men

Marlene Epp

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Gender and History
• Marlene Epp, who has written extensively on Mennonite history, presents here the story of thousands of Soviet Mennonite women who, having lost their h... 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

Strangers in Our Midst

Elise Chenier

• Hardcover | 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

Sit Down and Drink Your Beer

Robert A Campbell

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Gender and History
• When public drinking returned to much of Canada with the end of Prohibition, former hotel saloons were transformed into closely regulated beer parlour... 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

Intimate Integration

Allyson Stevenson

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Gender and History
• Privileging Indigenous voices and experiences, Intimate Integration documents the rise and fall of North American transracial adoption projects, inclu... Lees meer