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Minds of our own : inventing feminist scholarship and women's studies in Canada and Québec, 1966-76 /

This book of personal essays by over forty women and men who founded women's studies in Canada and Qu?c explores feminist activism on campus in the pivotal decade of 1966-76. The essays document the emergence of women's studies as a new way of understanding women, men, and society, and the...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Robbins, Wendy, 1948-2017
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Waterloo, Ont. : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, ©2008.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Women's organizations (before 1960)
  • Women's changing social positon
  • The women's movement of the 1960s and 1970s
  • Women in post-secondary education
  • Feminist scholarship and women's studies
  • Creating a tradition of Canadian women writers and feminsist literary criticism / Clara Thomas
  • Mother was not a person, so I become a feminist / Marguerite Andersen
  • Fanning fires: Women's studies in a school of social work / Helen Levine with Faith Schneider
  • Feminism: A critcal theory of knowledge / Marie-Andrée Bertrand
  • Women's studies: A personal story / Dorothy E. Smith
  • Contributing to the establishment of women's studies and gender relations / Anita Caron
  • Feminism and a scholarly friendship / Jill Ker Conway and Natalie Zemon Davis
  • Midwife to the birth of women's studies at McGill / Margaret Gillett
  • How the Simone de Beauvoir Institute of Concordia University grew from unlikely beginnings / Maïr Verthyuy
  • Moments in the making of a feminist historian / Alison Prentice
  • Doing feminist studies without knowing it / Micheline Dumont
  • A matrix of creativity / Frieda Johles Forman
  • Transforming the academy and the world / Deborah Gorham
  • Reminiscences of a male supporter of the movement towrds women's liberation and social equality / Leslie Marshall
  • You just had to be there / Greta Hofmann Nemiroff
  • The second wave: A personal voyage / Sandra Pyke
  • A lifetime of struggles to belong / Vanaja Dhruvarajan
  • Once upon a time there was the feminist movements ... and then there was feminist studies / Nadia Fahmy-Eid
  • Women's studies at he University of Alberta / Rosalind Sydie, Patricia Prestwich, and Dallas Cullen
  • Women's studies and the trajectory of women in academe / Annette Kolodny
  • Women's studies at Simon Fraser University, 1966-76: A dialogue / Andrea Lebowitz, Honoree Newcombe, and Meredith M. Kimball
  • Nascent, incipient, embryonic, and ceremonial women's studies / Linda Christiansen-Ruffman
  • To challenge the world / Margrit Eichler
  • From male and female roles to sex and gender relations: A scientific and political trajectory / Danielle Juteau
  • Second wave breaks on the shore of U of T / Lorna Marsden
  • Surviving political science ... and loving it / Jill Vickers
  • Blood on the chapel floor: Adventures in women's studies / Kay Armatage
  • Genesis of a journal / Donna E. Smyth
  • The saga / Marylee Stephenson
  • Coming fo age with women's studies / Meredith M. Kimball
  • Doing women's studies / Pat Armstrong
  • Pioneer in feminist political economy: Overcoming the disjuncture / Joan McFarland
  • Women's studies at Guelph / Terry Crowley
  • Women's studies: Oppression and liberation in the university / Meg Luxton
  • Reflections on teaching and writing feminist philosophy in the 1970s / Susan Sherwin
  • From marginalized to "establishment": Doing feminist sociology in Canada, Australia, and New Zealand / Maureen Baker
  • "To ring true and stand for something" / Wendy Robbins
  • Socialist feminist and activist educator / Linda Briskin
  • My path to feminist philosophy, 1970-76 / Christine Overall
  • Women's sight: Looking backwards into women's studies in Toronto / Ceta Ramkhalawansingh
  • The patriarchal context
  • Countervailing social movements
  • Intersections of gender, racialization, class, and sexual orientation
  • Inventing a new scholarship and new sturctures
  • Disciplinarity and/or interdisciplinarity
  • Student-teacher relations
  • Personal impacts
  • Interesting times.