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"Great Dames is a collection of biographical sketches, memoirs, and essays about twentieth-century Canadian women from all walks of life. While attempting to capture the meaning of the ordinary lives of extraordinary women, it also explores the possibility of challenging, even subverting, the t...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Dickin, Janice, Cameron, Elspeth, 1943-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto, Ont. : University of Toronto Press, 1997.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Women.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Women.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Historical.
Femmes > Canada > Biographies.
Women > Canada > Biography.
Canada.
Canada > Biography.
Biographies.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 'Write down everything just as you know it'
  • Victims of the times, heroes of their lives
  • Driving towards death
  • Dear Ruth: this is the story of Maggie Wilson, Ojibwa ethnologist
  • Casting light on women in the shadow of the law
  • From Bovarysme to Automatisme (and beyond)
  • The wrong time and the wrong place
  • Settling the score with myths of settlement
  • Anna of Intola: a Finnish-Canadian woman with Sisu
  • Soaring to new heights
  • Marion Hilliard
  • 'By title and by virtue'
  • Elizabeth Allin
  • 'Out of a cardboard box beside our bed like a baby'
  • Evelyn Garbary.

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