Gender Conflicts : New Essays in Women's History /

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In the early 1970s, when women's history began to claim attention as an emerging discipline in North American universities, it was dominated by a middle-class Anglo-Saxon bias. Today the field is much more diverse, a development reflected in the scope of this volume. Rather than documenting the...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Valverde, Mariana, 1955- (Editor), Iacovetta, Franca, 1957- (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Toronto, Ont. : University of Toronto Press, 1992.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Frau.
Aufsatzsammlung
Geschichte
Frau
Women.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
HISTORY > General.
Femmes > Ontario > Histoire.
Femmes > Canada > Histoire.
Women > Ontario > History.
Women > Canada > History.
Kanada.
Kanada
Ontario.
Canada.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 'When the mother of the race is free' : race, reproduction, and sexuality in first-wave feminism / Mariana Valverde
  • 'Maidenly girls' or 'designing women'? The crime of seduction in turn-of-the-century Ontario / Karen Dubinsky
  • The 'hallelujah lasses' : working-class women in the Salvation Army in English Canada, 1882-92 / Lynne Marks
  • The alchemy of politicization : socialist women and the early Canadian left / Janice Newton
  • Wounded womanhood and dead men : chivalry and the trials of Clara Ford and Carrie Davies / Carolyn Strange
  • Class, ethnicity, and gender in the Eaton strikes of 1912 and 1934 / Ruth A. Frager
  • 'Feminine trifles of vast importance' : writing gender into the history of consumption / Cynthia Wright
  • Making 'new Canadians' : social workers, women, and the reshaping of immigrant families / Franco Iacovetta.

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