Sisters or Strangers? : : Immigrant, Ethnic, and Racialized Women in Canadian History, Second Edition / / ed. by Franca Iacovetta, Marlene Epp.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press Complete eBook-Package 2016
• MitwirkendeR: Androsoff, Ashleigh,; Barber, Marilyn,; Bertram, Laurie K.,; Bonifacio, Glenda Tibe,; Cancian, Sonia,; Chilton, Lisa,; Cooper, Afua,; Draper, Paula J.,; Dua, Enakshi,; Epp, Marlene,; Erickson, Lesley,; Flynn, Karen,; Guard, Julie,; Iacovetta, Franca,; Jones-Gailani, Nadia,; Keough, Willeen G.,; Korinek, Valerie J.,; Lindström, Varpu,; Madokoro, Laura,; Mar, Lisa R.,; McLean, Lorna R.,; Mina, Noula,; Miranda, Susana,; Morgan, Cecilia,; Perry, Adele,; Raine, Kim,; Sanders Johnson, Grace L.,; Sugiman, Pamela,; Swyripa, Frances,; Vallianatos, Helen,
• HerausgeberIn: Epp, Marlene,; Iacovetta, Franca,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2022]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Edition: 2nd Edition
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in Gender and History
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (624 p.) :; 20 b&w illustrations

Spanning more than two hundred years of history, from the eighteenth century to the twenty-first, Sisters or Strangers? explores the complex lives of immigrant, ethnic, and racialized women in Canada. Among the themes examined in this new edition are the intersection of race, crime, and justice, the creation of white settler societies, letters and oral histories, domestic labour, the body, political activism, food studies, gender and ethnic identity, and trauma, violence, and memory.The second edition of this influential essay collection expands its chronological and conceptual scope with fifteen new essays that reflect the latest cutting-edge research in Canadian women’s history. Introductions to each thematic section include discussion questions and suggestions for further reading, making the book an even more valuable classroom resource than before.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART ONE Race, Crime, and Justice -- Introduction -- A New Biography of the African Diaspora: The Life and Death of Marie-Joseph Angélique, Black Portuguese Slave Women in New France, 1725–1 -- Unpacking the Discursive Irish Woman Immigrant in Eighteenthand Nineteenth-Century Newfoundland -- The Tale of Lin Tee: Madness, Family Violence, and Lindsay’s Anti-Chinese Riot of 1919 -- PART TWO The Making of White Settler Societies -- Turning Strangers into Sisters? Missionaries and Colonization in Upper Canada -- Whose Sisters and What Eyes? White Women, Race, and Immigration to British Columbia, 1849–1871 -- Exclusion through Inclusion: Female Asian Migration in the Making of Canada as a White Settler Nation -- PART THREE Letters and Tales of Settlement and Longing -- Introduction -- Letters “Home” from Canada: British Female Emigrants and the Imperial Family of Women -- The Interplay of Ethnicity and Gender: Swedish Women in Southeastern Saskatchewan -- From Montreal and Venice with Love: Migrant Letters and Romantic Intimacy in Italian Migration to Postwar Canada -- PART FOUR Labouring Domestics and Canadian Constraints -- In Search of Comfort and Independence: Irish Immigrant Domestic Servants Encounter the Courts, Jails, and Asylums in Nineteenth-Century Ontario -- Taming and Training Greek “Peasant Girls” and the Gendered Politics of Whiteness in Postwar Canada: Canadian Bureaucrats and Immigrant Domestics, 1950s–1960s -- I Care for You, Who Cares for Me? Transitional Services of Filipino Live-in Caregivers in Canada -- PART FIVE Constructing Symbols and Bodies -- Fashioning Conflicts: Gender, Power, and Icelandic Immigrant Hair and Clothing in North America, 1874–1933 -- A Larger Frame: “Redressing” the Image of Doukhobor Canadian Women in the Twentieth Century -- Propaganda and Identity Construction: Media Representation in Canada of Finnish and Finnish Canadian Women during the Winter War of 1939–1940 -- PART SIX Activists and Political Subjects -- Introduction -- Canadian Citizens or Dangerous Foreign Women? Canada’s Radical Consumer Movement, 1947–1950 -- Haitian Feminist Diasporic Lakou: Haitian Women’s Community Organizing in Montreal, 1960–1980 -- “An Unlikely Collection of Union Militants”: Portuguese Immigrant Cleaning Women Become Political Subjects in Postwar Toronto -- PART SEVEN Food, Family, and Culture -- The Semiotics of Zwieback: Feast and Famine in the Narratives of Mennonite Refugee Women -- Jell-O Salads, One-Stop Shopping, and Maria the Homemaker: The Gender Politics of Food -- Consuming Food and Constructing Identities among Arabic and South Asian Immigrant Women -- PART EIGHT History, Identity, and Belonging PART EIGHT History, Identity, and Belonging -- “Slotting” Chinese Families and Refugees, 1947–1967 -- Experience and Identity: Black Immigrant Nurses to Canada, 1950–1980 -- The Mother of God Wears a Maple Leaf: History, Gender, and Ethnic Identity in Sacred Space -- PART NINE Trauma, Violence, and Memory -- Surviving Their Survival: Women, Memory, and the Holocaust -- “Days You Remember”: Japanese Canadian Women and the Violence of Internment -- Feminist Oral History and Assessing the Duelling Narratives of Iraqi Women in Diaspora -- Contributors -- Credits