Gender Conflicts : : New Essays in Women's History / / ed. by Franca Iacovetta, Mariana Valverde.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
• MitwirkendeR: Dubinsky, Karen,; Frager, Ruth A.,; Marks, Lynne,; Newton, Janice,; Strange, Carolyn,; Valverde, Mariana,; Wright, Cynthia,; lacovetta, Franca,
• HerausgeberIn: Iacovetta, Franca,; Valverde, Mariana,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]; ©1992
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (303 p.)

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 expe...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Contributors
• Introduction
• 1. ‘When the Mother of the Race Is Free’: Race, Reproduction, and Sexuality in First-Wave Feminism
• 2. ‘Maidenly Girls’ or ‘Designing Women’? The Crime of Seduction in Turn-of-the-Century Ontario
• 3. The ‘Hallelujah Lasses’: Working-Class Women in the Salvation Army in English Canada, 1882–92
• 4. The Alchemy of Politicization: Socialist Women and the Early Canadian Left
• 5. Wounded Womanhood and Dead Men: Chivalry and the Trials of Clara Ford and Carrie Davies
• 6. Class, Ethnicity, and Gender in the Eaton Strikes of 1912 and 1934
• 7. ‘Feminine Trifles of Vast Importance’: Writing Gender into the History of Consumption
• 8. Making ‘New Canadians’: Social Workers, Women, and the Reshaping of Immigrant Families