Great Dames /

Great Dames / / ed. by Elspeth Cameron, Janice Dickin.

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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 traditi...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
MitwirkendeR:
Buss, Helen M.,
Cameron, Elspeth,
Cole, Sally,
Cooper, Afua,
Dickin, Janice,
Epp, Marlene,
Gosztonyiainley, Marianne,
Herk, Aritha van,
Kadar, Marlene,
Mitchinson, Wendy,
Prentice, Alison,
Rasporich, Beverly,
Smart, Patricia,
Smyth, Donna,
Strange, Carolyn,
HerausgeberIn:
Cameron, Elspeth,
Dickin, Janice,
Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2017]
©1997
Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (304 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • Just the Facts?
  • ‘Write Down Everything Just as You Know It’: A Portrait of Ibolya Szalai Grossman
  • Victims of the Times, Heroes of Their Lives: Five Mennonite Refugee Women
  • Driving towards Death
  • Creating Facts
  • Dear Ruth: This Is the Story of Maggie Wilson, Ojibwa Ethnologist
  • Casting Light on Women in the Shadow of the Law: Toronto at the Turn of the Century
  • Struggle to Create
  • From Bovarysme to Automatisme (and Beyond): Thérèse Renaud and the Refus global Women
  • The Wrong Time and the Wrong Place: Gwethalyn Graham, 1913–1965
  • ‘Traditional’ Lives
  • Settling the Score with Myths of Settlement: Two Women Who Roughed It and Wrote It
  • Anna of Intola: A Finnish-Canadian Woman with Sisu
  • Soaring to New Heights: Changes in the Life Course of Mabel McIntosh
  • Breaking into ‘Men’s Professions’
  • Marion Milliard: ‘Raring to Go All the Time7
  • ‘By Title and by Virtue’: Lady Frederick and Dr Henrietta Ball Banting
  • Elizabeth Allin: Physicist
  • Giving Voice
  • ‘Out of a Cardboard Box beside Our Bed like a Baby’: The Founders of Sister Vision Press
  • Evelyn Garbary: ‘For Those of Us Whose Bones Are Stage Props’
  • Contributors
  • Illustration Credits
  • Index

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