Wedded to the Cause : : Ukrainian-Canadian Women and Ethnic Identity 1891–1991 / / Frances Swyripa.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
• VerfasserIn: Swyripa, Frances,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019]; ©1993
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Heritage
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (344 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; Abbreviations --; Introduction: Queen Elizabeth the Ukrainian --; 1. Failing to Measure Up: The Peasant Immigrant --; 2. Jeopardizing the Future: Alienated and Rebellious Daughters --; 3. Models for Their Sex: Princess Olha and the Cossack Mother --; 4. Putting the Models to Work: Organizational Propaganda and Programs --; 5. Canadianizing a Legacy: Women's Organizations after the Second World War --; 6. Rehabilitating the Peasant Immigrant: Baba and the Canadianized Heroine --; Conclusion: Baba Meets the Queen --; Bibliographic Note --; Notes --; Index --; Illustration Credits
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781487584085; 9783110490947
• DOI: 10.3138/9781487584085
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Frances Swyripa.

Frances Swyripe here presents the interpretive study of women of Ukrainian origin in Canada. She analyses the images and myths that have grown up around them, why they arose, and how they were used by the leaders of the community. Swyripa argues that ethnicity combined with gender to shape the experience of Ukrainian-Canadian women, as statelessness and national oppression in the homeland joined with a negative group stereotype and minority status in emigration to influence women's roles and options. She explores community attitudes towards the peasant immigrant pioneer, towards her daughters exposed to the opportunities, prejudice, and assimilatory pressure of the Anglo-Canadian world, towards the 'Great Women' evoked as models and sources of inspiration, and towards the familiar baba. In these stereotypes of the female figure, and in the activities of women's organizations, the community played out its many tensions: between a strong attachment to canada and an equally strong attachment to Ukraine; between nationalists who sought to liberate Ukraine from Polish and Soviet rule and progressives who saw themselves as part of an international proletariat; between women's responsibilities as mothers and homemakers and their obligation to participate in both Canadian and community life. Swyripa finds that the concerns of community leaders did not always coincide with those of the grassroots. The differences were best expressed in the evolution of the peasant immigrant pioneer woman as a group symbol, where the tensions between a cultural ethnic consciousness and a politicized national consciousness as the core of Ukrainian-Canadian identity were played out in the female figure.