Through feminist eyes : : essays on Canadian women's history / / Joan Sangster.

• VerfasserIn: Sangster, Joan, 1952-,
• Place / Publishing House: Edmonton [Alta.] : : AU Press,, [2011].; ©2011
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (429 pages)

Sangster sheds new light on issues that have sparked much debate among feminist historians.

Table of Contents

Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Discovering Women's History -- The 1907 Bell Telephone Strike: Organizing Women Workers -- Looking Backwards: Re-assessing Women on the Canadian Left -- The Communist Party and the Woman Question, 1922-1929 -- Manufacturing Consent in Peterborough -- The Softball Solution: Female Workers, Male Managers, and the Operation of Paternalism at Westclox, 1923-1960 -- 'Pardon Tales ' from Magistrate's Court: Women, Crime, and the Court in Peterborough County, 1920-1950 -- Telling our Stories: Feminist Debates and the Use of Oral History -- Foucault, Feminism, and Postcolonialism -- Girls in Conflict with the Law: Exploring the Construction of Female 'Delinquency' in Ontario, 1940-1960 -- Criminalizing the Colonized: Ontario Native Women Confront the Criminal Justice System, 1920-1960 -- Constructing the 'Eskimo' Wife: White Women's Travel Writing, Colonialism, and the Canadian North, 1940-1960 -- Embodied Experience -- Words of Experience/Experiencing Words: Reading Working Women's Letters to Canada's Royal Commission on the Status of Women -- Making a fur Coat: Women, the Labouring Body, and Working-class History -- Publications by Joan Sangster -- Publication Credits.