Through Feminist Eyes : : Essays on Canadian Women's History / / Joan Sangster.

• VerfasserIn: Sangster, Joan,
• Place / Publishing House: Edmonton : : Athabasca University Press,, 2011.
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (vii, 429 pages)

Through Feminist Eyes gathers in one volume the most incisive and insightful essays written to date by the distinguished Canadian historian Joan Sangster. To the original essays, Sangster has added reflective introductory discussions that situate her earlier work in the context of developing theory and debate. Sangster has also supplied an introduction to the collection in which she reflects on the themes and theoretical orientations that have shaped the writing of women's history over the past thirty years. Approaching her subject matter from an array of interpretive frameworks that engage questions of gender, class, colonialism, politics, and labour, Sangster explores the lived experience of women in a variety of specific historical settings. In so doing, she sheds new light on issues that have sparked much debate among feminist historians and offers a thoughtful overview of the evolution of women's history in Canada.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Introduction Reflections on Thirty Years of Women's History 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 SolutionFemale Workers, Male Managers, and the Operation of Paternalism atWestclox, 1923-1960 Pardon Tales' from Magistrate's CourtWomen, Crime, and the Court in Peterborough County,1920-1950 Telling Our StoriesFeminist Debates and the Use of Oral History Foucault, Feminism, and Postcolonialism Girls in Conflict with the Law Exploring the Construction of Female 'Delinquency' inOntario, 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 RoyalCommission on the Status of Women Making a Fur CoatWomen, the Labouring Body, and Working-class History Publications by Joan Sangster Publication Credits.