Creating Historical Memory

English-Canadian Women and the Work of History
Herausgeber: Boutilier, Beverly

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Produktbeschreibung

This engaging collection of essays seeks to create an awareness of the contributions made by women to history and the historical profession from 1870 to 1970 in English Canada.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 1998
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 36mm
• Gewicht: 426g
• ISBN-13: 9780774806411
• ISBN-10: 0774806419
• Artikelnr.: 41608387

Autorenporträt

Beverly Boutilier is currently an advisor to theWomen¿s Studies Program of CUSO in Indonesia. AlisonPrentice is one of Canadäs most distinguishedhistorians of women. She is one of the authors of the pathbreakingCanadian Women: A History and has worked on numerous books onthe history of women in Canada. She currently resides in Victoria, B.C.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Locating Women in the Work of History / BeverlyBoutilier and
Alison Prentice
 
Part 1: Community Building
Cultivating a Love of Canada through History: Agnes Maule Machar,1837-1927
/ Dianne M. Hallman
Women's Rights and Duties: Sarah Anne Curzon and the Politics ofCanadian
History / Beverly Boutilier
The Ontario Women's Institutes and the Work of Local History /Linda Ambrose
 
Part 2: Transitions
'Writing Teaches Us Our Mysteries': Women ReligiousRecording and Writing
History / Elizabeth Smythe
'I walk my own track in life & no mere male can bump me offit': Constance
Lindsay Skinner and the Work of History / JeanBarman
Isabel Skelton: Precursor to Canadian Cultural History / TerryCrowley
 
Part 3: The Academy
Laying Siege to the History Professoriate / AlisonPrentice
A View from the Front Steps: Esther Clark Wright and the Making of
aMaritime Historian / Barry M. Moody
Kathleen Wood-Legh: A Canadian in Cambridge / Megan Davies andColin Coates
 
Part 4: New Departures
Women's History: Founding a New Field / DeborahGorham
 
Index