Rethinking Canada: The Promise of Women's History

by Anita Clair Fellman

Book Overview

This now standard text examines key developments in Canadian history--form the founding of New France to the present--while highlighting the distinctive texture of women's experiences and identities. Of the 24 articles, 16 are new. Topics now include widows and orphans in 18th-century Quebec, women and slavery in early Canada, aboriginal/non-aboriginal marriage in colonial Canada, housewives in the Great Depression, wartime narratives of Japanese-Canadian women, lesbian bar cultures in the 1950s and 60s, and feminist discourse after the 9/11 attacks.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019542350X
• ISBN13: 9780195423501
• Release Date: June 2006
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.9" x 8.8"