Through Feminist Eyes: Essays on Canadian Women's History
Joan Sangster
Language: English
Pages: 440
ISBN: 1926836189
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
In Through Feminist Eyes, historian Joan Sangster uses a selection of her writings, published over a period of three decades, as a gateway into reflections on the themes and theoretical concerns that have shaped both the writing of women’s history in Canada and her own evolution as a feminist historian. As in the original essays themselves, she brings to these reflections her distinctive combination of insight, honesty, and impeccable scholarship.
May 1938. 73 AO, Mercer, Case File 113170. 74 Mary Odem, “Single Mothers, Delinquent Daughters and the Juvenile Court in Early 20th Century Los Angeles,” Journal of Social History 25, no. 1 (1991): 27–43. In Odem’s study, parents were primarily motivated by need for their daughters’ wages. In this case, parents appear especially concerned with control of their daughter’s sexuality. Women’s economic contribution to the household was the concern of some families, who wrote asking/demanding
than reality,”65 then will we not come to discount women’s agency as a force in history? While Margaret’s understanding of her resistance during the strike is couched in a narrative of humour and disparagement, this does not negate her momentary courage in the face of many structural constraints: her attempt to remake her own and other women’s history should not be diminished in any way. So, it is true that women’s stories of the strike appear dissimilar. Women have forgotten their role in the
domestic focus of the all-male community, a surrogate mother or sister to other local white, single men, helping to celebrate birthdays and provide domestic rituals and Xmas celebrations. Moreover, in the post-World War II period, white women were increasingly welcomed in the North, in feminized professions (as nurses and teachers), and also as wives of fur traders. The earlier HBC practice of traders marrying Indigenous women was now discouraged and every effort was made to make the white HBC
(Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2007), 8. 22 Carolyn Steedman, “The Price of Experience: Women and the Making of the English Working Class,” Radical History Review 59 (1994): 108–19. 23 Linda Gordon, interview in Visions of History (New York: Pantheon, 1983), 77. 24 Sewell, “How Classes Are Made.” 25 Eley and Nield, The Future of Class, 105. 26 Contra Scott, who argues that “experience was reintroduced into historical writing in the wake of critiques of empiricism”: Joan Scott, “The
on Bliss, I am concentrating here on the second piece, for which I have only the published version. I requested the unpublished one, but Jim Miller no longer has a copy. Note that while Parr uses words like “ferocious and hostile” to characterize critics generally, but not Miller and Bliss specifically, these are the only two historians cited. 108 Note that, in the published version at least, Miller does not quote von Ranke as his guide, but rather as an influence on historians. In Parr’s piece,