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Feminist History in Canada

New Essays on Women, Gender, Work, and Nation

By: Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Department of History Nancy Janovicek,Catherine Carstairs

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Feminist History in Canada

New Essays on Women, Gender, Work, and Nation

By: Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Department of History Nancy Janovicek,Catherine Carstairs

In the late 1970s, feminists urged us to "rethink" Canada by placing women's experiences at the centre of historical analysis. Forty years later, women's and gender historians continue to take up the challenge, not only to interrogate the idea of nation but also to place their work in a global perspective. This volume showcases the work of scholars who draw on critical race theory, postcolonial theory, and transnational history to re-examine familiar topics such as biography and oral history, paid and unpaid work, marriage and family, and women's political action. Taken together, these exciting new essays demonstrate the continued relevance of history informed by feminist perspectives.

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UBC Press

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ISBN 10

0774826215

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9780774826211

No Place to Go

Local Histories of the Battered Women’s Shelter Movement

By: Nancy Janovicek

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Local Histories of the Battered Women’s Shelter Movement

By: Nancy Janovicek

The first history of the battered women's shelter movement in Canada, No Place to Go traces the development of transition houses and services for abused women and the campaign that made wife battering a political issue. Nancy Janovicek focuses on women's groups in small cities and rural communities, examining anti-violence activism in Thunder Bay, Kenora, Nelson, and Moncton. She also pays close attention to Aboriginal women in northwestern Ontario, where the connections between family violence and the devaluation of indigenous culture in Canadian society complicated effots to end domestic violence. This book lays bare the aims and challenges of establishing women's shelters in non-urban areas. The local histories presented here show how transition houses became hubs in a larger movement to change attitudes about domestic violence and to lobby for legislation to protect women.

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UBC Press

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0774840447

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9780774840446

No Place to Go

Local Histories of the Battered Women’s Shelter Movement

By: Nancy Janovicek

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My Nana Was A Free-Range Kid

By: Nancy Peek Youngdahl

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My Nana Was A Free-Range Kid

By: Nancy Peek Youngdahl

My Nana was an Outrageously Mischievous kid. In the 1940s and '50s, children were allowed to run free, play outside, and use their imaginations-without parents constantly hovering over them and fearing for their safety. In her own small town in North Carolina-with very little traffic, and neighbors who actually knew each other-Nana was no exception to the free-range kid phenomenon. But as an outrageously mischievous child that was left to her own devices, she sure got into some amazing and hilarious adventures. It was a glorious time to be a child! Both of Nana's parents worked, so she and her brother were often unsupervised. They wreaked havoc most of the time, thus living an exciting childhood. Nana's stories-told to her great-grandchildren-are all true. She relates how her family and neighbors survived in spite of her and is quick to let her great-grandchildren know what not to do. As she says, if she had lived as a child today, she'd probably be locked up in a juvenile home!

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Outskirts Press

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1977200966

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9781977200969

Nancy

By: Nancy Reagan

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Nancy

By: Nancy Reagan

Nancy Reagan describes her life from her happy childhood to her exciting stage and film career to her experiences as the wife of a famous actor, governor, and presidential candidate and expresses hopeful views on America's future

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Berkley

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0425051536

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9780425051535

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