Framing our past [electronic resource] : Canadian women's history in the twentieth century / edited by Sharon Anne Cook, Lorna R. McLean, and Kate O'Rourke.
"Framing Our Past emphasizes the lived experiences of women: their participation in many areas of social life, such as social rituals with other women; organized sporting clubs; philanthropic, spiritual, and aesthetic activities; study and reading groups. The authors then focus on women's...
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Table of Contents:
- Living women's lives: Introduction / Veronica Strong-Boag
- Sidebar: Fanny Bobbie Rosenfeld
- Sidebar: Lacy Maud Montgomery
- "Club": laudering clothing in Newfoundland / Kathleen Wilker
- Vignette: Stirring the pot
- Winnipeg Women getting together: study groups and reading clubs, 1900-1940 / Jody Baltessen and Shelagh J. Squire
- Vignette: life in the town of Nelson, British Columbia / Brenda Hornby
- "Doing all the rest": Church women of the Ladies' Aid Society / Marilyn Fa*rdig Whitely
- Preserving habits: memory within Communities of English Canadian Women religious / Elizabeth Smyth
- Mildred Armstrong and Missionary Culture / Marjorie Levan
- Vignette: women's spiritual lives
- E Pauline Johnson: Mohawk-English writer and performer / Veronica Strong-Boag
- Sidebar: Emma Albani
- Vignette: two perspectives on urban living
- Mairuth Sarsfield / Mairuth Hodge Sarsfield
- Sidebar: Margaret Marshall Saunders.
- Gabrielle Roy
- Pierrette Boily
- Ada Gladys Killins: sacrificing for Art's sake / Sharon Anne Cook
- Vignette: The Road less taken
- The single woman as artist
- The unmarried woman artist: Emily Carr / Sonia Halpern
- Isabel and Helen Stadelbauer: Art teachers in Calgary / Helen Diemert
- A sense of place in Alberta: The art and life of Annora Brown / Kirstin Evenden
- Vignette: Yukon women pioneers
- Edith Josie: "These are the news" / Charlene Porsild
- Martha Louise Black
- Alice Peck, May Phillips, and the Canadian Handicrafts Guild / Ellen Easton McLeod
- Vignette: life in a native community
- Helen Kalvak: pioneering Inuit print-maker / Jessica Tomic-Bagshaw
- Virginia J. Watt: Champion of Inuit arts and crafts / Ellen Easton McLeod
- A century of Artistic experience and innovation / Anne Newlands.
- Family and the home : Introduction / Cynthia R. Comacchia
- Zoe ́Laurier, Prime Minister's wife: family ideals at the turn of the century / Catherine Vye
- "A hardier stock of womankind": Alice Barrett Parke in British Columbia / Jo Fraser Jones
- Life on the Frontier: remembering the coal mining camp at Cadomin, 1929-1934 / Edith Wheeler
- Women and domestic technology: household drudgery, "Democratized consumption," and patriarchy / Dianne Dodd
- Defining the lives of rural women: Laura Rose on "The womanly sphere of woman" / Margaret Kechnie
- "Such outrageous discrimination": farm women and their family grievances in early twentieth-century Ontario / Monda Halpern
- Between the rock and a hard place: single mothers in St. John's, Newfoundland, during the Second World War / Ruth Haywood
- Prudence Heward: painting at home / Pepita Ferrari.
- Mothering the Dionne Quintuplets: women's stories / Katherine Arnup
- Saving mothers and babies: motherhood, medicine, and the modern state, 1900-1945 / Cynthia R. Comacchio
- Teaching and learning: introduction / Nicole Neatby
- Shaping Canada's women: Canadian Girls in training versus Girl Guides / Patricia Dirks
- The experience of women students at four universities, 1895-1930 / Alyson E. King
- Sidebar: Grace Annie Lockhart
- Margaret Addison: Dean of Residence and Dean of Women at Victoria University, 1903-1931 / Jean O'Grady
- The "Feminization" of high schools: the problem of women secondary school teachers in Ontario / Susan Gelman
- Writing for whom? Isabel Murphy Skelton and Canadian history in the early twentieth century / Terry Crowley
- The Rideau Street Convent School: French-language private schooling in Ontario / Isabelle Bourgeois.
- "The School on Fard's Cross": Shamrock School Remembered / Pat Trites
- Vignette: Women, Team Sport and Physical Education
- Women and Physical Education / Ellen O'Reilly
- Women and Team Sport / Veronica Strong-Boag
- Montreal Sportswomen and the Penguin Ski Club / Andrea Winlo
- From elegance and expression to sweat and strength: Physical education at the Margaret Eaton School / Anna H. Lathrop
- Women's activism and the State : Introduction / Joan Sangster
- Sidebar: Adelaide Hunter Hoodless
- Sidebar: Imperial Order Daughters of the Empire
- History and human agency: The case of Agnes Macphail, Canada's First woman Member of Parliament / Terry Crowley
- The 'Persons' Case, 1929: A Legal definition of women as persons / Anne White
- Women, the Settlement movement, and State Formation in the Early twentieth century / Cathy James
- The historical record and adolescent girls in Montreal's Red-Light District / Tamara Myers.
- Charlotte Whitton: pioneering social worker and public policy activist / Judith Roberts-Moore
- Consuming issues: women on the left, political protest, and the organization of homemakers, 1920-1960 / Joan Sangster
- Making ourselves heard: "Voice of women" and the Peace Movement in the early sixties / Candace Loewen
- The Royal Commission on the Status of Women in Canada, 1967-1970: Liberal Feminism and its Radical Implications / Kimberly Speers
- Sidebar: Lady Ishbel Aberdeen
- Florence Bird / Judi Cumming
- Women, Peace activism, and the environment: Rosalie Bertell and the development of a Feminist Agenda, 1970s-1990s / Judi Cumming
- State control of Women's immigration: the passage to Canada of South Asian women / Helen Ralston
- Making space: women building culture / Janice Hladki and Ann Holmes
- Feminist theatre in Toronto: a look at the Nightwood Theatre / Corinne Rusch-Drutz.
- Health care and science : Introduction / Wendy Mitchinson
- The Ladies Committee of the Home for Incurable Children / Magda Zakanyi
- Margaret Scott: "The Angel of poverty row" / Tamara Miller
- "Hardly Feminine Work!" Vilet Wilson and the Canadian Voluntary Aid Detachment Nurses of the First World War / Linda J. Quiney
- Side bar: Major Margaret C. Macdonald
- The emergence of physiotherapy as a new profession for Canadian women, 1914-1918 / Ruby Heap
- Ethel Currant: portrait of a Grenfell Nurse / Jill Perry
- Vera Peters: medical Innovator / J. Catton and P. Catton
- Norah Toole: Scientist and social activist / Marianne Gosztonyi Ainley
- Alice V. Payne, Mining Geologist: a lifetime of "small and difficult things" / E. Tina Crossfield
- Vignette: A case study of an oral history project
- Shirley Peruniak: Naturalist, Historian, Quetico Provincial Park Interpreter / Wilma MacDonald.
- Earning their bread : introduction / A.B. McCullough
- Sidebar: depression years
- Sidebar: Pay Equity
- Vignette: An oral history Case study
- A Barnardo Girl becomes a servant an Glanmore / Christine Zaporzan
- Bring "Domestics" to Canada: A study of immigration propaganda / Ellen Schienberg
- Women in the Newfoundland Fishery / Miriam Wright
- Vignette: Madeleine Constant, leader in the pasta industry / Lise Bre*mault
- Creative ability and business sense: The Millinery trade in Ontario / Christina Bates
- Our Mothers' patterns: sewing and dressmaking in the Japanese-Canadian community / Susan Michi Sirovyak
- Federica and Angelina: postwar Italian-Canadian couturiers in Toronto / Alexandra Palmer
- Fabrications: clothing, generations, and stitching together the history we live / Kathryn Church
- The telephone operator: from"information central" to endangered species / Caroline Martel (translated by Rosemary Cover)
- Ann Meekitjuk Hanson: Inuit broadcaster, interpreter, and community worker / Christine Lalonde
- Cultural Nationalism and maternal feminism: Madge Macbeth as writer, broadcaster, and literary figure / Peggy Kelly
- "The day of the strong-minded frump has passed": women journalists and news of feminism / Barbara M. Freeman
- Sidebar: Jean McKishnie Blewett
- Women in banking: a case study of Scotiabank / Jane Mokes and Lisa Singer
- Vignette: The Keroacks, a family of business women / Lise Bre*mault
- "The Queen of the Hurricanes": Elsie Gregory MacGill, Aeronautical engineer and women's advocate / Pamela Wakewich
- The Women's Royal Canadian Naval Service during the Second World War: an exploration of their archival legacy / Donna Porter
- Vignette: "Not Just 'Rosie the Riveter ... '"
- Women's wartime work and identities: women workers at Canadian Car and Foundry Co. Limited, Fort William, Ontario, 1938-1945.
- Pamela Wakewich, Helen Smith, and Jeanette Lynes
- Foreign Aid worker and humanitarian Lotta Hitschmanova and the Unitarian Service Committee of Canada / Grace Hyam.