Basements and attics, closets and cyberspace : explorations in Canadian women's archives / Linda M. Morra and Jessica Schagerl, editors.
"Women's letters and memoirs were until recently considered to have little historical significance. Many of these materials have disappeared or remain unarchived, often dismissed as ephemera and relegated to basements, attics, closets, and, increasingly, cyberspace rather than public insti...
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Waterloo, Ont. :
Wilfrid Laurier University Press,
©2012.
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Table of Contents:
- Reorientations. Of mini-ships and archives / Daphne Marlatt ; Finding Indian maidens on eBay: tales of the alternative archive (and more tales of white commodity culture) / Cecily Devereux ; "Faster than a speeding thought": Lemon hound's archive unleashed / Karis Shearer and Jessica Schagerl ; "I remember...I was wearing leather pants": archiving the repertoire of feminist cabaret in Canada / T.L. Cowan ; "In the hope of making a connection": rereading archival bodies, responses, and love in Marian Engel's Bear and Alice Munro's "Meneseteung" / Catherine Bates ; An archive of complicity: Ethically (re)reading the documentaries of Nelofer Pazira / Hannah McGregor ; Psyche and her helpers, under cloud cover / Penn Kemp.
- Restrictions. Archival matters / Sally Clark ; Keeping the archive door open: writing about Florence Carlyle / Susan Butlin ; The oral, the archive, and ethics: Canadian women writers telling it / Andrea Beverley ; Halted by the archive: the impact of excessive archival restrictions on scholars / Ruth Panofsky and Michael Moir ; Personal Ethics: being an archivist of writers / Catherine Hobbs ; Invisibility Exhibit: the limits of library and archives Canada's "multicultural mandate" / Karina Vernon.
- Responsibilities. Rat in the box: thoughts on archiving my stuff / Susan McMaster ; Letters to the woman's page editor: reading Francis Marion Beynon's "The country homemakers" and a public culture for women / Katja Thieme ; Archival adventures with L.M. Montgomery: or, "As long as the leaves hold together" / Vanessa Brown and Benjamin Lefebvre ; The quality of the carpet: a consideration of anecdotes in researching women's lives / Linda M. Morra ; "I want my story told": The Sheila Watson archive, the reader, and the search for voice / Paul Tiessen ; "You can do with all this rambling whatever you want": Scrutinizing ethics in the Alzheimer's archives / Kathleen Venema ; Locking up letters / Julia Creet ; Afterword / Janice Fiamengo.