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Through Feminist Eyes gathers in one volume the most incisiveand insightful essays written to date by the distinguished Canadianhistorian Joan Sangster. To the original essays, Sangster has addedextensive introductory discussions that situate her earlier work in thecontext of developing theory and debate. Sangster has also supplied anintroduction to the collection in which she reflects on the themes andtheoretical orientations that have shaped the writing of women'shistory over the past thirty years. Approaching her subject matter froman array of interpretive frameworks that engage questions of gender,class, colonialism, politics, and labour, Sangster explores the livedexperience of women in a variety of specific historical settings. In sodoing, she sheds new light on issues that have sparked much debateamong feminist historians and offers a thoughtful overview of theevolution of women's history in Canada.
Joan Sangster is professor of women's studies andhistory at Trent University, where she also teaches at the Frost Centrefor Canadian Studies and Indigenous Studies. Her many publicationsinclude Transforming Labour: Women and Work in Postwar Canadaand Girl Trouble: Female Delinquency in English Canada.
Acknowledgements IntroductionReflections on Thirty Years of Women's History Discovering Women's History The 1907 Bell Telephone StrikeOrganizing Women Workers Looking BackwardsRe-assessing Women on the Canadian Left The Communist Party and the Woman Question, 1922 – 1929 Manufacturing Consent in Peterborough The Softball SolutionFemale Workers, Male Managers, and the Operation of Paternalism atWestclox, 1923 – 1960 Pardon Tales' from Magistrate'sCourtWomen, Crime, and the Court in Peterborough County,1920 – 1950 Telling Our StoriesFeminist Debates and the Use of Oral History Foucault, Feminism, and Postcolonialism Girls in Conflict with the LawExploring the Construction of Female 'Delinquency' inOntario, 1940 – 1960 Criminalizing the ColonizedOntario Native Women Confront the Criminal Justice System,1920 – 1960 Constructing the 'Eskimo' WifeWhite Women's Travel Writing, Colonialism, and the CanadianNorth, 1940 – 1960 Embodied Experience Words of Experience/Experiencing WordsReading Working Women's Letters to Canada's RoyalCommission on the Status of Women Making a Fur CoatWomen, the Labouring Body, and Working-class History Publications by Joan SangsterPublication Credits