Rethinking Canada
The Promise of Women's History
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Initial publish date
- Sep 2010
- Category
- General
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780199011087
- Publish Date
- Feb 2016
- List Price
- $129.99
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780195431728
- Publish Date
- Sep 2010
- List Price
- $99.95
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Description
Rethinking Canada is a collection of essays on the diverse lives, struggles, and contributions of women in Canadian history. Now in its sixth edition, this trusted text includes articles spanning from the 1600s to the present day. Eighteen new essays offer increased coverage of indigenous, immigrant, and racialized experiences; work and labour; sexuality and the body; religion and spirituality; politics; and shifts in regional analysis. Recent scholarship and fresh editorial commentaries combine to create an invaluable introduction not only to Canadian women's history, but also to the study of Canadian history as a whole.
About the authors
Mona Gleason, PhD, is an associate professor and the co-ordinator of the Society, Culture, and Politics in Education Program in the Department of Educational Studies at the University of British Columbia. Her research brings an historical perspective to the study of education, children, and youth in the 19th and 20th centuries.
Tamara Myers is an assistant professor in the Department of History at the University of British Columbia.
Adele Perry is Professor of History at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg. She was born and raised in a non-Indigenous family in British Columbia, did hard time in Toronto, and has lived in Winnipeg since 2000. She writes about the nineteenth century, gender, Canada, and colonialism, and is the author of On the Edge of Empire: Gender, Race, and the Making of British Columbia, 1849-1871 (University of Toronto Press, 2001), Colonial Relations: The Douglas-Connolly Family and the Nineteenth-Century Imperial World (Cambridge, 2015), and the co-editor of four editions of Rethinking Canada: The Promise of Women's History. With Esyllt Jones, she coordinated 2011's People's Citizenship Guide to Canada, published by ARP Books. You can find her on twitter at @AdelePerry.
Editorial Reviews
" . . . One student reported that [this] was the best textbook she'd ever read. The writing style and readability of this edition is as clear as the fifth edition . . . the book is balanced, and the selection of articles is strong." --Nancy Janovicek, University of Calgary
"A good selection of articles blends subjective and objective elements of women's historical experiences, and combines innovative primary and secondary sources for a balanced coverage of time periods, regions, and fields. It integrates established scholarship in women's history, gay history, and the history of sexuality, with current advances in issues of race, Quebec sovereignty, transnational questions, and Aboriginal history." --Kathleen Lord, Mount Allison University
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