In S. Slater and F. Yarbrough, Gender and Sexuality in Indigenous North America 1400-1850 (University of South Carolina Press, 2011), 54-74. BOOK DESCRIPTION: Prior to the arrival of Europeans in the New World, Native Americans across the continent had developed richly complex attitudes and forms of expression concerning gender and sexual roles. The role of the “berdache,”… Read More »
Full Text (Beginning at Page 121). Canadian Historical Review 91:1 (March 2010), 121-123.
In Mona Gleason and Adele Perry, eds., Rethinking Canada (Toronto: Oxford University Press, 2010), 32-34. BOOK 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… Read More »
ABSTRACT: Historians have tended to portray women who were involved in commerce in New France as a handful of large-scale, self-motivated entrepreneurs. The literature presents these exceptional individuals as flanked by a somewhat larger group that was less independent, consisting of wives deputized by their husbands or merchants’ widows stepping into the dead man’s shoes.… Read More »
Full Text (Beginning at Page 269). University of Toronto Quarterly 78:1 “Letters in Canada” Winter 2009, 269-70.
ABSTRACT: This is an interview with Pat Armstrong, author of The Double Ghetto. The focus of this conversation is Armstrong’s fight for universal Medicare. She claims that women will be impacted more negatively if healthcare in Canada becomes privatized. Noel discusses this issue with Armstrong, which results in the important insight that it is mostly… Read More »
Full Text (Beginning at Page 413). University of Toronto Quarterly 76:1 “Letters in Canada” Winter 2007, 413-414.
Full Text (Beginning at Page 312). University of Toronto Quarterly 75:1 “Letters in Canada” Winter 2006, 312-12.
Full Text (Beginning at Page 130). Canadian Historical Review (March 2006) 148-49.
RÉSUMÉ: Les femmes jouaient un rôle important dans le commerce des ressources naturelles en Nouvelle-France. Cet article fournit des exemples de la participation des femmes de l’élite dans le commerce des fourrures, puis montre que les femmes du peuple s’impliquaient aussi dans cette économie de diverses façons. L’auteur conclue à la nécessité d’examiner de nouveau… Read More »