In Until Our Hearts Are on the Ground: Aboriginal Mothering, Oppression, Resistance and Rebirth, ed. DM Lavell-Harvard and Jeannette Corbiere Lavell (Toronto: Demeter, 2006), 76-93. BOOK DESCRIPTION: In this revolutionary volume, as part of their overall effort to advocate for the rights of Aboriginal women, D. Memee Lavell-Harvard and Jeannette Corbiere Lavell have brought together… Read More »
Full Text Ontario History 97:2 (Autumn 2005): 230-31.
Full Text (Beginning at Page 111). University of Toronto Quarterly 73:1 “Letters in Canada” Windsor 2004, 111-112.
In Foundations: Reading in Pre-Confederation Canadian History, ed. Margaret Conrad and Alvin Einkel (Toronto: Pearson, 2004), 465-479. BOOK DESCRIPTION: Foundations: Readings in Pre-Confederation Canadian Historyis a sample reader of pre-confederation Canadian history, with a careful balance of regional representation. The sections of the text are grouped in overlapping time periods that have become more-or-less conventional for… Read More »
In Fashion: A Canadian Perspective, ed. Alexander Palmer (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2004) 68-89. BOOK DESCPRIPTION: How does a country dress itself? From Montreal’s ‘Retail Mile,’ to Ontario’s millinery trade, to how war and television can effect the garment industry or whether tailoring can make a cultural impact, Alexandra Palmer gathers together some of… Read More »
Full Text Revue d’histoire de l’Amérique française, 2002, Vol.56(2), pp.246-248
Full Text (Beginning at Page 211). University of Toronto Quarterly 71:1 “Letters in Canada” Winter 2002, 211-212.
ABSTRACT: This article uses new models of early modern statecraft and clientage to analyze the influence of convents in New France. It also explores the impact of the noble status many nuns possessed. The story of Mother St Claude de la Croix shows the continuities between her childhood in the Château de Ramezay and her… Read More »
ABSTRACT: Women’s studies educators regard “new men’s studies” with understandable ambivalence. Still, they can be valuable. A number of practitioners in this new field express feminist perspectives. Men’s studies can contribute a clearer view of women’s situation as well as men’s. Feminist goals are sometimes advanced by examining and mobilizing both sexes. Full Text Atlantis: A… Read More »
ABSTRACT: This article addresses the authority and administrative skills of the nuns of the Hôpital-Général de Québec, concerning itself with the period during and after the British Conquest. Their powers relate to: (1) institutional organisation and traditions; (2) the fact that laywomen of that period participated in economic enterprises; and (3) convent connections with families… Read More »