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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
ABSTRACT: Probes into the history of millennial movements in Canada. Information on the portents of 1663; Emergence of the teetotal prophets; Details on the prairie apocalypse in 1885. Full Text Beaver, Dec 1999/Jan 2000, Vol.79(6), pp.18-22
In Women and Freedom in Early America, Larry Eldridge, ed. (New York University Press, 1997) 26-43. BOOK DESCRIPTION: It is virtually impossible to generalize about the degree to which women in early America were free. What, if anything, did enslaved black women in the South have in common with powerful female leaders in Iroquois society?… Read More »