Framing our past : Canadian women's history in the twentieth century
Record details
- ISBN: 9780773521728 (hardcover)
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Physical Description:
xxix, 495 pages : illustrations ; 24 x 27 cm
print - Publisher: Montreal & Kingston : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2001]
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references. |
Formatted Contents Note: | PART SIX. Earning their bread: Introduction / A.B. McCullough -- Sidebar: depression years -- Sidebar: Pay Equity -- Vignette: An oral history Case study -- A Barnardo Girl becomes a servant an Glanmore / Christine Zaporzan -- Bring "Domestics" to Canada: A study of immigration propaganda / Ellen Schienberg -- Women in the Newfoundland Fishery / Miriam Wright -- Vignette: Madeleine Constant, leader in the pasta industry / Lise Bre*mault -- Creative ability and business sense: The Millinery trade in Ontario / Christina Bates -- Our Mothers' patterns: sewing and dressmaking in the Japanese-Canadian community / Susan Michi Sirovyak -- Federica and Angelina: postwar Italian-Canadian couturiers in Toronto / Alexandra Palmer -- Fabrications: clothing, generations, and stitching together the history we live / Kathryn Church -- The telephone operator: from "information central" to endangered species / Caroline Martel (translated by Rosemary Covert) -- Ann Meekitjuk Hanson: Inuit broadcaster, interpreter, and community worker / Christine Lalonde -- Cultural Nationalism and maternal feminism: Madge Macbeth as writer, broadcaster, and literary figure / Peggy Kelly -- "The day of the strong-minded frump has passed": women journalists and news of feminism / Barbara M. Freeman -- Sidebar: Jean McKishnie Blewett -- Women in banking: a case study of Scotiabank / Jane Mokes and Lisa Singer -- Vignette: The Keroacks, a family of business women / Lise Bre*mault -- "The Queen of the Hurricanes": Elsie Gregory MacGill, Aeronautical engineer and women's advocate / Pamela Wakewich -- The Women's Royal Canadian Naval Service during the Second World War: an exploration of their archival legacy / Donna Porter -- Vignette: "Not Just 'Rosie the Riveter ... '" -- Women's wartime work and identities: women workers at Canadian Car and Foundry Co. Limited, Fort William, Ontario, 1938-1945 / Pamela Wakewich, Helen Smith, and Jeanette Lynes -- Foreign Aid worker and humanitarian Lotta Hitschmanova and the Unitarian Service Committee of Canada / Grace Hyam. |
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Subject: | Women -- Canada -- History -- 20th century |
Genre: | Essays. |
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Prince Rupert Library | 305.40971 FRAM (Text) | 33294001267798 | Adult Non-Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |