Introduction: Productive Pasts and New Directions / Catherine Carstairs and Nancy Janovicek

1 James Douglas, Amelia Connolly, and the Writing of Gender and Women’s History / Adele Perry

2 Using Diaries to Explore the Shared Worlds of Family and Community in Nineteenth-Century New Brunswick / Gail G. Campbell

3 “A Little Offensive and Defensive Alliance”: Friendship, Professional Networks, and International Child Welfare Policy / Karen Balcom

4 "The Necessity of Going": Julia Grace Wales’s Transnational Life as a Peace Activist and a Scholar / Lorna R. McLean

5 Feminist Ideals and Everyday Life: Professional Women’s Feminism at Victoria College, University of Toronto, 1900-40 / Catherine Gidney

6 Singleness and Choice: The Impact of Age, Time, and Class on Three Female Youth Diarists in 1930s Canada / Heidi MacDonald

7 Sexual Spectacles: Saleswomen in Canadian Department Store Magazines between 1920 and 1950 / Donica Belisle

8 Gender and the Career Paths of Professors in the École de service social at Laval University, 1943-72 / Hélène Charron

9 Teaching June Cleaver, Being Hazel Chong: An Oral History of Gender, Race, and National "Character" / Kristina R. Llewellyn

10 The Ontario Women’s History Network: Linking Teachers, Scholars, and History Communities / Rose Fine-Meyer

11 Fighting the “Corset of Victorian Prejudice”: Women’s Activism in Canadian Engineering during the Pioneering
Decades (1970s-80s) / Ruby Heap

12 Ad Hoc Activism: Feminist Citizens Respond to the Meech Lake Accord in New Brunswick / Anthony S.C. Hampton

13 To Help and to Serve: Women’s Career Paths in the Domestic Services Sector in Quebec City, 1960-2009 / Catherine Charron

Contributors; Index