Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Reflections on Thirty Years of Women’s History
Discovering Women’s History
The 1907 Bell Telephone Strike
Organizing Women Workers
Looking Backwards
Re-assessing Women on the Canadian Left
The Communist Party and the Woman Question, 1922–1929
Manufacturing Consent in Peterborough
The Softball Solution
Female Workers, Male Managers, and the Operation of Paternalism at Westclox, 1923–1960
Pardon Tales’ from Magistrate’s Court
Women, Crime, and the Court in Peterborough County, 1920–1950
Telling Our Stories
Feminist Debates and the Use of Oral History
Foucault, Feminism, and Postcolonialism
Girls in Conflict with the Law
Exploring the Construction of Female ‘Delinquency’ in Ontario, 1940–1960
Criminalizing the Colonized
Ontario Native Women Confront the Criminal Justice System, 1920–1960
Constructing the ‘Eskimo’ Wife
White Women’s Travel Writing, Colonialism, and the Canadian North, 1940–1960
Embodied Experience
Words of Experience/Experiencing Words
Reading Working Women’s Letters to Canada’s Royal Commiss
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