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