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Florence Nightingale on Society and Politics, Philosophy, Science, Education and Literature

Florence Nightingale on Society and Politics, Philosophy, Science, Education and Literature

Collected Works of Florence Nightingale, Volume 5
edited by Lynn McDonald
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Florence Nightingale on Society and Politics, Philosophy, Science, Education and Literature, Volume 5 in the Collected Works of Florence Nightingale, is the main source of Nightingale’s work on the methodology of social science and her views on social reform. Here we see how she took her “call to service” into practice: by first learning how …

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Wild Mother Dancing

Wild Mother Dancing

Maternal Narrative in Canadian Literature
by Di Brandt
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Wild Mother Dancing challenges the historical absence of the mother, who, as subject and character, has been repeatedly suppressed and edited out of the literary canon. In her search for sources for telling the new (or old, forbidden story) against a tradition of narrative absence, Brandt turns to Canadian fiction representing a variety of cultural …

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Seven Eggs Today

Seven Eggs Today

The Diaries of Mary Armstrong, 1859 and 1869
by Jackson Webster Armstrong
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tagged : pre-confederation (to 1867), women, personal memoirs

Offers an intriguing glimpse into the daily life of an average Toronto woman in the mid-nineteenth century.

Mary Armstrong’s diaries are a window into the daily life of a middle-class woman in a new and changing land, and a revealing account of life in early Toronto just before and after confederation. Her journals are one of very few published b …

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Working Memory

Working Memory

Women and Work in World War II
edited by Marlene Kadar & Jeanne Perreault
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Working Memory: Women and Work in World War II speaks to the work women did during the war: the labour of survival, resistance, and collaboration, and the labour of recording, representing, and memorializing these wartime experiences. The contributors follow their subjects’ tracks and deepen our understanding of the experiences from the imprints …

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The Gendered Screen

The Gendered Screen

Canadian Women Filmmakers
edited by Brenda Austin-Smith & George Melnyk
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This book is the first major study of Canadian women filmmakers since the groundbreaking Gendering the Nation (1999). The Gendered Screen updates the subject with discussions of important filmmakers such as Deepa Mehta, Anne Wheeler, Mina Shum, Lynne Stopkewich, Léa Pool, and Patricia Rozema, whose careers have produced major bodies of work. It al …

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Beyond Bylines

Beyond Bylines

Media Workers and Women’s Rights in Canada
by Barbara M. Freeman
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Beyond Bylines: Media Workers and Women’s Rights in Canada explores the ways in which several of Canada’s women journalists, broadcasters, and other media workers reached well beyond the glory of their personal bylines to advocate for the most controversial women’s rights of their eras. To do so, some of them adopted conventional feminine ide …

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Eyehill

Eyehill

by Kelly Cooper
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A remarkable debut collection, Kelly Cooper's Eyehill provides a multi-hued portrait of a small prairie town. Too small to support a high school or a drugstore, Eyehill is populated by men and women, who have worked for generations to wrest a living from the dry, rolling hills. Like people anywhere else, they hunger for love, understanding, a decen …

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Recollections of Waterloo Lutheran University 1960-1973

Recollections of Waterloo Lutheran University 1960-1973

by Flora Roy
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To the very few women who were teaching in Ontario’s universities at the time of the great expansion in the 1960s, Flora Roy is a legendary figure. To many others, academic colleagues and former students, she has continued to be just that through all the years since....Flora Roy is unique among Canadian academics. She shepherded her department …

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The Biblical Politics of John Locke

The Biblical Politics of John Locke

by Kim Ian Parker
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John Locke is often thought of as one of the founders of the Enlightenment, a movement that sought to do away with the Bible and religion and replace them with scientific realism. But Locke was extremely interested in the Bible, and he was engaged by biblical theology and religion throughout his life. In this new book, K.I. Parker considers Locke …

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Forever Champions

Forever Champions

The Enduring Legacy of the Record-setting Edmonton Grads
by Brignall, Richard
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tagged : basketball, girls & women, post-confederation (1867-)

Between 1915 to 1940, the Edmonton Commercial Graduates Basketball Club ("the Grads") went from a small-city, girl's high school team to world champs with an unparalleled winning record. Sports journalist Richard Brignall tells the story of this talented upstart team, whose sportsmanship and unwavering determination inspired generations of female a …

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The Life Writings of Mary Baker McQuesten

The Life Writings of Mary Baker McQuesten

Victorian Matriarch
edited by Mary J. Anderson
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How did a privileged Victorian matron, newly widowed and newly impoverished, manage to raise and educate her six young children and restore her family to social prominence?

Mary Baker McQuesten’s personal letters, 155 of which were carefully selected by Mary J. Anderson, tell the story. In her uninhibited style, in letters mostly to her children, …

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Cold War Comforts

Cold War Comforts

Canadian Women, Child Safety, and Global Insecurity
by Tarah Brookfield
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Cold War Comforts examines Canadian women’s efforts to protect children’s health and safety between the dropping of the first atomic bomb in Hiroshima in 1945 and the end of the Vietnam War in 1975. Amid this global insecurity, many women participated in civil defence or joined the disarmament movement as means to protect their families from th …

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Florence Nightingale’s Suggestions for Thought

Florence Nightingale’s Suggestions for Thought

Collected Works of Florence Nightingale, Volume 11
edited by Lynn McDonald
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Florence Nightingale’s Suggestions for Thought has intrigued readers from feminist-philosopher J.S. Mill (who used it in his The Subjection of Women) to the latest generation of women’s activists. Although selections from this long work have been published, Lynn McDonald is the first editor to work through the numerous surviving drafts of Night …

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Textual Mothers/Maternal Texts

Textual Mothers/Maternal Texts

Motherhood in Contemporary Women’s Literatures
edited by Elizabeth Podnieks & Andrea O’Reilly
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Textual Mothers/Maternal Texts focuses on mothers as subjects and as writers who produce auto/biography, fiction, and poetry about maternity. International contributors examine the mother without child, with child, and in her multiple identities as grandmother, mother, and daughter.

The collection examines how authors use textual spaces to accept, …

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Till the Boys Come Home

Till the Boys Come Home

Life on the Home Front in Queens County, NB, 1914-1918
by Curtis Mainville
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A century after the beginning of the Great War, the contributions of the Maritimes to the formation of the Canadian Expeditionary force remain relatively unexplored. Till the Boys Come Home examines the conduct of the war through the eyes of one particular agricultural and coal-mining community.

As the clouds of war gathered across the Atlantic, the …

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The Wartime Letters of Leslie and Cecil Frost, 1915-1919

The Wartime Letters of Leslie and Cecil Frost, 1915-1919

edited by R. B. Fleming
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The Wartime Letters of Leslie and Cecil Frost, 1915–1919 brings to light the correspondence between two officer brothers and their family at home from 1915 to 1919. Despite wartime censorship, Leslie and Cecil wrote frank and forthright letters that show how the young men viewed the war, as well as what they observed both during training and from …

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Engendering Transnational Voices

Engendering Transnational Voices

Studies in Family, Work, and Identity
edited by Guida Man & Rina Cohen
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Engendering Transnational Voices examines the transnational practices and identities of immigrant women, youth, and children in an era of global migration and neoliberalism, addressing such topics as family relations, gender and work, schooling, remittances, cultural identities, caring for children and the elderly, inter- and multi-generational rel …

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Babies for the Nation

Babies for the Nation

The Medicalization of Motherhood in Quebec, 1910-1970
by Denyse Baillargeon, translated by W. Donald Wilson
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Described by some as a “necropolis for babies,” the province of Quebec in the early twentieth century recorded infant mortality rates, particularly among French-speaking Catholics, that were among the highest in the Western world. This “bleeding of the nation” gave birth to a vast movement for child welfare that paved the way for a medicali …

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Bearing Witness

Bearing Witness

Living with Ovarian Cancer
edited by Kathryn Carter & Laurie Elit
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tagged : cancer, death, grief, bereavement, women's health

Bearing Witness is a collection of stories from women who went through the diagnosis of ovarian cancer, and treatment for it, only to find that the cancer recurred and any hope of recovery was gone. These women represent a spectrum of ages, ethnic backgrounds, marital circumstances, and professional experiences. From their stories we learn how each …

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Florence Nightingale’s European Travels

Florence Nightingale’s European Travels

Collected Works of Florence Nightingale, Volume 7
edited by Lynn McDonald
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This seventh volume in the Collected Works of Florence Nightingale consists of letters, observations, and notes from Florence Nightingale’s many trips to Europe, beginning with a family journey when she was a teenager. It includes annotations she made on opera libretti from her “music mad” phase and her winter in Rome (1847-48) which were so …

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Killing Women

Killing Women

The Visual Culture of Gender and Violence
edited by Annette Burfoot & Susan Lord
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tagged : women's studies, popular culture, violence in society

The essays in Killing Women: The Visual Culture of Gender and Violence find important connections in the ways that women are portrayed in relation to violence, whether they are murder victims or killers. The book’s extensive cultural contexts acknowledge and engage with contemporary theories and practices of identity politics and debates about th …

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