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The Business of Women: Marriage, Family, and Entrepreneurship in British Columbia, 1901-1951
Despite the rich historiography of women and work in Canada, we know very little about the history of female self-employment in this country. Historians have tended to focus on women who worked for wages,...
BC Studies no. 171 Autumn 2011 | Page(s) 138-139
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Indigenous Men and Masculinities: Legacies, Identities, Regeneration
Masculinity is not an easy concept to define, never mind Indigenous masculinities, and in Indigenous Men and Masculinities, co-editors Robert Innes and Kim Anderson don’t really attempt to define it. In the closing chapter,...
BC Studies no. 193 Spring 2017 | Page(s) 222-224
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Welcome to Resisterville: American Dissidents in British Columbia
Just about every kid who grew up in British Columbia in the 1980s had a friend (or a friend of a friend) whose parents were American immigrants. Their parents usually arrived in the province sometime...
BC Studies no. 186 Summer 2015 | Page(s) 179-181
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A Sisterhood of Suffering and Service: Women and Girls of Canada and Newfoundland During the First World War
When it comes to the history of women in wartime Canada, the Second World War has so far attracted the most attention from scholars. Perhaps surprisingly, given the otherwise-abundant scholarship on Canada’s Great War, those...
BC Studies no. 177 Spring 2013 | Page(s) 183-84
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Seeking Balance: Conversations with BC Women in Politics
BC women have made important gains in electoral politics over the past century. In the national context, British Columbia has led the way, being the first province to elect a female premier, the first to...
BC Studies no. 164 Winter 2009-2010 | Page(s) 132-133
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Unsettled Pasts: Reconceiving the West through Women’s History
A primary goal of feminist scholarship and activism is to interrupt assumed notions about gender and to intervene in the naturalization of processes that perpetuate women’s op pression and subordination in patri archal societies. Contemporary...
BC Studies no. 151 Autumn 2006 | Page(s) 109-11
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The Pacific Muse: Exotic Femininity and the Colonial Pacific
In their recent edited collection, Bodies in Contact: Rethinking Colonial Encounters in World History (2005), Tony Ballantyne and Antoinette Burton call for a renewed focus on gender as a category of historical analysis, positioning “the...
BC Studies no. 151 Autumn 2006 | Page(s) 104-5
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One Step Over the Line: Toward a History of Women in the North American Wests
One Step Over the Line is the second published collection of papers drawn from a conference held at the University of Calgary in 2002 (the first, Unsettled Pasts: Reconceiving the West through Women’s History, was...
BC Studies no. 161 Spring 2009 | Page(s) 127-30
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The Punjabis in British Columbia: Location, Labour, First Nations, and Multiculturalism
Kamala Elizabeth Nayar’s groundbreaking work, The Punjabis in British Columbia, represents a significant addition to a number of fields. At a basic level, it focuses on the important but sorely understudied community of Punjabis who...
BC Studies no. 182 Summer 2014 | Page(s) 240-242
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Comrades and Critics: Women, Literature, and the Left in 1930s Canada
Canada’s best-known female literary writers from the 1930s are all closely associated with British Columbia: activist wordsmith Dorothy Livesay, then a member of the Communist Party, who first moved to Vancouver in 1936; Anne Marriott,...
BC Studies no. 165 Spring 2010 | Page(s) 117-8
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Equality Deferred: Sex Discrimination and British Columbia’s Human Rights State, 1953-84
In Canada, Dominique Clément tells us, human rights legislation has been mainly associated with discrimination against women. In British Columbia, the women’s movement was deeply invested in human rights discourse and practice, and by the...
BC Studies no. 188 Winter 2015-2016 | Page(s) 143-44
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Burlesque West: Showgirls, Sex, and Sin in Postwar Vancouver
Feather boas and glamorous stage shows, breast implants and stripper poles: these images of postwar Vancouver nightlife in Burlesque West reflect the contradictory cultural status of striptease. Although striptease was defined by various experts as...
BC Studies no. 169 Spring 2011 | Page(s) 162-164
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The Aquaculture Controversy in Canada: Activism, Policy, and Contested Science
There are few issues in British Columbia more divisive than aquaculture. With their new book, Nathan Young and Ralph Matthews provide a timely, well-documented, and clearly articulated step back from the aquaculture fray. The impetus...
BC Studies no. 169 Spring 2011 | Page(s) 148-152
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Women on Ice: The Early Years of Women’s Hockey in Western Canada
In January 1997 the Gateway, the University of Alberta’s student newspaper, reported on the first game played by the Pandas, the women’s hockey team: “it was fascinating to watch these women playing their hearts out,...
BC Studies no. 171 Autumn 2011 | Page(s) 139-142
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Contesting Clio’s Craft: New Directions and Debates in Canadian History
Viewing the historical study of Canada over the past few decades as having put class, gender, ethnic, regional, and cultural conceptions at the heart of Canadian inquiry, contributors to this volume turn to what remains...
BC Studies no. 166 Summer 2010 | Page(s) 105-7
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Indigenous Women and Feminism: Politics, Activism, Culture.
The unique circumstances of indigenous women are often overlooked in the literature on both mainstream feminism and indigenous activism. Indigenous Women and Feminism: Politics, Activism, Culture is thus a welcome addition to the existing scholarship....
BC Studies no. 174 Summer 2012 | Page(s) 146-7
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Human Welfare, Rights, and Social Activism: Rethinking the Legacy of J.S. Woodsworth
Human Welfare, Rights, and Social Activism is one of those unique edited volumes in which the whole is indeed greater than the sum of its parts. As suggested in the subtitle, the legacy of J.S. Woodsworth...
BC Studies no. 172 Winter 2011-2012 | Page(s) 141-45
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Whoever Gives us Bread: The Story of Italians in British Columbia
More than twenty years ago, Gabriele Scardellato lamented the dearth of attention to Italian Canadians living “beyond the frozen wastes” (Scardellato 1989). There have been modest advances since that time, including Patricia K. Wood’s Nationalism...
BC Studies no. 173 Spring 2012 | Page(s) 160-62
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The Manly Modern: Masculinity in Postwar Canada
Theorists of modernity have often been particularly blind to the roles of gender. In numerous otherwise thought-provoking theoretical works on modernity, gender either disappears from the analysis or is treated awkwardly. Historians, to a degree,...
BC Studies no. 166 Summer 2010 | Page(s) 117-9
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Rebel Women of the West Coast: Their Triumphs, Tragedies and Lasting Legacies
Rebel Women of the West Coast comprises stories about individual women who, through their talent, perseverance, and determination, were able to overcome patriarchal systems designed to keep them out of professional organizations. Author Rich Mole...