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Foreword -- Introduction -- Montagnais women and the Jesuit program for colonization -- New France: les femmes favorisees -- Frances Brooke's Emily Montague (1769): Canada and woman's rights -- Patriarchy and paternalism: the case of the Eastern Ontario Loyalist women -- The role of native women in the fur trade society of western Canada, 1670-1830 -- Disfranchised but not quiescent: women petitioners in New Brunswick in the mid-nineteenth century -- 'Sundays always make me thing of home': time and place in Canadian women's history -- Surviving as a widow in nineteenth-century Montreal -- The decline of women in Canadian dairying -- In their own right: convents, an organized expression of women's aspirations -- Working-class femininity and the Salvation Army: Hallelujah Lasses in English Canada, 1882-1892 -- The Ontario Medical College for Women, 1883 to 1906: lessons from gender-separation in medical education -- Separate and unequal: Indian and white girls at All Hallows School, 1884-1920 -- Goose grease and turpentine: mother treats the family's illnesses -- The 1907 Bell telephone strike: organizing women workers -- Women, work and the office: the feminization of clerical occupations in Canada, 1901-1931 -- 'Helping the poorer sisters': the women of the Jost MIssion, Halifax, 1905-1945 -- 'Ever a crusader': Nellie McClung, first-wave feminist -- Deviants anonymous: single mothers at the Hopital de la Misericorde in Montreal, 1929-1939 -- The skilled emigrant and her kin: gender, culture, and labour recruitment -- Schools for happiness: Instituts familiaux and the education for ideal wives and mothers -- From Contadina to workers: southern Italian immigrant working women in Toronto, 1947-1962 -- Mothers and daughters: linking women's life histories in Grand Bank, Newfoundland, Canada -- Independence versus partisanship: dilemmas in the political history of women in English Canada -- Further reading -- Contributors. |
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