Creating historical memory: English-Canadian women and the work of history

✍ Scribed by Beverly Boutilier, Alison L. Prentice

Publisher: University of British Columbia Press
Year: 1997
Tongue: English
Leaves: 320
Category: Library

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✦ Table of Contents

Frontmatter
Illustrations (page ix)
Acknowledgments (page xi)
1 Introduction: Locating Women in the Work of History (Beverly Boutilier and Alison Prentice, page 3)
Part 1: Community Building
2 Cultivating a Love of Canada through History: Agnes Maule Machar, 1837-1927 (Dianne M. Hallman, page 25)
3 Women's Rights and Duties: Sarah Anne Curzon and the Politics of Canadian History (Beverly Boutilier, page 51)
4 Ontario Women's Institutes and the Work of Local History (Linda M. Ambrose, page 75)
Part 2: Transitions
5 'Writing Teaches Us Our Mysteries': Women Religious Recording and Writing History (Elizabeth Smyth, page 101)
6 'I walk my own track in life & no mere male can bump me off it': Constance Lindsay Skinner and the Work of History (Jean Barman, page 129)
7 Isabel Skelton: Precursor to Canadian Cultural History (Terry Crowley, page 164)
Part 3: The Academy
8 Laying Siege to the History Professoriate (Alison Prentice, page 197)
9 A View from the Front Steps: Esther Clark Wright and the Making of a Maritime Historian (Barry M. Moody, page 233)
10 Kathleen Wood-Legh: A Canadian in Cambridge (Megan J. Davies and Colin M. Coates, page 254)
Part 4: New Departures
11 Women's History: Founding a New Field (Deborah Gorham, page 273)
Contributors (page 298)
Index (page 300)

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