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By putting past and present scholarship into dialogue with each other, this book addresses accomplishments in Canadian women's and gender history, as well as ongoing silences and absences. "Although Canadian women’s history is now nearly forty years old, no volume exists that reflects explicitly upon the field’s evolution and assesses its historiographical context. This retrospective is not merely summative; the essays in this collection are analytical engagements with the current state of the field, which draw on its rich past to generate new knowledge and propose innovative avenues for inquiry. The dual purposes of this collection are to contemplate the field’s past and to contribute productively to its future. These thirteen original essays are written by scholars at all career stages. The diversity of these authors’ perspectives illustrates the contributions that Canadian scholarship has had in international dialogues about women’s and gender history and that it continues to be a vibrant area of research. The collection includes chapters about the principal sub-fields in Canadian women’s and gender history, including specialized chapters on Québecois, Indigenous, Black, and immigrant women’s histories, religious history, labour history, war and society, history of sexuality, the history of reproductive labour and reproductive justice, two essays on the history of feminism that, taken together, cover the period from 1850 to the present, and a thematic essay on the colonial period."-- Cover -- Half Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction: Feminist Conversations -- 2. Our Historiographical Moment: A Conversation about Indigenous Women's History in Canada in the Early Twenty-First Century -- 3. Writing Black Canadian Women's History:Where We Have Been and Where We Are Going -- 4. Quebec Nationalism and the History of Women and Gender -- 5. Class, Race, and Gender Roles in Early British North America -- 6. Performative (Ir)rationality: Rethinking Agency in Canadian Histories of Gender, Religion, Reason, and Beyond -- 7. Home Fronts and Front Lines:A Gendered History of War and Peace -- 8. Historical Feminisms in Canada to 1940:Further Reflections on the So-Called First Wave -- 9. Never Done: Feminists Reinterpret Their Own History -- 10. Beyond Sisters or Strangers: Feminist Immigrant Women's History and Rewriting Canadian History -- 11. Primal Urge/National Force: Sex, Sexuality, and National History -- 12. Challenging Work: Feminist Scholarshipon Women, Gender, and Work in Canadian History -- 13. Realizing Reproductive Justice in Canadian History -- List of Contributors -- Index.
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