Through Feminist Eyes
Through Feminist Eyes
Essays on Canadian Women’s History
This is a passionate book by an author who has something to say and for whom history matters.
Joan Sangster’s work has always been ground-breaking, continually providing new perspectives on issues of women, gender, class, and race in diverse settings ... Through Feminist Eyes makes an important theoretical contribution to the field by gathering together some of Sangster’s key essays for the first time and offering her thoughtful commentary on her own intellectual trajectory.
Sangster raises questions about assumptions and norms that have shaped feminist historiography, making this a provocative and eloquent testimony about the importance of scrutinizing evidence and perspectives.
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Reflections on Thirty Years of Women’s History
Discovering Women’s History
The 1907 Bell Telephone Strike
Organizing Women Workers
Looking Backwards
Re-assessing Women on the Canadian Left
The Communist Party and the Woman Question, 1922–1929
Manufacturing Consent in Peterborough
The Softball Solution
Female Workers, Male Managers, and the Operation of Paternalism atWestclox, 1923–1960
Pardon Tales’ from Magistrate’sCourt
Women, Crime, and the Court in Peterborough County,1920–1950
Telling Our Stories
Feminist Debates and the Use of Oral History
Foucault, Feminism, and Postcolonialism
Girls in Conflict with the Law
Exploring the Construction of Female ‘Delinquency’ inOntario, 1940–1960
Criminalizing the Colonized
Ontario Native Women Confront the Criminal Justice System,1920–1960
Constructing the ‘Eskimo’ Wife
White Women’s Travel Writing, Colonialism, and the CanadianNorth, 1940–1960
Embodied Experience
Words of Experience/Experiencing Words
Reading Working Women’s Letters to Canada’s RoyalCommission on the Status of Women
Making a Fur Coat
Women, the Labouring Body, and Working-class History
Publications by Joan Sangster
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