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  • Regulating Girls and Women

    Sexuality, Family, and the Law in Ontario, 1920-1960

    by Joan Sangster ...
    Series series Canadian Social History Series
    For people living in Ontario, as throughout Canada, the period from 1920 to 1960 was one of great change and turmoil – the roaring twenties the Great Depression, the upheaval of war, and the economic boom of the postwar years. One constant in society over those years, however, was the differential treatment that females and males received before the law, especially in regard to family matters and ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • Demanding Equality

    One Hundred Years of Canadian Feminism

    by Joan Sangster ...
    For one hundred years women fashioned different dreams of social transformation in their search for equality, autonomy, and dignity; yet what is Canadian feminism?Demanding Equality offers illustrations of feminist thought and organizing from mid-nineteenth-century, Enlightenment-inspired writing to the multi-issue movement of the 1980s. Broadening our definition of feminism – and recognizing that ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • One Hundred Years of Struggle

    The History of Women and the Vote in Canada

    by Joan Sangster ...
    Series series Women’s Suffrage and the Struggle for Democracy
    On the eve of celebrating the 100th anniversary of women’s right to vote in Canada comes a book, the first in a series on women’s suffrage and the struggle for democracy, by acclaimed historian Joan Sangster.The achievement of the vote in 1918 is often presented as a triumphant moment in the onward, upward advancement of Canadian women. In this beautifully illustrated book, acclaimed historian ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • Dreams of Equality

    Women on the Canadian Left, 1920-1950

    by Joan Sangster ...
    Series series Canadian Social History Series
    Canadian women on the political left in the first half of the twentieth century fought with varying degrees of commitment for women's rights. Women's dreams of equality were in part a vision of economic and class equality, though they also represented profound desires for equality with men - both within their own parties and in the larger society. In both the Communist Party of Canada and the Co ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • The Violence of Work

    New Essays in Canadian and US Labour History

    Edited by Jeremy Milloy, Joan Sangster ...
    From mining to sex work and from the classroom to the docks, violence has always been a part of work. This collection of essays highlights the many different forms and expressions of violence that have arisen under capitalism in the last two hundred years, as well as how historians of working-class life and labour have understood violence. The editors draw together diverse case studies, ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Girl Trouble

    Female Delinquency in English Canada

    by Joan Sangster ...
    Rarely a week goes by when juvenile delinquency or the Young Offenders Act are not discussed in the dominant media. Are we witnessing a moral panic over youth crime or a spate of “child-blaming” driven by the politics of law and order? Sangster traces the history of young women and crime and in so doing punctures dozens of myths surrounding these issues. Girl Trouble uncovers the voices of girls ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • The Iconic North

    Cultural Constructions of Aboriginal Life in Postwar Canada

    by Joan Sangster ...
    Recent archaeological discoveries in the polar region have reanimated stock images of the intrepid explorer who braves the elements to bring modernity to a frigid northern wasteland. The Iconic North reveals that ideological assumptions, economic priorities, and a shift in government strategy in the postwar era all influenced how northern culture was represented in popular Canadian imagery. ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Transforming Labour

    Women and Work in Postwar Canada

    by Joan Sangster ...
    The increased participation of women in the labour force was one of the most significant changes to Canadian social life during the quarter century after the close of the Second World War. Transforming Labour offers one of the first critical assessments of women's paid labour in this era, a period when more and more women, particularly those with families, were going 'out to work'.Using case ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

  • Through Feminist Eyes

    Essays on Canadian Women’s History

    by Joan Sangster ...
    Through Feminist Eyes gathers in one volume the most incisive and insightful essays written to date by the distinguished Canadian historian Joan Sangster. To the original essays, Sangster has added reflective introductory discussions that situate her earlier work in the context of developing theory and debate. Sangster has also supplied an introduction to the collection in which she reflects on ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Essays in the History of Canadian Law, Volume XII

    New Essays in Women's History

    Edited by Lori Chambers, Joan Sangster ...
    Series Book 12 - Essays in the History of Canadian Law
    Drawing on engaging case studies, Essays in the History of Canadian Law brings the law to life. The contributors to this collection provide rich historical and social context for each case, unravelling the process of legal decision-making and explaining the impact of the law on the people involved in legal disputes. Examining the law not simply as legislation and institutions, but as discourse, ... Read more

    $75.99 CAD

  • Journal of the Canadian Historical Association. Vol. 28 No. 1, 2017

    by Ian Wereley, Joan Sangster, Kevin Woodger, Jodey Nurse-Gupta, Stéphane Savard, James Forbes, Karine R. Duhamel, Nicholas Tošaj, Geoffrey Reaume ...
    Series Book 28 - Journal of the Canadian Historical Association
    This article examines examples of settler-initiated political alliances with Indigenous peoples in Canada over the twentieth century, placing them in their social and historical context, and assessing their insights as well as ideological and material limitations. I explore four very different examples, ranging from protests over the dispossession of land to attempts to preserve Indigenous ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Journal of the Canadian Historical Association. Vol. 23 No. 1, 2012

    by Beth A. Robertson, Michael Eamon, Robin Jarvis Brownlie, Dan Horner, Colin Grittner, Joanna L. Pearce, Dominique Marquis, Benjamin Bryce, Rebecca Beausaert, Janice Cavell, Joan Sangster, Allan Downey ...
    Series Book 23 - Journal of the Canadian Historical Association
    At the height of the American Revolution in 1779, the Quebec Library was created by Governor Sir Frederick Haldimand. For Haldimand, the library had a well-defined purpose: to educate the public, diffuse useful knowledge, and bring together the French and English peoples of the colony. Over the years, the memory of this institution has faded and the library has tended to be framed as an historical ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD