Rethinking Canada The Promise of Women's History

This now standard text examines key developments in Canadian history--form the founding of New France to the present--while highlighting the distinctive texture of women's experiences and identities. Of the 24 articles, 16 are new. Topics now include widows and orphans in 18th-century Quebec, women and slavery in early Canada, aboriginal/non-aboriginal marriage in colonial Canada, housewives in the Great Depression, wartime narratives of Japanese-Canadian women, lesbian bar cultures in the 1950s and 60s, and feminist discourse after the 9/11 attacks.Gleason, Mona is the author of 'Rethinking Canada The Promise of Women's History', published 2006 under ISBN 9780195423501 and ISBN 019542350X.