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Marlene Epp, Franca Iacovetta, Frances Swyripa, eds., Sisters or Strangers?
Immigrant, Ethnic, and Racialized Women in Canadian History, Toronto,
University of Toronto Press, 2004.
Carol Williams, Framing the West: Race, Gender and the Photographic
Frontier in the Pacific Northwest (New York: Oxford UP 2003)--[available
in
paperback from OUP Canada or OUP-US]
Connie Wawruck-Hemmett (Ph.D. Candidate, Dalhousie University) will be presenting
a paper at the Canadian Association of Slavists conference at the University
of Manitoba this June:
"Mixed Messages: Materinstvo Images in Komsomol'skaia pravda, 1929-1936"
This presentation will be part of her Ph.D. dissertation in progress on visual representation of women in the Soviet Communist Youth League press.
Karen Duder has won the 2003 Canadian Committee on Women's History Hilda Neatby Prize, English-Language article, for the best article on women's history published in English in 2003. Her winning article is "Public Acts and Private Languages: Bisexuality and the Multiple Discourses of Constance Grey Swartz" B.C. Studies, 136 (Winter 2002-3)
The citation is as follows: In a very strong competition, this article impressed committee members with its innovative theoretical discussion and use of one woman's personal writings to make a major intervention in the history of sexuality. It explores the sexual and emotional relationships of Constance Grey Swartz between the 1920s and mid 1930s. Her sexuality, Duder argues, cannot be captured readily in the dominant approaches and questions posed within most writing in lesbian, gay and bisexual history. Duder draws on the rich writings she left to break down the polarities of hetero/homosexual and to offer readers tantalizing glimpses into the life of this middle-class British Columbian woman who, during her twenties and early thirties, relished relationships with male and female lovers.
Patricia Jasen won honorable mention for the 2003 Hilda Neatby Prize, English Language article, for "Malignant Histories: Psychosomatic Medicine and the Female Cancer Patient in Postwar America," Canadian Bulletin of Medical History, 20, 2 (November 2003)
The citation is as follows: Patricia Jasen's "Maligant Histories: Psychosomatic Medicine and the Female Cancer Patient in Postwar America" is a mature, compelling mix of theory and meticulous empirical work that concentrates primarily on medical discourses to provide a new understanding of the way in which postwar scientific "experts," created gendered explanations of the causes of cancer.
Feminism and the Making of Canada: Historical Reflections/ Le féminisme
et le façonnement du Canada: Réflexions sur lhistoire
A Conference at McGill University/ Un colloque qui aura lieu à l'Université
McGill
7-9 May/Mai 2004
Women's history, gender history, and feminist analyses of Canadian history have had a profound impact on how Canadians see our past, our present, and the world around us. This conference will take stock of the writing and impact of feminist histories in Canada, assessing the accomplishments and difficulties of re-writing Canada', and connecting our work to international, interdisciplinary, and political trends.
Lhistoire des femmes et des rapports sociaux entre les sexes, de même que les contributions féministes en histoire du Canada ont eu un grand impact sur la façon dont les Canadien-ne-s voient le passé, le présent et le monde qui les entoure. Ce colloque sera loccasion de mesurer cet impact au Canada anglais et au Québec. Il permettra de porter un regard critique sur lécriture et limpact des histoires féministes canadiennes jusquà présent en rendant compte des réalisations et des difficultés associées à la «réécriture du Canada», de même quen situant le travail déjà effectué ou en cours par rapport aux différents courants internationaux, interdisciplinaires et politiques.
We would like to thank/Nous voudrions remercier:
The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada/le Conseil de
recherches en sciences humaines du Canada; Frost Centre, Trent University; et
à lUniversité McGill: the Department of History, the Faculty of
Arts, the Institute for the Study of Canada, and the Office of the Vice-Principal
(Research).
Conference Organizers:
Professor <mailto:jsangster@trentu.ca>Joan Sangster
Frost Centre for Canadian Studies and Native Studies
Trent University, Peterborough
Professor <mailto:suzanne.morton@mcgill.ca>Suzanne
Morton
Department of History
McGill University
Professor <mailto:fahrni.magda@uqam.ca>Magda
Fahrni
Département d'histoire
Université du Québec à Montréal
7 MAY/MAI (FRIDAY/VENDREDI)
9:00 Opening Remarks
9:30- 10:45: Rewriting the 'Nation'/Réécrire l'histoire de la nation
Chair: Micheline Dumont (Université de Sherbrooke)
Denyse Baillargeon, (Département d'histoire, Université de Montréal)
L'histoire des femmes et les débats historiographiques recénts
au Québec:
une absence remarquée
Erin Stewart Eves (Canadian Studies, Trent University), A Question of Agency: Aboriginal Women in Canadian and Australian History Texts
Mary-Jo Nadeau (Sociology, York University) and Sarita Srivastava (Sociology, Queens University) Re-Writing the Borders: Nation, Race and the Narration of Canadian Feminism
11:00-12:15: Rewriting the 'Nation'/Réécrire l'histoire de la
nation ( ...
suite ...)
Chair: Nadia Fahmy-Eid (Département d'histoire, UQAM)
Heather Murray (History, University of Massachusetts, Amherst) Canadian Gay History and Intellectual History.
Ruby Heap, (Département d'histoire, Université d'Ottawa) L'impact
du féminisme sur l'histoire des sciences et du génie au Québec
depuis les
années 1980"
Jane Nicholas (History, University of Waterloo) Feminist History, Critical Theory and Canadian National History in the 1990s
1:15 - 2:45: Re-Writing War and Peace in the Canadian Context/Réécrire l'histoire de la guerre et de la paix dans le contexte canadien
Chair: Tamara Myers (History, University of Winnipeg)
Frances Early (History, Mount St. Vincent University) Re-framing the War Narrative: The Voice of Women of Canada and the Opposition to the Vietnam War
Helen Smith (History/Women's Studies, Lakehead University) and Pamela Wakewich (Sociology, Lakehead University), The Personal as Public: Critical Reflections on Making Canadian Women's Wartime History.
Pamela Sugiman (Sociology, McMaster University), Beyond Words, These Feelings That Fill My Heart: Exploring Japanese Canadian Women's Lives through Oral Testimony
3:00-4:30: Gender, Race and Film/Artistic Representation/Représentations artistiques de la "race" et des rapports sociaux de sexe
Chair: Sarah Carter (History, University of Calgary)
Constance Backhouse (Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa) Historical Memory, Film and Race in Canadian History: The Story of Lem Wong
Margot Francis, (Anthropology, York University) The Beaver Bites Back:
Artists re-imagine anthropomorphic discourse and national history
Penny Wheelwright (film producer/director, Wheelwright Ink Productions)
Film, Fantasy and Fur: Representations of Women'ds History from a Filmmaker's
Perspective
4:30: Showing of The Orkney Lad
8 MAY/MAI (SATURDAY/SAMEDI)
9:30-10:45 Re-thinking the History of the Family/Repenser l'histoire de la famille
Chair: Bettina Bradbury (History, York University)
Katrina Srigley (History, University of Toronto), Living the family ideal?: Three Toronto families during the Depression
Yolande Cohen, (Département d'histoire UQAM), Les premières politique sociales au Québec dans les annees 1930: maternalistes ou familialistes?
Nancy Christie (Hamilton, Ontario) The Private Realm of Female Resistance: Women and Family in Nineteenth Century Canada
11:00-12:30: Public History, Memory and Culture/ L'histoire "publique", la mémoire et la culture
Chair: Joanne Burgess (Histoire, UQAM)
Joanne Dillabough (Education, University of British Columbia) and Anna van der Muelen (OISE), A Magnified Image of Female Youth Homelessness in Canada: History, Photography and the Contemporary Political Subject
Katherine McKenna, (Department of History, University of Western Ontario) Gender Politics and the Interpretation of Canadian Historic Sites
Corinne Rusch-Drutz (Department of Theatre, York University), Re-visioning Women's Theatre History in Toronto: Looking at Red Light Theatre:
1:30-3:00: Pre-Industrial Gender History/ Les sociétés préindustrielles
et
le genre
Chair: Jan Noel (University of Toronto)
Carolyn Podruchny, (History and American Studies, Western Michigan University) Bear Tales: Voyageurs and Masculinity in the Montreal Fur Trade
Dominique Deslandres (Département d'histoire, Université de Montréal) Genre, vocation et mission au début de la Nouvelle-France
Colleen Gray (History, McGill University) Imagining a Colonial Saint: The Making of a Seventeenth Century Canadian Nun
3:15-4:45: Feminism, the Nation and MaternalismReconsidered/ Repenser le
féminisme, la nation et le maternalisme
Chair: Karine Hébert (Histoire, Université du Québec à Rimouski)
Cheryl Anne Gosselin, (History, Bishops University) Vers l'avenir: Quebec Women's Politics Between 1945 and 1967: Feminist, Maternalist and Nationalist Links
Nancy Forestell, (Women's Studies, St. Francis Xavier University) Mrs. Canada Goes Global: Canadian First Wave Feminism Revisited
Cathy Cavanaugh, (Women's Studies and History, Athabasca University) Fabula Inerrupta: Feminists Reinterpreting Prairie History
9 MAY/MAI (SUNDAY/DIMANCHE)
9:00-10:30: Biography and Gender History/Biographie, féminisme et genre
Chair: Monda Halpern (History, University of Western Ontario)
Nancy Butler, (History, Queens University) Mother Russia and the Socialist Fatherland: Bourgeois Women in the Communist Party, 1930-60
Elizabeth Kirkland, (History McGill University) Biography as a Tool for Feminist History?
Peter Campbell, (Canadian Studies, Queens University) The Heroic and the Feminist in the Life and Thought of Rose Henderson
10:45-12:00: Roundtable: Teaching Women's History in the new Millenium/Table ronde: l'enseignement de l'histoire des femmes à l'aube du nouveau millénaire
Chair: Shirley Tillotson (Dalhousie University)
Karen Balcom (History and Women's Studies, McMaster University) Theories and Practices: Teaching Feminist Theory/Teaching Women's History
Isabelle Lehuu, (Histoire, UQAM) Proximité et altérite: Les défis de l'enseignement de l'histoire des Américaines au Québec
Eileen OConnor, (History, University of Ottawa) Tales of Two Solitudes?: Teaching Canadian Women's History in a Bilingual Classroom
Jane Errington, (History, RMC) Teaching Women's and Gender History at a Military College
DÎNER ET RÉFLEXIONS:
Andrée Lévesque (History), McGill University
Mary Anne Poutanen (History), McGill University
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10 am-12 noon: Winnipeg General Strike bus tour at the Ukrainian Labour Temple, 591 Pritchard, Winnipeg.
Noon-2PM: Lunch and Celebration of the 85th Anniversary of the Ukrianian Labour
Temple Presentation by Myron Shalusky, "Culture and
Politics: Progressive Ukrianians in Winnipeg"
2PM-3:30PM: “Winnipeg's Radical Past: Women on the Left”- Featuring personal narratives by Lin Gibson, Ellen Krueger, Roz Usiskin, and other activist participants.
4PM-5:30PM: “From Schreyer to Doer: Does an NDP Government Make Any Difference
for Workers?”
Panelists: Becky Barrett (former Minister of Labour), Neil Cohen, Karen Naylor,
Catherine Stearns, Errol Black
5:30PM-6PM: Socializing and drinks (cash bar)
6-9PM Banquet (including vegetarian options)
Presentation: Joe Zuken Community Activist Award Featured Speaker: David Montgomery
on "Workers Confront Imperialism: 1919
and 2004"
Music by the Winnipeg Labour Choir
David Montgomery is a leading radical historian and author of many books, including The Fall of the House of Labor and Workers' Control in America. He recently retired from the Department of History at Yale University.
This event is organized by the Canadian Committee on Labour History, the Canadian
Society for Ukrainian Labour Research and the Society for Socialist Studies,
with the support of the Joseph Zuken Memorial Association, M.F.L,
C.U.P.E., and M.G.E.U.
ADVANCE REGISTRATION REQUESTED
by June 3rd if possible.
registration for the entire event (includes lunch, banquet and evening lecture):
$40 regular / $25 student and low-income rate registration for the day sessions
and lunch only: $10
Montgomery lecture only: $3
Please send cheques payable to "Society for Socialist Studies" to:
Jesse Vorst
Society for Socialist Studies
University College
University of Manitoba
Winnipeg, MB, R3T 2M8
For further information, please contact Nolan Reilly: n.reilly@uwinnipeg.ca
204-786-9012
The Canadian Committee on Women's History recently created a subcommittee to more effectively address issues of recruiting younger scholars, aiming for a greater degree of diversity in the composition of the organization, and to more effectively integrate younger scholars and their concerns and issues into the CCWH. The committee came up with a number of important suggestions to further these goals. The committee was primarily composed of younger scholars, including Lisa Chilton, Catherine Carstairs, Sharon Myers, Myra Rutherdale, Mona Gleason, Essylt Jones, Nancy Janovicek, Heidi Bohaker, as well as Franca Iacovetta, acting in an advisory capacity.
This Spring Carol Williams (Women's Studies and History, University of Lethbridge) is the Institute for Oral History 2003-2004 research fellow at Baylor University (Waco, Texas) where she is beginning a new project on Native American women's social and cultural activism using oral history tapes and transcripts entitled Dallas Indian Urbanization Project—these are concerned with Native American's who were relocated to Dallas under the federal relocation program in the 1970s.
Compiled by Lynne Marks