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Record Nr.

UNINA9910456170303321

Titolo

Creating historical memory [[electronic resource] ] : English-Canadian women and the work of history / / edited by Beverly Boutilier and Alison Prentice

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Vancouver, : UBC Press, c1997

ISBN

1-283-13160-9

0-7748-5357-3

9786613131607

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (321 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

BoutilierBeverly <1963->

PrenticeAlison L

Disciplina

305.4/0971

Soggetti

Women - Canada - Historiography

Women - Canada - History

Women historians - Canada - History

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Introduction: Locating Women in the Work of History / Beverly Boutilier and Alison Prentice -- Part 1: Community Building -- 2. Cultivating a Love of Canada through History: Agnes Maule Machar, 1837-1927 / Dianne M. Hallman -- 3. Women's Rights and Duties: Sarah Anne Curzon and the Politics of Canadian History / Beverly Boutilier -- 4. Ontario Women's Institutes and the Work of Local History / Linda M. Ambrose -- Part 2: Transitions -- 5. 'Writing Teaches Us Our Mysteries': Women Religious Recording and Writing History / Elizabeth Smyth -- 6. 'I walk my own track in life & no mere male can bump me off it': Constance Lindsay Skinner and the Work of History / Jean Barman -- 7. Isabel Skelton: Precursor to Canadian Cultural History / Terry Crowley -- Part 3: The Academy -- 8. Laying Siege to the History Professoriate / Alison Prentice -- 9. A View from the Front Steps: Esther Clark Wright and the Making of a Maritime Historian / Barry M. Moody -- 10. Kathleen Wood-Legh: A Canadian in Cambridge / Megan J. Davies and Colin M. Coates -- Part 4: New Departures -- 11. Women's



History: Founding a New Field / Deborah Gorham