LEADER 04594nam 2200733 450 001 9910456364203321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-4426-2721-2 010 $a1-282-04541-5 010 $a9786612045417 010 $a1-4426-7550-0 024 7 $a10.3138/9781442675506 035 $a(CKB)2430000000001627 035 $a(EBL)3255401 035 $a(OCoLC)923072158 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000297873 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11267285 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000297873 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10343898 035 $a(PQKB)11040876 035 $a(CaBNvSL)thg00600813 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3255401 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4671569 035 $a(DE-B1597)479137 035 $a(OCoLC)992527040 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781442675506 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4671569 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11257275 035 $a(OCoLC)958513722 035 $a(DE-B1597)465518 035 $a(OCoLC)944178938 035 $a(OCoLC)999373716 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781442627215 035 $a(EXLCZ)992430000000001627 100 $a20160922h19971997 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aGreat dames /$fedited by Elspeth Cameron and Janice Dickin 210 1$aToronto, [Ontario] ;$aBuffalo, [New York] ;$aLondon, [England] :$cUniversity of Toronto Press,$d1997. 210 4$d©1997 215 $a1 online resource (351 p.) 225 0 $aHeritage 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a0-8020-7215-1 327 $tFrontmatter --$tContents --$tIntroduction --$tJust the Facts? --$t'Write Down Everything Just as You Know It': A Portrait of Ibolya Szalai Grossman --$tVictims of the Times, Heroes of Their Lives: Five Mennonite Refugee Women --$tDriving towards Death --$tCreating Facts --$tDear Ruth: This Is the Story of Maggie Wilson, Ojibwa Ethnologist --$tCasting Light on Women in the Shadow of the Law: Toronto at the Turn of the Century --$tStruggle to Create --$tFrom Bovarysme to Automatisme (and Beyond): Thérèse Renaud and the Refus global Women --$tThe Wrong Time and the Wrong Place: Gwethalyn Graham, 1913-1965 --$t'Traditional' Lives --$tSettling the Score with Myths of Settlement: Two Women Who Roughed It and Wrote It --$tAnna of Intola: A Finnish-Canadian Woman with Sisu --$tSoaring to New Heights: Changes in the Life Course of Mabel McIntosh --$tBreaking into 'Men's Professions' --$tMarion Milliard: 'Raring to Go All the Time7 --$t'By Title and by Virtue': Lady Frederick and Dr Henrietta Ball Banting --$tElizabeth Allin: Physicist --$tGiving Voice --$t'Out of a Cardboard Box beside Our Bed like a Baby': The Founders of Sister Vision Press --$tEvelyn Garbary: 'For Those of Us Whose Bones Are Stage Props' --$tContributors --$tIllustration Credits --$tIndex 330 $aGreat Dames is a collection of biographical sketches, memoirs, and essays about twentieth-century Canadian women from all walks of life. While attempting to capture the meaning of the ordinary lives of extraordinary women, it also explores the possibility of challenging, even subverting, the traditional view of life writing as an endeavour to summarize and fix in time, the public careers of public men. The fifteen essays represent a variety of alternative approaches to feminist biography, including chronological narrative, thematic exploration, multiple biography, conversations between biographer and subject, interviews, diaries, and even fictional accounts.In selecting their subjects, from Mennonite refugee women to an Ojibwa ethnologist, the contributors were asked to consider women who would be unlikely candidates for longer biographies; in the course of their research, however, it became clear that the lives of at least two of the chosen subjects warranted book-length examination. The selection also attempts to address perceived gaps in regional, class, racial, and disciplinary representation in life writing.Together, the essays reveal that the content, form, and perspective of biography are now bound only by the creativity, research energy, and taste of the biographer. 606 $aWomen$zCanada$vBiography 607 $aCanada$vBiography 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aWomen 676 $a920.720971 700 $aBrock$b Peter, $0485308 702 $aCameron$b Elspeth$f1943- 702 $aDickin$b Janice 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910456364203321 996 $aGreat dames$92485343 997 $aUNINA