Sisters or strangers? : immigrant, ethnic and racialized women in Canadian history / edited by Marlene Epp and Franca Iacovetta.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Epp, Marlene, editor.

Iacovetta, Franca, editor.

Series:

Studies in gender and history ; 44.

Studies in Gender and History ; 44

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women immigrants--Canada--History.

Women immigrants.

Minority women--Canada--History.

Minority women.

Women--Canada--History.

Women.

Canada.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (622 pages).

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Toronto, [Ontario] ; Buffalo, [New York] ; London, [England] : University of Toronto Press, [2016]

Summary:

"The second edition of this influential essay collection expands its chronological and conceptual scope with fifteen new essays that reflect the latest cutting-edge research in Canadian women's history. Introductions to each thematic section include discussion questions and suggestions for further reading, making the book an even more valuable classroom resource than before."-- Provided by publisher.

"Spanning more than two hundred years of history, from the eighteenth century to the twenty-first, Sisters or Strangers? explores the complex lives of immigrant, ethnic, and racialized women in Canada. Among the themes examined in this new edition are the intersection of race, crime, and justice, the creation of white settler societies, letters and oral histories, domestic labour, the body, political activism, food studies, gender and ethnic identity, and trauma, violence, and memory."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction / MARLENE EPP AND FRANCA IACOVETTA

PART ONE: Race, Crime, and Justice .A New Biography of the African Diaspora: The Odyssey of Marie-Joseph Angelique, Black Portuguese Slave Woman in New France, 1725-1734 / AFUA COOPER

Unpacking the Discursive Irish Women Immigrant in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-century Newfoundland / WILLEEN KEOUGH

The Tale of Lin Tee: Madness, Family Violence, and Lindsay's Anti-Chinese Riot of 1919 / LISA R. MAR.

PART TWO: The Making of White Settler Societies. Turning Strangers into Sisters? Missionaries and Colonization in Upper Canada / CECILIA MORGAN

Whose Sisters and What Eyes? White Women, Race, and Immigration to British Columbia, 1849-1871 / ADELE PERRY

Exclusion through Inclusion: Female Asian Migration in the Making of Canada as a White Settler Nation / ENAKSHI DUA.

PART THREE: Letters and Tales of Settlement and Longing. Letters 'home' from Canada: British Female Emigrants and the Imperial Family of Women / LISA CHILTON

The Interplay of Ethnicity and Gender: Swedish Women in Southeastern Saskatchewan / LESLEY ERICKSON

From Montreal and Venice with Love: Migrant Letters and Romantic Intimacy in Italian Migration to Postwar Canada / SONIA CANCIAN.

PART FOUR: Labouring Domestics and Canadian Constraints. In Search of Comfort and Independence: Irish Immigrant Domestic Servants Encounter the Courts, Jails, and Asylums in Nineteenth-Century Ontario / LORNA R. MCLEAN AND MARILYN BARBER

Taming and Training Greek "Peasant Girls" and the Gendered Politics of Whiteness in Postwar Canada: Canadian Bureaucrats and Immigrant Domestics, 1950s-1960s / NOULA MINA

I Care for You, Who Cares for Me? Transitional Services for Filipino Live-in Caregivers in Canada / GLENDA TIBE BONIFACIO.

PART FIVE : Constructing Symbols and Bodies. Fashioning Conflicts: Gender, Power, and Icelandic Immigrant Hair and Clothing in North America, 1874-1933 / LAURIE K. BERTRAM

A Larger Frame: 'Redressing' the Image of Doukhobor-Canadian Women in the Twentieth Century / ASHLEIGH ANDROSOFF

Propaganda and Identity Construction: Media Representation in Canada of Finnish and Finnish-Canadian Women during the Winter War of 1939-1940 / VARPU LINDSTROM.

PART SIX: Activists and Political Subjects. Canadian Citizens or Dangerous Foreign Women? Canada's Radical Consumer Movement, 1947-1950 / JULIE GUARD

Haitian Feminist Diasporic Lakou: Haitian Women's Community Organizing in Montreal, 1960-1980 / GRACE L. SANDERS JOHNSON

An Unlikely Collection of Union Militants? Portuguese Cleaning Women Become Political Subjects in Postwar Toronto / SUSANA MIRANDA.

PART SEVEN: Food, Family, and Culture. The Semiotics of Zwieback: Feast and Famine in the Narratives of Mennonite Refugee Women / MARLENE EPP

Jello-O Salads, One-Stop Shopping, and Maria the Homemaker: The Gender Politics of Food / FRANCA IACOVETTA AND VALERIE J. KORINEK

Consuming Food and Constructing Identities among Arabic and South Asian Immigrant Women HELEN VALLIANATOS AND KIM RAINE.

PART EIGHT: History, Identity, and Belonging. 'Slotting' Chinese Families and Refugees, 1947-1967 / LAURA MADOKORO

Experience and Identity: Black Immigrant Nurses to Canada, 1950-1980 / KAREN FLYNN

The Mother of God Wears a Maple Leaf: History, Gender, and Ethnic Identity in Sacred Space / FRANCES SWYRIPA.

PART NINE: Trauma, Violence, and Memory Survival. Their Survival: Women, Memory and the Holocaust / PAULA J. DRAPER

Days You Remember: Japanese Canadian Women and the Violations of Internment / PAMELA SUGIMAN

Feminist Oral History and Assessing the Dueling Narratives of Iraqi Women in Diaspora / NADIA JONES-GAILANI.

Notes:

Revision of: Sisters or strangers.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed October 10, 2016).

ISBN:

9781442625938

9781442625945

1-4426-2593-7

OCLC:

1355694160