Books – Women’s Studies

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  No Man’s Land

  The Life and Art of Mary Riter Hamilton

  Kathryn A. Young (Author), Sarah M. McKinnon (Author)

  A life embracing new opportunities for women at the beginning of the twentieth century.

  Published October 2017 | Art & Architecture, Social History, Women’s Studies

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  Imperial Plots

  Women, Land, and the Spadework of British Colonialism on the Canadian Prairies

  Sarah Carter (Author)

  Longing for land of their own.

  Published October 2016 | Gender Studies, History, Social History, Women’s Studies

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  Indigenous Women, Work, and History

  1940–1980

  Mary Jane Logan McCallum (Author)

  A modern history of Indigenous labour in the Canadian workforce.

  Published May 2014 | Critical Studies in Native History, History, Indigenous Studies, Women’s Studies

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  Finding a Way to the Heart

  Feminist Writings on Aboriginal and Women’s History in Canada

  Robin Jarvis Brownlie (Editor), Valerie J. Korinek (Editor)

  Provocative reflections on a generation of feminist scholarship.

  Published April 2012 | Indigenous Studies, Women’s Studies

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  Life Stages and Native Women

  Memory, Teachings, and Story Medicine

  Kim Anderson (Author)

  A rare and inspiring guide to the health and well-being of Aboriginal women and their communities.

  Published September 2011 | Critical Studies in Native History, History, Indigenous Studies, Women’s Studies

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  Restoring the Balance

  First Nations Women, Community, and Culture

  Eric Guimond (Editor), Gail Guthrie Valaskakis (Editor), Madeline Dion Stout (Editor)

  Restoring the Balance brings to light the work First Nations women have performed, and continue to perform, in cultural continuity and community development. It illustrates the challenges and successes they have had in the areas of law, politics, education, community healing, language, and art, while suggesting significant options for sustained improvement of individual, family, and community well-being.

  Published November 2008 | Indigenous Studies, Women’s Studies

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  Mennonite Women in Canada

  A History

  Marlene Epp (Author)

  Mennonite Women in Canada traces the complex social history and multiple identities of Canadian Mennonite women over 200 years. Marlene Epp explores women’s roles, as prescribed and as lived, within the contexts of immigration and settlement, household and family, church and organizational life, work and education, and in response to social trends and events.

  Published October 2008 | Studies in Immigration and Culture, Ethnic Studies, History, Women’s Studies

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  A Great Restlessness

  The Life and Politics of Dorise Nielsen

  Faith Johnston (Author)

  Dorise Nielsen was a pioneering feminist, a radical politician, the first Communist elected to Canada’s House of Commons, and the only woman elected in 1940. But despite her remarkable career, until now little has been known about her.

  Published October 2006 | History, Political Studies, Women’s Studies

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  Making Ends Meet

  Farm Women’s Work in Manitoba

  Charlotte van de Vorst (Author)

  Based on hundreds of interviews with Manitoba farm men and women, Making Ends Meet reconstructs the common history shared by modern farm women as well as by their mothers and grandmothers. It explores women’s changing roles on the farm, from the early days of the Red River settlement to the twentieth-century farm community.

  Published December 2002 | History, Women’s Studies

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  In Her Own Voice

  Childbirth Stories from Mennonite Women

  Katherine Martens (Author)

  Winnipeg writer Katherine Martens interviewed 26 women from the Mennonite community in southern Manitoba, ranging in age from 22 to 88 years old. In the privacy of their kitchens and parlours, over sociable cups of tea, they share with Martens their private fears and joys about what was often seen as a rite of passage into responsible adulthood, and they recalled that childbirth could be a difficult and, at times, traumatic event, but it could also be a radiant and spiritual experience.

  Published May 1997 | Ethnic Studies, Women’s Studies