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Title Minds of our own : inventing feminist scholarship and women's studies in Canada and Québec, 1966-76 / edited by Wendy Robbins [and others]
Published Waterloo, Ont. : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, ©2008

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 398 pages)
Contents Women's organizations (before 1960) -- Women's changing social positon -- The women's movement of the 1960s and 1970s -- Women in post-secondary education -- Feminist scholarship and women's studies -- Creating a tradition of Canadian women writers and feminsist literary criticism / Clara Thomas -- Mother was not a person, so I become a feminist / Marguerite Andersen -- Fanning fires: Women's studies in a school of social work / Helen Levine with Faith Schneider -- Feminism: A critcal theory of knowledge / Marie-Andrée Bertrand -- Women's studies: A personal story / Dorothy E. Smith -- Contributing to the establishment of women's studies and gender relations / Anita Caron -- Feminism and a scholarly friendship / Jill Ker Conway and Natalie Zemon Davis -- Midwife to the birth of women's studies at McGill / Margaret Gillett -- How the Simone de Beauvoir Institute of Concordia University grew from unlikely beginnings / Maïr Verthyuy -- Moments in the making of a feminist historian / Alison Prentice -- Doing feminist studies without knowing it / Micheline Dumont -- A matrix of creativity / Frieda Johles Forman -- Transforming the academy and the world / Deborah Gorham -- Reminiscences of a male supporter of the movement towrds women's liberation and social equality / Leslie Marshall -- You just had to be there / Greta Hofmann Nemiroff -- The second wave: A personal voyage / Sandra Pyke -- A lifetime of struggles to belong / Vanaja Dhruvarajan -- Once upon a time there was the feminist movements ... and then there was feminist studies / Nadia Fahmy-Eid -- Women's studies at he University of Alberta / Rosalind Sydie, Patricia Prestwich, and Dallas Cullen -- Women's studies and the trajectory of women in academe / Annette Kolodny -- Women's studies at Simon Fraser University, 1966-76: A dialogue / Andrea Lebowitz, Honoree Newcombe, and Meredith M. Kimball -- Nascent, incipient, embryonic, and ceremonial women's studies / Linda Christiansen-Ruffman -- To challenge the world / Margrit Eichler -- From male and female roles to sex and gender relations: A scientific and political trajectory / Danielle Juteau -- Second wave breaks on the shore of U of T / Lorna Marsden -- Surviving political science ... and loving it / Jill Vickers -- Blood on the chapel floor: Adventures in women's studies / Kay Armatage -- Genesis of a journal / Donna E. Smyth -- The saga / Marylee Stephenson -- Coming fo age with women's studies / Meredith M. Kimball -- Doing women's studies / Pat Armstrong -- Pioneer in feminist political economy: Overcoming the disjuncture / Joan McFarland -- Women's studies at Guelph / Terry Crowley -- Women's studies: Oppression and liberation in the university / Meg Luxton -- Reflections on teaching and writing feminist philosophy in the 1970s / Susan Sherwin -- From marginalized to "establishment": Doing feminist sociology in Canada, Australia, and New Zealand / Maureen Baker -- "To ring true and stand for something" / Wendy Robbins -- Socialist feminist and activist educator / Linda Briskin -- My path to feminist philosophy, 1970-76 / Christine Overall -- Women's sight: Looking backwards into women's studies in Toronto / Ceta Ramkhalawansingh -- The patriarchal context -- Countervailing social movements -- Intersections of gender, racialization, class, and sexual orientation -- Inventing a new scholarship and new sturctures -- Disciplinarity and/or interdisciplinarity -- Student-teacher relations -- Personal impacts -- Interesting times
Summary This book of personal essays by over forty women and men who founded women's studies in Canada and Qu?c explores feminist activism on campus in the pivotal decade of 1966-76. The essays document the emergence of women's studies as a new way of understanding women, men, and society, and they challenge some current preconceptions about "second wave" feminist academics. The contributors explain how the intellectual and political revolution begun by small groups of academics--often young, untenured women--at universities across Canada contributed to social progress and profoundly affected the way
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 357-388) and index
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Subject Women's studies -- Canada -- History
Women scholars -- Canada -- History
Women's studies -- Québec (Province) -- History
Feminism and education -- Canada
Discrimination in higher education -- Canada
Feminists -- Canada -- Biography
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Women's Studies.
Discrimination in higher education
Feminism and education
Feminists
Women scholars
Women's studies
Canada
Québec
Genre/Form Biographies
History
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
Author Robbins, Wendy, 1948-2017
ISBN 9781435656369
1435656369
9781554581238
1554581230