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Believe and begin - Mt. Everest has followed Sharon Wood wherever she goes since her historic ascent of the peak in 1986. Over three decades later, her memoir Rising not only chronicles that achievement, but also culminates a writing process as challenging as the climb itself
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25145
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- Library - Periodical
- Published Date
- May 2020
- Author
- Croston, Joanna
- Publisher
- Crowfoot Media
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- P
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- Author
- Croston, Joanna
- Responsibility
- Joanna Croston
- Publisher
- Crowfoot Media
- Published Date
- May 2020
- Physical Description
- p.50 - 55
- Medium
- Library - Periodical
- Subjects
- Women
- Wood, Sharon
- Everest, Mount
- Authors
- Biography
- Abstract
- Pertains to Sharon Woods career as climber and author with focus on her new book "Rising"
- Notes
- In Canadian Rockies Annual, vol.05, May 2020
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- Archives Library
- URL Notes
- Website for Crowfoot Media - publishers of Canadian Rockies Annual
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The Berenice Abbot portfolios
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue21088
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1982
- Author
- Tousley, Nancy
- Publisher
- Calgary : Glenbow-Alberta Institute
- Call Number
- TR140 B4 T68
- Author
- Tousley, Nancy
- Responsibility
- Nancy Tousley
- Publisher
- Calgary : Glenbow-Alberta Institute
- Published Date
- 1982
- Physical Description
- 47p. : ill., ports.
- Subjects
- Abbot, Berenice, 1898- - Criticism and interpretation
- Women photographers - Canada - Exhibitions
- Notes
- Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Glenbow Museum, Feb. 25-Apr. 8, 1992, and travelling to other galleries.
- Call Number
- TR140 B4 T68
- Location
- Art Library is located in Curatorial Department - Please contact Curatorial Department for access
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- Art Library
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Brushes with climate change - Rockies Repeat project explores the intersection between conservation, art, history, and culture
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25227
- Medium
- Library - Periodical
- Published Date
- 2020
- Author
- Campbell, Brooke
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- P
1 website
- Author
- Campbell, Brooke
- Responsibility
- Brooke Campbell
- Published Date
- 2020
- Physical Description
- p. 12 - 13
- Medium
- Library - Periodical
- Abstract
- Pertains to the Rockies Repeat Project which involves a group of women travelling to specific locations and re-creating the paintings of Peter Whyte and Catharine Robb Whyte with the end result of creating a documentary, exhibition and digital storytelling capsule
- Notes
- In Canada's History, Vol. 101, No.2 (April-May)
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- Archives Library
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- Available online
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Echo loba, loba echo : of wisdom, wolves and women
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26217
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- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2023
- Author
- Swift, Sonja
- Publisher
- Victoria, BC : Rocky Mountain Books
- Call Number
- 04 S5e
- Author
- Swift, Sonja
- Responsibility
- Foreword by Winona LaDuke
- Publisher
- Victoria, BC : Rocky Mountain Books
- Published Date
- 2023
- Physical Description
- 248 pages ; 20 cm
- Subjects
- Wolves
- Wildlife
- Conservation
- Women
- Abstract
- A unique look at the cultural, environmental, historical, literary, metaphorical, and political role of the wolf. Echo Loba, Loba Echo is a story about the metaphor of the wolf and how this is echoed in the lives and minds of people. A metaphor that embodies worldviews colliding, and the collision, the fallout, we live with still. It is a story about wolves’ own cultures, survival stories, acts of rebellion, and vital roles in maintaining healthy territories. And it is also a story about what we have been told to forget, or never even know, and what wolves show us about ourselves. Through essay and poetry, the metaphor of the wolf, and loba – for she-wolf – is examined the way one might observe the light off a prism, in multi-dimensional ways. The associations are many and diametrically varied. Wolf as scapegoat, villain, outcast, blamed for human violence. Wolf as warrior, guide, mother to stray or orphaned children as well as her own pups. The Ojibwe word for wolf is ma’iingan: the one sent here by that all-loving spirit to show us the way. Wolf (Latin: lupus), which is another word for whore (lupa), for woman. Wolf, another word for backcountry. Yet the choice is not an easy duality, not simply between the notion of wolf as heroine or wolf as devil. -- From publisher
- ISBN
- 9781771606288
- Accession Number
- P2024.01
- Call Number
- 04 S5e
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- Archives Library
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False summit : gender in mountaineering nonfiction
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26216
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- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2021
- Author
- Rak, Julie
- Publisher
- Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press
- Call Number
- 01.1 R14f
- Author
- Rak, Julie
- Publisher
- Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press
- Published Date
- 2021
- Physical Description
- xii, 268 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm
- Abstract
- Exploring the role of gender politics in narratives about high-altitude mountaineering in the Himalayas and the Karakoram. The race to climb Everest catapulted mountain climbing, with its accompanying images of conquest and sport, into the public sphere on a global scale. But as a metaphor for the pinnacle of human achievement, mountaineering remains the preserve of traditional white male heroism. False Summit unpacks gender politics in the expedition narratives and memoirs of mountaineers in the Himalayas and the Karakoram. Why are women still a minority in the world's highest places? Julie Rak proposes that the genre has itself reached a "false summit"--a peak that proves not to be the pinnacle--and that mountaineering is not ready to welcome other ways of climbing or other kinds of climbers. For more than two centuries mountaineering, as an activity and as an ideal, has helped shape how the self is understood within the context of conquest, adventure, and proximity to risk. As climbing shows signs of becoming more diverse, Rak asks why change is so hard to achieve and why gender bias and other inequities exist in climbing at all. Exploring classic and lesser-known expedition accounts from Everest, K2, and Annapurna, False Summit helps us understand why mountaineering remains one of the most important ways to articulate gender identities and politics. -- Provided by publisher.
- Contents
- Leadership and Gender on Annapurna -- K2: The Gendered Rope -- Everest and Authenticity -- Everest: Gender Politics and the 1996 Disaster.
- ISBN
- 9780228006268
- Accession Number
- P2024.01
- Call Number
- 01.1 R14f
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- Archives Library
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Feeling feminism : activism, affect, and Canada's second wave
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25720
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2022
- Publisher
- Vancouver, BC : UBC Press
- Call Number
- 08.1 C15f
- Responsibility
- Edited by Lara Campbell, Michael Dawson, and Catherine Gidney
- Publisher
- Vancouver, BC : UBC Press
- Published Date
- 2022
- Physical Description
- viii, 324 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Subjects
- Feminism
- Women
- Human rights
- Activism
- Politics
- Abstract
- Feeling Feminism examines the ways in which emotions such as anger, rage, joy, and hopefulness influenced second-wave feminist theorizing and action across Canada. From beauty pageant protests to fire bombings of pornographic stores, emotions are a powerful but often unexamined force in the actions underlying feminist history. They are at play in the experiences of injustice, exclusion, caring, and suffering that have fed women's commitment to building and sustaining a new world. The movement was at its height from the mid-1960s to the early 1980s, but this groundbreaking study embraces the perspective of a long second wave, reaching back to the 1950s and forward into the early 1990s. Drawing explicitly on the history of emotions and affect theory to convey the passion, the sense of possibility, and the energizing collective political commitment that has characterized feminism, contributors reveal its full impact on contemporary Canada and highlight the contested, sometimes exclusionary nature of the movement itself. Insights from gender and women's studies, cultural and literary theory, social psychology, and sociology infuse Feeling Feminism, as the contributors explore how emotions shaped and nourished feminist activism. More generally, they demonstrate the power of emotions, desires, and actions to transform the world. -- Provided by publisher.
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- Introduction: Second-Wave Feminism and the History of Emotions / Lara Campbell, Michael Dawson, and Catherine Gidney -- Pride, Shame, and Anger: Women's Struggles to Achieve Natural Childbirth in Postwar Canada / Whitney Wood -- Good Mother of Science: Emotional Letters to Frances Oldham Kelsey during the Thalidomide Crisis / Cheryl Krasnick Warsh -- Therapeutic Political Spaces: Collective Resistance among Indigenous Women in British Columbia / Sarah A. Nickel -- "Feeling My Way": Women's Community Activism in the Company of Young Canadians / Kevin Brushett -- Tears and Tiaras: Affect, Beauty Pageants, and Protests / Patrizia Gentile -- "Jesus is not part of this collective": Secular Passions and Religious Alienation among the Sisterhood / Lynne Marks, Margaret Little, Marin Beck, Emma Paszat, and Taylor Antoniazzi -- Intense Times: Love, Fear, and Pride as Guides to Lesbian Feminist Organizing / Liz Millward -- Resisting Red Hot Video: Feminisn, Pornography, and the Political Utility of Emotion / Eryk Martin -- An Assumption of Shared Fear: Feminism, Sex Work, and the Sex Wars in 1980s Kinesis / Emma McKenna -- Emotional Scripts of Difference: Black Women Teachers and Feminist Mobilization / Funke Aladejebi -- "Briser le mur du silence": Emotions, Gender, and the 1981 Women Journalists' Conference in Quebec / Josette Brun, Laurie Laplanche, and Sophie Doucet -- Anger, Melancholia, and Hope: The Feminist Politics of Emotion and the Centre for Women and Trans People at Wilfrid Laurier University / Matthew Fesnak.
- ISBN
- 9780774866514
- Accession Number
- P2023.11
- Call Number
- 08.1 C15f
- Location
- Reading Room
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Feminism's fight : challenging politics and policies in Canada since 1970
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26202
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2023
- Publisher
- Vancouver ; Toronto : UBC Press
- Call Number
- 08.1 C14f
- Responsibility
- Edited by Barbara Cameron and Meg Luxton
- Publisher
- Vancouver ; Toronto : UBC Press
- Published Date
- 2023
- Physical Description
- 378 pages
- Abstract
- Feminism's Fight explores and assesses feminist strategies to advance gender justice through Canadian federal policy from the 1970s to the present. It tells the crucial story of a transformation in how feminism has been treated by governments and asks how new ways of organizing and emerging alliances can advance a feminist agenda of social and economic equality. This timely collection examines the ideas that feminists have put forward in pursuit of the goal of equality and traces the shifting frameworks employed by governments in response. The authors evaluate changing government orientations through the 1970s to 2020, revealing the negative impact on women's lives and the challenges posed for feminists. The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated the sexism, misogyny, and related systemic inequalities that remain widespread. Yet it has also revived feminist mobilization and animated calls for a new and comprehensive equality agenda for Canada. Feminism's Fight asks two key questions: What are the lessons from feminist engagement with federal government policy over fifty years? And what kinds of transformative policy demands will achieve the feminist goal of social and economic equality? -- Provided by publisher.
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- From the Status of Women to Gender Justice for Women / Barbara Cameron and Meg Luxton -- Sex Discrimination in the Indian Act: A Tool of Forced Assimilation / Shelagh Day and Pamela Palmater -- Feminism Meets Macroeconomic Policy / Barbara Cameron -- Never Done: The Challenge of Unpaid Work in the Home / Meg Luxton -- Fifty Years for Farm Women: Gender and Shifting Agricultural Policy Paradigms in Canada / Amber J. Fletcher -- Policy Discourses on Sexual Violence: From the Royal Commission to the (Post-)Neoliberal State / Lise Gotell -- Responsibility and Reproduction after the Royal Commission / Alana Cattapan -- The Royal Commission and Immigration and Citizenship: A Missed Opportunity? / Christina Gabriel -- Securing Income, Sustaining Livelihoods: The Royal Commission, Social Reproduction, and Income Security / Ann Porter -- Strategic, Cynical, and Sinister Representation: Reconceptualizing and Recasting Women’s Representation / Alexandra Dobrowolsky -- The Royal Commission and Unions: Leadership, Equality, Women’s Organizing, and Collective Agency / Linda Briskin -- Equality Instituted? Gender Equity, Women’s Rights, and Human Rights Commissions / Nicole S. Bernhardt -- Federalism for the Twenty-First Century: Feminism and Multilevel Governance in Canada / Tammy Findlay.
- ISBN
- 9780774868037
- Accession Number
- P2023.11
- Call Number
- 08.1 C14f
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- Archives Library
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A flannel shirt and liberty : British emigrant gentlewomen in the Canadian West, 1880-1914
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue5974
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- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1982
- Publisher
- Vancouver : University of British Columbia Press
- Call Number
- 08.2 F61
- Responsibility
- edited by Susan Jackel
- Publisher
- Vancouver : University of British Columbia Press
- Published Date
- 1982
- Physical Description
- xxvii, 229p. : ill., ports., facsim
- Subjects
- Immigration
- Women
- ISBN
- 0-7748-0149-2
- Accession Number
- 15500
- Call Number
- 08.2 F61
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- Archives Library
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Hard is the journey : stories of Chinese settlement in British Columbia's Kootenay
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26249
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2022
- Author
- Chow, Lily
- Publisher
- Qualicum Beach, BC : Caitlin Press
- Call Number
- 08.3 C46h
- Author
- Chow, Lily
- Publisher
- Qualicum Beach, BC : Caitlin Press
- Published Date
- 2022
- Physical Description
- 222 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Subjects
- Chinese
- Women
- Immigration
- Canada
- History
- British Columbia
- Abstract
- In Hard is the Journey, award-winning historian and researcher Lily Chow shares the difficult history of Chinese Canadians in the Kootenay. She unearths the racism of early newspapers that portrayed Chinese immigrants as dirty, sinister, and lethargic people not fit to live in BC and uncovers the history of the Chinese labourers who completed the deadly work of blazing the Dewdney Trail from Hope to Kootenay only to be dismissed, without any compensation, as soon as the project was completed. She also offers an intimate and inspiring look into the many ways Chinese immigrants survived, finding community, building resilience, and preserving their culture. Piecing together interviews with Kootenay residents and descendents of Chinese immigrants, government records and documents, and early newspaper articles, Chow bravely exposes dark parts of BC's history while shedding light on the struggles but also resilience and untold accomplishments of the Chinese immigrants who risked everything and often lost their lives in building the Canada we know today. Hard is the Journey is Chow's fourth book on the history of Chinese Canadians. -- Provided by publisher.
- Contents
- Introduction -- The Wild Horse Creek gold rush: Fisherville -- The key city: Cranbrook -- Once the Farwell town: Revelstoke -- The queen city: Nelson -- The golden city: Rossland -- Afterword.
- ISBN
- 9781773860749
- Accession Number
- P2024.02
- Call Number
- 08.3 C46h
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A hunter of peace : Mary T.S. Schaffer's Old Indian trails of the Canadian Rockies
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue21091
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1980
- Author
- Schaffer, Mary Townsend Sharples, 1861-1939
- Publisher
- Banff : Whyte Foundation
- Call Number
- TR140 S33 H37
- Responsibility
- introduced and edited by E.J. Hart
- Publisher
- Banff : Whyte Foundation
- Published Date
- 1980
- Physical Description
- 151p. : ill. (some col.), maps, ports. (some col.)
- Subjects
- Women photographers - Canada - Biography
- Rocky Mountains, Canada - Description and travel - 1900-1950
- Maligne Lake
- Schaffer, Mary Townsend Sharples, 1861-1939
- Notes
- Contents : Yahe-Weha-Mountain Woman : the life and travels of Mary Schaffer Warren, 1861-1939 / E.J. Hart -- Old Indian trails expedition of 1907 / Mary T.S. Schaffer -- Old Indian trails expedition of 1908 / Mary T.S. Schaffer -- The 1911 expedition to Maligne Lake / Mary T.S. Schaffer
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- TR140 S33 H37
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- Art Library is located in Curatorial Department - Please contact Curatorial Department for access
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