topic:"Women" found 6 records - Research Collections - Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies

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.

Contents: 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

Collection: Archives Library

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Films and film making - Women in motion pictures

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Medium: Library - Newsfile (Subject files)

Call Number: NEWSFILE

Medium: Library - Newsfile (Subject files)

Subjects: Motion picture; Films; Film making; Alberta; Canada; Women

Contents: This file contains newspaper clippings pertaining to the representation of women in film and film making in Canada. Notable articles in the file include a feature on Anne Wheeler, the director of the motion picture Loyalties (1986) as well as a feature on Anna May Wong who paved the way for Asian representation in film.

Call Number: NEWSFILE

Collection: Archives Library

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Hard is the journey : stories of Chinese settlement in British Columbia's Kootenay

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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

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

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

Collection: Archives Library

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Julia : a biography of Julia W. Henshaw

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 2018

Author: Kluckner, Michael

Publisher: [Vancouver, British Columbia] : Midtown Press

Call Number: 08.3 Kl66j

Author: Kluckner, Michael

Responsibility: Michael Kluckner

Publisher: [Vancouver, British Columbia] : Midtown Press

Published Date: 2018

Physical Description: 131 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 28 cm

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Henshaw, Julia W.; Women; Authors; Biography; Botany; World War, 1914-1918; Canada

Abstract: "A novelist, journalist, socialite, botanist, explorer, and World War I ambulance driver, Julia Henshaw was a unique and colourful personality. This graphic biography follows her extraordinary life from Montreal to Vancouver, from the Rocky Mountains to England, and from the mining towns of BC's Kootenays to the battlefields of France and Belgium. Her strongly expressed views of women's roles and voting rights, of racial and class issues, and of Canada's relationship to Great Britain and the USA are an illuminating contrast with the values of her contemporaries, and with society today."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents: Prelude; Mrs. Charles Henshaw; Julian Durham; Julia W. Henshaw; Gwen; Captain Julia Henshaw; "Gentle Julia"; Afterword; Key players; Supplementary notes; Bibliography; Index

Notes: Graphic novel with mention of Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies. Signed copy.

ISBN: 978-1-988242-20-0

Accession Number: p2019-25

Call Number: 08.3 Kl66j

Collection: Archives Library

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Pourin' down rain : a Black woman claims her place in the Canadian West

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Author: Foggo, Cheryl

Publisher: Edmonton, Alberta : Brush Education Inc.

Edition: 30th anniversary edition. Second edition.

Call Number: 08.1 F68p

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Author: Foggo, Cheryl

Responsibility: Cheryl Foggo

Edition: 30th anniversary edition. Second edition.

Publisher: Edmonton, Alberta : Brush Education Inc.

Physical Description: x, 118 pages : illustrations, portraits, facsimiles, genealogical table

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: History; History-Canada; Canada; Racism; Women

Abstract: First published in 1990, Pourin' Down Rain is a coming-of-age memoir about growing up in prairie communities with small Black populations. It thematizes the family, civil rights, and the learned art of Black Canadian storytelling. She drew much of the material from an unpublished manuscript called "The Story of My Father's Life," written by Daisy Smith Mayes Williams, Foggo's grandfather's sister. This manuscript remains in Foggo's personal archive. Pourin' Down Rain was a finalist for the Alberta Culture Non-Fiction Prize in 1990. A revised and updated 30th anniversary edition of Pourin' Down Rain is going to be released in 2020 by Brush Education and an audiobook is being released by ECW press as part of its Bespoke series of Canadian classics (From publisher's website)

ISBN: 9781550598339

Accession Number: P2020.07

Call Number: 08.1 F68p

Collection: Archives Library

URL Notes: Publisher's website

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Queen of the maple leaf : beauty contests and settler femininity

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 2020

Author: Gentile, Patrizia

Publisher: Vancouver, BC ; Toronto : UBC Press

Call Number: 08.1 G29q

Author: Gentile, Patrizia

Publisher: Vancouver, BC ; Toronto : UBC Press

Published Date: 2020

Physical Description: x, 280 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Feminism; Women; History; Beauty contests; Canada

Abstract: As modern versions of the settler nation took root in twentieth-century Canada, beauty became a business. But beauty pageants were more than just frivolous spectacles. Queen of the Maple Leaf deftly uncovers how colonial power operated within the pageant circuit. In this astute critical investigation, Patrizia Gentile examines the interplay between local or community-based pageants and more prestigious provincial or national ones. Contests such as Miss War Worker, Miss Black Ontario, and Miss Civil Service often functioned as stepping stones to competitions such as Miss Canada. At all levels, pageants exemplified codes of femininity, class, sexuality, and race that shaped the narratives of the settler nation. A union-organized pageant such as Queen of the Dressmakers, for example, might uplift working-class women but immigrant women need not apply. Not unlike sports leagues linked from minor to major, pageants from local to national formed a network that entrenched white settler nationalism in the context of the beauty industrial complex. Queen of the Maple Leaf demonstrates that these contests are designed to connect female bodies to white, middle-class, respectable femininity and wholesomeness, and that their longevity lies squarely in their capacity to reassert the white heteropatriarchy at the heart of settler societies. -- Provided by publisher.

Contents: Beauty Queens and (White) Settler Nationalism -- Miss Canada and Gendering Whiteness -- Labour of Beauty -- Contesting Indigenous, Immigrant, and Black Bodies -- Miss Canada, Commercialization, and Settler Anxiety.

ISBN: 9780774864121

Accession Number: P2023.11

Call Number: 08.1 G29q

Collection: Archives Library

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