topic:"Women" found 15 records - Research Collections - Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies

Abstract: A spirited 1950s travelogue that takes the reader around the world during a time when two independent young women travelling alone was considered almost revolutionary. Renate Belczyk was born in Dresden, Germany, in 1932. When she was three years old her family moved to Berlin, where they settled into a small apartment building on the outskirts of the city. It was in this building that she met another adventurous girl, Sigrid, with whom she would travel around the world as young women after the Second World War. Having spent most of their childhood and teenage years climbing trees, swimming, cycling, hiking, and adventuring around Germany the two young women attended a talk by the German writer Heinrich Böll. During his presentation the renowned author suggested to the crowd that they all travel to different countries and make friends with the locals whenever they could, as this would help prevent another war. Renate and Sigrid took this advice to heart, and from that point their adventures together took flight. Starting in 1955 and travelling for three years to England, France, Spain, Portugal, Mexico, Canada, Japan, India, Nepal, Bhutan, Egypt, Turkey, Macedonia, and Greece, their adventures together culminated with their joint return to Germany in 1958. In 1959 Renate returned to the Canadian Rockies to work in the backcountry, and in 1960 she married mountaineer Felix Belczyk and settled in Castlegar, BC, where they raised three children. Our Trip Around the World is an endearing snapshot of the postwar era when adventure travel – mountaineering, hiking, hitchhiking, and cycling – was enticing those with adventurous spirits to experience the world like never before. (From publisher's website)

Contents: Cover -- Title Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Chapter 1: Early Years -- Chapter 2: Mexico, 1955-56 -- July 1955 -- September 1955 -- October 1955 -- November 1955 -- December 1955 -- January 1956 -- February 1956 -- March 1956 -- April 1956 -- May 1956 -- June-July 1956 -- Chapter 3: Canada, 1956-57 -- July 1956 -- August 1956 -- September 1956 -- Winter 1956-57 -- Spring 1957 -- May 1957 -- Chapter 4: Japan, 1957 -- May to October, 1957 -- June 1957 -- July 1957 -- Photo Section -- September 1957 -- October 1957 -- Chapter 5: India and Nepal, 1957-58 October 1957 -- November 1957 -- December 1957 -- January 1958 -- Chapter 6: Egypt, Turkey, Greece and Home, 1958 -- February 1958 -- March 1958 -- April 1958 -- May 1958 -- Afterword: A Life of Travel

ISBN: 9781771603775

Accession Number: P2020.07

Call Number: 02 B41o

Collection: Archives Library

URL Notes: Publisher's website

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https://rmbooks.com/book/our-trip-around-the-world/

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Queen of the maple leaf : beauty contests and settler femininity

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25718

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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Rare merit : women in photography in Canada, 1840-1940

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25534

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

Published Date: 2022

Author: Skidmore, Colleen

Publisher: Vancouver, British Columbia : UBC Press

Call Number: 08.1 Sk3r

Author: Skidmore, Colleen

Publisher: Vancouver, British Columbia : UBC Press

Published Date: 2022

Physical Description: 356 pages

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

Subjects: Photography; Women; History-Canada; Travel

Abstract: As Canada took shape in the nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, the camera was there throughout as both a witness to the colonialism, capitalism, and gendered and racialized social organization, and as a protagonist. And women across the country, whether residents or visitors, photographed people and places that were entirely new to the lens. Rare Merit examines how they did so, why their images look the way they do, and the meanings their work carries. Studio portraitists, travel documentarians, photojournalists, fine artists, hobbyists, and photographic printers make up the assembly, beginning with the arrival in Nova Scotia of North America’s first professional woman photographer, the American daguerreotypist Mrs. Fletcher. Colleen Skidmore surveys the professional lives and photographs of nearly eighty women who followed her, from Lucy Maude Montgomery on Prince Edward Island to Élise Livernois in Quebec City, and from Margaret Bourke-White in the Arctic to Hannah Maynard on Vancouver Island. Why women? Why not women? Presenting the exceptional range of their work, Rare Merit proves that women’s practices and images--knowingly omitted from founding narratives of photographic history--were diverse, compelling, widespread, and influential. Whenever and wherever women photographers lived, travelled, and worked, their impact undermined the status quo. -- Provided by publisher

Contents: The Daguerreans, 1841-61 ; The Livernois Studio, 1854-74 ; Notman's Printing Room, 1860-80 ; The Maynard Studio, 1862-1912 ; The Moodie Studio, 1895-1905 ; Travel, Photography, and Photojournalism, 1872-1940 ; Commercial Studio Photographers,1860-1940 ; Artists and Amateurs, 1890-1940

ISBN: 9780774867054

Accession Number: 2022.09

Call Number: 08.1 Sk3r

Location: Reading Room

Collection: Archives Library

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Uninvited : Canadian women artists in the modern moment

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25674

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

Published Date: 2021

Author: Milroy, Sarah

Publisher: Vancouver ; Berkeley : Figure.1

Call Number: 06.1 M64u

Author: Milroy, Sarah

Responsibility: McMichael Canadian Art Collection

Publisher: Vancouver ; Berkeley : Figure.1

Published Date: 2021

Physical Description: 317 pages : illustrations (some colour), portraits (some colour) ; 29 cm.

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

Subjects: Art; Canadian; Women

Abstract: A monument to the talent of Canadian women artists in the interwar period, Uninvited: Canadian Women Artists in the Modern Moment provides a full and diverse cross-country survey of the art made by women during this pivotal time, incorporating the work of both settler and Indigenous visual artists in a stirring affirmation of the female creative voice. -- Provided by publisher.

Contents: Director's foreword / Ian A.C. Dejardin -- Uninvited: Canadian women artists in the Modern Moment / Sarah Milroy -- The politics of invitation: Canadian women's art history and the settler-colonial context / Kristina Huneault -- Teachers, colleagues, and friends: Canadian men and women artists in the modern period / Katerina Atanassova and Jocelyn Anderson -- Anne Savage / Jocelyn Anderson, Anna Hudson -- Winifred Petchey Marsh / Maureen Matthews -- Attatsiaq / Christina Williamson -- Kathleen Munn / Georgiana Uhlyarik -- Yvonne McKague Housser / Sara Angel, Alicia Boutilier -- Elizabeth Katt Petrant / Alexandra Kahsenni:io Nahwegahbow, Christi Belcourt -- Bess Harris / Ian M. Thom -- Regina Seiden Goldberg / Alma Mikulinsky -- Vera Weatherbie / Michelle Jacques -- Emily Coonan / Anne-Marie Bouchard -- Suzanne Duquet / Anne-Marie Bouchard -- Lilias Torrance Newton / Shelley Adler, Gerta Moray -- Prudence Heward / Jacques Des Rochers, Tobi Bruce, Michelle Jacques -- Yulia Biriukova / Ian A.C. Dejardin -- Mary Wrinch / John Geoghegan -- Marion Long / Anna Hudson -- Frances Loring and Florence Wyle / Catharine Mastin, Luis Jacob -- Elizabeth Wyn Wood / Renée van der Avoird -- Margaret Watkins / Sarah Parsons -- Mrs. Walking Sun / Tanya Harnett -- Kathleen Daly Pepper / Gerald McMaster -- Annora Brown / Mary-Beth Laviolette -- Elizabeth Styring Nutt / Sarah Fillmore -- Bridget Anne Sack / Jordan Bennett and Melissa Peter-Paul -- Isabel McLaughlin / Tobi Bruce -- Pegi Nicol MacLeod / Georgiana Uhlyarik, Shary Boyle -- Marian Dale Scott / Alicia Boutilier, Gwendolyn Owens -- Paraskeva Clark / Jocelyn Anderson, Panya Clark Espinal -- Sewinchelwet (Sophie Frank) / Sesemiya (Tracy Williams) -- Emily Carr / Kristina Huneault, Jisgang Nika Collison -- Note -- List of works -- Figures -- Further reading -- Acknowledgements.

Notes: Catalogue of an exhibition held at the McMichael Canadian Art Collection from September 10, 2021 to January 16, 2022

ISBN: 9781773271194

Accession Number: P2021.01

Call Number: 06.1 M64u

Location: Reading Room

Collection: Archives Library

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