Minds of Our Own
Inventing Feminist Scholarship and Women's Studies in Canada and Québec, 1966-76
Herausgeber: Robbins, Wendy; Descarries, Francine; Eichler, Margrit; Luxton, Meg
Minds of Our Own
Inventing Feminist Scholarship and Women's Studies in Canada and Québec, 1966-76
Herausgeber: Robbins, Wendy; Descarries, Francine; Eichler, Margrit; Luxton, Meg
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This book of personal essays by over forty women and men who founded women's studies in Canada and Québec 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…mehr
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- Verlag: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
- Seitenzahl: 414
- Erscheinungstermin: 30. Mai 2008
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 226mm x 152mm x 25mm
- Gewicht: 612g
- ISBN-13: 9781554580378
- ISBN-10: 1554580374
- Artikelnr.: 27013572
- Verlag: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
- Seitenzahl: 414
- Erscheinungstermin: 30. Mai 2008
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 226mm x 152mm x 25mm
- Gewicht: 612g
- ISBN-13: 9781554580378
- ISBN-10: 1554580374
- Artikelnr.: 27013572
Minds of Our Own: Inventing Feminist Scholarship and Women's Studies in
Canada and Québec, 1966-76, edited by Wendy Robbins, Meg Luxton, Margrit
Eichler, and Francine Descarries
PREFACE
CHANGING TIMES
Women's Organizations (before 1960)
Women's Changing Social Position
The Women's Movement of the 1960s and 1970s
Women in Post-Secondary Education
Feminist Scholarship and Women's Studies
ESSAYS
Creating a Tradition of Canadian Women Writers and Feminist Literary
Criticism Clara Thomas
Mother Was Not a Person, So I Became a Feminist Marguerite Andersen
Fanning Fires: Women's Studies in a School of Social Work Helen Levine
with Faith Schneider
Feminism: A Critical 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 Verthuy
Moments in the Making of a Feminist Historian Alison Prentice
Doing Feminist Studies without Knowing It Micheline Dumont
A Matrix of Creativity Frieda Forman
Transforming the Academy and the World Deborah Gorham
Reminiscences of a Male Supporter of the Movement towards Women's
Liberation Leslie Marshall
You Just Had To Be There Greta Hofmann Nemiroff
The Second Wave: A Personal Voyage Sandra Pyke
A Lifetime of Struggling to Belong Vanaja Dhruvarajan
Once Upon a Time There Was the Feminist Movement Nadia Fahmy-Eid
Women's Studies at the University of Alberta Rosalind Sydie, Patricia
Prestwich, 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, 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 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 Smyth
The Saga Marylee Stephenson
Coming of 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 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
PERSONAL AND INTELLECTUAL REVOLUTION: SOME REFLECTIONS
The Patriarchal Context
Countervailing Social Movements
Intersections of Gender, Race, Class, Sexual Orientation
Inventing a New Scholarship and New Structures
Disciplinarity and/or Interdisciplinarity
Student-Teacher Relations
Personal Impacts
Interesting Times
APPENDIXES
Appendix A. Alphabetical List of Authors
Appendix B. List of Authors by Discipline
NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS
CUMULATIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX
Notes on Contributors
Marguerite Anderson has lived and taught in Germany, France, Tunisia,
Ethiopia, the United States, and Canada. She obtained a PhD from the
Université de Montréal in 1965. In Canada, she taught French studies at
Loyola (now Concordia) and the University of Guelph, where she was chair of
the Department of Languages and Literatures. She has held the Nancy Ruth
Chair at Mount Saint Vincent University and received a doctorate, H.C.,
from that university in 1999. She was a founding member of the Canadian
Association of University Teachers Committee on the Status of Women in the
early 1970s.
Kay Armatage is a professor at the University of Toronto, cross-appointed
to Cinema Studies, Innis College, and the Women and Gender Studies
Institute. She is the author of The Girl from God's Country: Nell Shipman
and the Silent Cinema (2003), co-editor of Gendering the Nation: Canadian
Women's Cinema (1999), and editor of Equity and How to Get It (1999);
author of articles on women filmmakers, feminist theory and Canadian
cinema; and producer/director of documentary and experimental narrative
films. At U of T, she was director of the Undergraduate Women's Studies
Program 1987-92 and founding director of the Graduate Collaborative Program
in Women's Studies 1994-2000.
Pat Armstrong has served as chair of the Department of Sociology at York
University and director of the School of Canadian Studies at Carleton
University. Currently, she is a partner in the National Network on
Environments and Women's Health, and she chairs a working group on health
reform that crosses the Centres of Excellence for Women's Health. She holds
a Canadian Health Services Research Foundation/Canadian Institutes of
Health Research Chair in Health Services. She is co-author or editor of
several books on health care, including Exposing Privatization: Women and
Health Reform in Canada (2001), Heal Thyself: Managing Health Care Reform
(2000), and Universal Health Care: What the United States Can Learn from
Canada (1998).
Maureen Baker is a professor in the Department of Sociology at the
University of Auckland, New Zealand. She has taught in Canada, Australia,
and New Zealand, and worked as a researcher in Ottawa for Canada's
Parliament. Her main areas of teaching and research are changing families
and comparative policies for families with children. She is the author of
fifteen books and over ninety scholarly articles.
Marie-Andrée Bertrand received her D. Criminology from the University of
California at Berkeley (1967) and is currently professor emeritus at the
Université de Montréal (1996). She has taught and conducted research at the
universities of Hamburg, Oslo, and Berkeley; at the Centre d'études
sociologiques sur le droit et les institutions pénales in Guyancourt,
France; and at the International Institute for the Sociology of Law in
Onati, Spain. She was a member of the Law Commission of Canada Advisory
Council until its abolition on September 29, 2006, and is an officier de
l'Ordre national du Québec.
Linda Briskin, a professor in the Social Science Division and the School of
Women's Studies at York University, has both an activist and a scholarly
interest in the documentation and development of feminist strategies for
change. She has published widely on women and unions, women's organizing,
and inclusive pedagogies, and has been involved in union and university
activism for many decades.
Professor emeritus at the Université du Québec à Montréal, Anita Caron
retired from the Department of Religious Sciences in June 1993. Her main
areas of teaching and research were feminist studies, moral and religious
education, ethics, and teacher training.Much of her research concerned the
question of women and religion. Co-founder of the Institut de recherches et
d'études féministes, she was also its first director, from 1990 to 1993.
Linda Christiansen-Ruffman is professor of sociology at Saint Mary's
University, where she helped to initiate women's studies, including the
interuniversity graduate program. As a feminist, she has led both sociology
and women's organizations locally, nationally, and globally. She
increasingly trusts women's wisdom to resist patriarchal forms and to find
alternative ways.
Jill Ker Conway taught American social and intellectual history at the
University of Toronto (1964-75) and served as vice-president of Internal
Affairs (1973-75) the first woman to hold vice-presidential rank. In 1975,
she became the first woman president of Smith College, and, a decade later,
visiting professor in mit's Program in Science, Technology, and Society.
She holds thirty-eight honorary degrees and currently writes about
autobiography and biography. She retains ties to Canada through her late
husband, John J. Conway, the founding master of Founders College at York
University, and as the 2007 recipient of the Sarah Shorten Award from the
Canadian Association of University Teachers.
Terry Crowley is chair of the Department of History at the University of
Guelph. The author of a dozen books, his most recent, Marriage of Minds:
Isabel and Oscar Skelton Reinventing Canada (2003), won the Floyd S.
Chalmers Award of the Champlain Society, the Clio Award, and an Honorable
Mention for the Sir John A. Macdonald Award of the Canadian Historical
Association.
Dallas Cullen has a BA in history from the University of Alberta, an MSc in
psychology from Iowa State University, and a PhD in experimental social
psychology from Ohio State University. She is Professor Emerita in the
Department of Strategic Management and Organization in the School of
Business at the University of Alberta, where she also served an eight-year
term as chair of the Women's Studies Program. She was a founding member of
Women in Scholarship, Engineering, Science, and Technology (wisest), and
was awarded a lifetime membership in the Academic Women's Association of
the University of Alberta.
Natalie Zemon Davis has been an innovator in the social and cultural
history of early modern Europe, especially its working people and peasants.
Over her years of teaching, she has been a founder of courses in the
history of women at the University of Toronto, the University of California
at Berkeley, and Princeton University. She is the author of eight books,
all of them appearing in translations in Europe and Asia. In 1987 she
became the second woman president of the American Historical Association
(the only previous one was forty-four years earlier). Retired as Henry
Charles Lea Professor of History at Princeton, she is now adjunct professor
of history and professor of medieval studies at the University of Toronto.
Francine Descarries is a professor in the Department of Sociology at
l'Université du Québec à Montréal and scientific director of the alliance
Institute de recherches et d'études féministes/Relais-femmes, which does
research on the Québec women's movement. In the early 1980s, she authored
one of the first Québec books on women and "pink collar" work, L'école rose
et les cols roses (1980). Jointly with Christine Corbeil, she published a
reader on maternity entitled Espaces et temps de la maternité (2002). She
has also recently edited volume 6 of the electronic journal Labrys
(Québec-Brazil), which gives a picture of the research in partnership
currently being done in Québec.
Vanaja Dhruvarajan is currently an adjunct professor at Carleton
University, Ottawa. She completed her undergraduate education at the
University of Mysore, India, and her graduate education at the University
of Chicago.Her teaching and research interests include globalization,
family and socialization, gender, anti-racism, and knowledge monopolies.
She has done research in India and Canada, and has published several
articles and books. She has served as president of the Canadian Sociology
and Anthropology Association and the Canadian Women's Studies Association,
as well as the Ruth Wynn Woodward Endowed Chair in Women's Studies at Simon
Fraser University, Vancouver.
Micheline Dumont is a pioneer of women's history in Québec, having taught
in that area at the Université de Sherbrooke from 1970 to 1999. As a member
of the Clio Collective, she published L'histoire des femmes au Québec
(1982) and Québec Women: A History (Women's Press, 1987). She is the author
of many works, including Les couventines (1986) with Nadia Fahmy-Eid; Les
religieuses sont-elles féministes? (1995); Découvrir la mémoire des femmes
(2001); La pensée féministe au Québec (2003) with Louise Toupin; and Brève
histoire des institutrices au Québec (2004) with Andrée Dufour.
Margrit Eichler is professor of sociology and equity studies at the Ontario
Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto. All of her
research is feminist in orientation. Over her career, her major areas of
interest have been family policy, reproductive technologies, sexist and
other biases in research, eco-sociology, and the history of women's studies
in Canada. At present, she is engaged in two large-scale research projects:
on unpaid housework and lifelong learning, and on the bias free Framework
(Building an Integrative Analytical System for Recognizing and Eliminating
InEquities in Research and Policies).
Nadia Fahmy-Eid began her career as a professor of history at the
Université du Québec à Montréal in 1970. She retired in 1997. Recipient of
the Société Saint Jean-Baptiste's Prix Esdras-Minville for human sciences,
she taught and researched in the history of ideas, the history of the
education of girls and women's work, and the epistemology of history. In
2001, she and colleagues from various disciplines founded the Centre d'aide
pédagogique aux étudiantes et aux étudiants as a means to support students
in the methodology of intellectual work.
Frieda Johles Forman was born in Vienna and spent her early childhood as a
refugee in Switzerland.At City College and City University of New York, she
specialized in philosophy and German literature. She married, had two
children, and was active in the anti-war movement before immigrating to
Toronto in 1970. She introduced the first women's studies course while
teaching at the Ontario College of Art, and subsequently established and
coordinated the Women's Educational Resources Centre at the Ontario
Institute for Studies in Education. She is currently a visiting scholar at
the Centre for Women's Studies in Education, and writing a memoir of her
childhood.
Margaret Gillett, a lifelong feminist, is retired now from teaching in the
Faculty of Education at McGill, but never from the fray. She was involved
in the creation of the McGill Centre for Teaching and Research on Women.
Her portrait was painted by distinguished Australian artist Judy Cassab.
Recent work includes Traf: A History of Trafalgar Schools for Girls (2000)
and a profile on Maude Elizabeth Seymour Abbott for the Dictionary of
Canadian Biography.
Deborah Gorham was a full-time member of the Department of History at
Carleton University in Ottawa from 1969 to 2002,where she was active in
teaching women's history and women's studies beginning in 1971. In
retirement, she continues her affiliation with Carleton as a distinguished
research professor. Her current research interests include gender and
progressive education in the early twentieth century. She is the author of
Vera Brittain: A Feminist Life (1996).
Danielle Juteau received her PhD in sociology from the University of
Toronto in 1974 and is currently professor emeritus in the Department of
Sociology at the Université de Montréal. She was a pioneer of teaching and
research on the rapports sociaux de sexe (relations constituting sex
categories), which she has expanded to apply to ethnic relations, the
construction of ethnic and national boundaries, and citizenship. Ethnic
Relations Chair at the Université de Montréal from 1991 to 2003, she went
on to become a Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation Fellow from 2003 to 2006.
Named to the Royal Society of Canada in 1996, she was the winner, in 2001,
of the Prix Marcel-Vincent, awarded by the Association canadienne-française
pour l'avancement des sciences.
Meredith M. Kimball taught in the Department of Psychology at the
University of British Columbia from 1970 to 1976.During that time, she was
a founder of women's studies at ubc. In 1976, she moved to Simon Fraser
University in a joint appointment with women's studies and psychology. She
has served as chair of the Department of Women's Studies at SFU several
times and as associate dean in the Faculty of Interdisciplinary Studies.
She retired from SFU in 2004.
Annette Kolodny is the College of Humanities Professor Emerita of American
Literature and Culture at the University of Arizona, Tucson. Her scholarly
and critical works include The Lay of the Land: Metaphor as Experience and
History in American Life and Letters (1975); The Land Before Her: Fantasy
and Experience of the American Frontiers, 1630-1860 (1984); and the
groundbreaking essay "Dancing Through the Minefield: Some Observations on
the Theory, Practice, and Politics of a Feminist Literary Criticism." She
was formerly dean of the College of Humanities at the University of Arizona
and, based on her experiences as a feminist administrator, she published
Failing the Future: A Dean Looks at Higher Education in the Twenty-first
Century (1998).
Andrea Lebowitz joined Simon Fraser University as a charter faculty member
in 1965. She was a founder of the Department of Women's Studies and served
as its first chair. She taught in English and women's studies, and served
as associate dean of arts. She retired from SFU in 2001. She has published
several books on women's nature writing.
Helen Levine is a pioneer of feminist counselling and taught women's
studies at Carleton University's School of Social Work until her retirement
in 1988. Helen received the Governor General's Persons Award in 1989. She
is a founding member of Interval House of Ottawa-Carleton, a shelter for
battered women and their children; and of the Crones, a self-help group for
older women. She is a member of the Women's Envisioning Group in Ottawa,
concerned with local and global feminist issues. She was a major
participant in the film Motherland: Tales of Wonder, produced by the
National Film Board's Studio D.
Meg Luxton is professor of women's studies and social sciences and director
of the graduate program in women's studies at York University. Her main
research interests are women's paid and unpaid work, the Canadian women's
movement, and family and social policy. Her current research project
investigates how personal caregiving responsibilities and social policies
and programs designed to help people manage the demands of paid employment
play out in the lives of the people affected by them.
Lorna Marsden is president emerita and professor,York University. Prior to
joining York in 1997, she was on faculty at the University of Toronto
(1972-92), president and vice-chancellor of Wilfrid Laurier University
(1992-97), and a senator in the Parliament of Canada (1982-92). She was
president of the National Action Committee on the Status of Women during
1975-77.
Leslie Marshall taught for many years in the Department of English at the
University of Guelph. His main interest was dramatic literature. In 1974,
he introduced the first course at Guelph on women's literature. With his
wife, Linda, he is now living in retirement in Guelph.
Joan McFarland is a professor of economics and women's studies/gender
studies at St. Thomas University in Fredericton, New Brunswick, where she
has taught since 1971. Her research, which takes a feminist political
economy approach, has been on various aspects of women and the economy in
the Maritimes, in Canada, and across the globe. She is also a community
activist and was the national president of the Canadian Congress for
Learning Opportunities for Women in the late 1980s.
Greta Hofmann Nemiroff taught at Concordia University (formerly Sir George
Williams University) from 1963-79, in the Department of English and as a
founding member of the Women's Studies Program and the Simone de Beauvoir
Institute. Since 1973, she has taught at Dawson College, where she is
currently the coordinator of the Creative Arts, Literature and Language,
and Women's Studies programs. From 1991-96, she held the joint chair
ofWomen's Studies at Carleton University and the University of Ottawa, and
from 1999-2004 she was the president of the Sisterhood Is Global Institute,
an international feminist non-governmental organization.
Honoree Newcombe joined the Simon Fraser University library staff in 1971
while still a student. She has worked in graduate studies and as
departmental administrator in the English department. She was a founder of
the Department ofWomen's Studies and has served as the staff representative
on the Women's Studies Coordinating Committee.
Christine Overall is a professor of philosophy at Queen's University,
Kingston, where she served as an associate dean in the Faculty of Arts and
Science (1997-2005). In 1998, she was elected to the Royal Society of
Canada, and in 2005, she was appointed to a Queen's Research Chair, Queen's
internal equivalent of the Canada Research Chairs. During 1993-2006, she
authored a weekly feminist column,"In Other Words," in the Kingston
Whig-Standard. Her 2003 book, Aging, Death, and Human Longevity, won awards
from the Canadian Philosophical Association and the Royal Society of
Canada. Married for thirty-five years, she is the mother of two adult
children.
Alison Prentice taught at two secondary schools in Toronto, and at Atkinson
College, York University, and the Ontario Institute for Studies in
Education. Her publications range over the history of education and women's
history, with special attention to women's work in education. She is
currently an adjunct professor at the University of Victoria, attends a
Quaker meeting, and tries to juggle continuing family and household work
with choral singing, yoga, and belonging to various groups devoted to
discussions of history, books, and dreams, and the creation of an
intentional community.
Patricia Prestwich was born in Toronto and completed her undergraduate and
master's degrees at the University of Toronto. She received her PhD in
modern French history from Stanford University in 1973. From 1970 to 2007,
she taught courses in modern French history,women's history, and medical
history at the University of Alberta, where she is now a professor emerita.
She helped to found the Women's Studies Program at the University of
Alberta and was its chair for three years. She was also president of the
Academic Women's Association and in 2006 was very touched to be made a
lifetime member of that organization.
Sandra Pyke (PhD, McGill, 1964) spent most of her academic life at York
University where she is currently a professor emerita. Very active in the
Canadian Psychological Association, she served many years as a member of
the board of directors and was president of the association in 1982, as
well as a member of the Task Force on the Status of Women in Canadian
Psychology and the first coordinator of the Section on Women and
Psychology. At York, she held a series of administrative positions,
including director of the Graduate Program in Women's Studies, chair of the
Department of Psychology, and dean of the Faculty of Graduate Studies.
Ceta Ramkhalawansingh, who immigrated from Trinidad with her family in
1967, is a co-founder of women's studies at the University of Toronto,
where, in 1970, she and others formed a teaching collective.Her
contributions to feminist scholarship include joining the writing
collective of Women at Work in Ontario, 1850-1930 (winner of the 1975 City
of Toronto Book Award) and serving as guest editor of various feminist
journals. Appointed in 1983 to the Ontario government's Advisory Council on
Women's Issues, she was a formidable advocate for legislative change. Since
1981, Ceta has been introducing leading-edge policies on equity and human
rights at Toronto City Hall.
Wendy Robbins taught at the University of Guelph and Brown University
before moving to the University of New Brunswick, becoming UNB's first
female full professor of English in 1988 and co-founding its Women's
Studies Program. She is co-founder of the par-l feminist discussion list
and has served as chair of the Women's Committee of the Canadian
Association of University Teachers and vice-president of Women's and Equity
Issues for the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences.
She is a mother of two and a grandmother of one, and in 2007 she received a
Governor General's Award in Commemoration of the Persons Case.
Susan Sherwin is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and a university
research professor at Dalhousie University, where she has taught since
1974. Her principal appointment is in philosophy, with honorary
cross-appointments to gender and women's studies, bioethics, and nursing.
Her academic training was at York University (Hons BA) and Stanford
University (PhD). Her principal area of research and teaching is feminist
health-care ethics.
In 1955, Dorothy E. Smith graduated from London University (BSc in
Sociology), got married, and, with her husband, entered the University of
California at Berkeley). They had two children, a divorce, and a doctorate
apiece.Moving to Canada with her children in 1968, she soon started writing
papers proposing an alternative feminist sociology. These have been
published in The Everyday World as Problematic (1987) and elsewhere. Since
retirement in 1996, she has continued to write. The first book that she had
time to conceive and write as a whole, rather than assemble from various
papers, is Institutional Ethnography: A Sociology for People (2005).
Donna E. Smyth is a poet, short-story writer, playwright, and novelist.
While teaching English and creative writing at Acadia University, she was
the founding editor of the women's studies journal Atlantis. She has
published two novels-Quilt (1982) and Subversive Elements (1986)-as well as
a novel for children, Loyalist Runaway (1991), and two plays on the poet
Elizabeth Bishop, Running to Paradise (1999) and Sole Survivors (2003). She
is co-author of No Place like Home: Diaries and Letters of Nova Scotian
Women, 1771-1938 (1988). Her latest work, Among the Saints (2003), is a
collection of Maritime-based short stories.
Marylee Stephenson lives in Vancouver, in an innovative "co-housing"
complex. She has her own firm for doing social policy research and program
evaluation. She also has a parallel business drawing on her experience as
an amateur naturalist, nature writer, and photographer.Marylee has wended
her way through academia, and the private sector, and now is working on
developing ways to "age gracefully" while still doing research projects,
leading tours to the Galapagos Islands (as the author of a guidebook for
the islands and travel in Ecuador), appearing as a stand-up comic in clubs
and at conferences, visiting the grandnieces and -nephews, and walking her
dog.
With a PhD from the University of Alberta, Rosalind Sydie was appointed
assistant professor at the University of Waterloo. She returned to the
University of Alberta in 1969 as a sessional instructor, becoming an
assistant professor in 1974. She became the first f
Minds of Our Own: Inventing Feminist Scholarship and Women's Studies in
Canada and Québec, 1966-76, edited by Wendy Robbins, Meg Luxton, Margrit
Eichler, and Francine Descarries
PREFACE
CHANGING TIMES
Women's Organizations (before 1960)
Women's Changing Social Position
The Women's Movement of the 1960s and 1970s
Women in Post-Secondary Education
Feminist Scholarship and Women's Studies
ESSAYS
Creating a Tradition of Canadian Women Writers and Feminist Literary
Criticism Clara Thomas
Mother Was Not a Person, So I Became a Feminist Marguerite Andersen
Fanning Fires: Women's Studies in a School of Social Work Helen Levine
with Faith Schneider
Feminism: A Critical 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 Verthuy
Moments in the Making of a Feminist Historian Alison Prentice
Doing Feminist Studies without Knowing It Micheline Dumont
A Matrix of Creativity Frieda Forman
Transforming the Academy and the World Deborah Gorham
Reminiscences of a Male Supporter of the Movement towards Women's
Liberation Leslie Marshall
You Just Had To Be There Greta Hofmann Nemiroff
The Second Wave: A Personal Voyage Sandra Pyke
A Lifetime of Struggling to Belong Vanaja Dhruvarajan
Once Upon a Time There Was the Feminist Movement Nadia Fahmy-Eid
Women's Studies at the University of Alberta Rosalind Sydie, Patricia
Prestwich, 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, 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 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 Smyth
The Saga Marylee Stephenson
Coming of 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 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
PERSONAL AND INTELLECTUAL REVOLUTION: SOME REFLECTIONS
The Patriarchal Context
Countervailing Social Movements
Intersections of Gender, Race, Class, Sexual Orientation
Inventing a New Scholarship and New Structures
Disciplinarity and/or Interdisciplinarity
Student-Teacher Relations
Personal Impacts
Interesting Times
APPENDIXES
Appendix A. Alphabetical List of Authors
Appendix B. List of Authors by Discipline
NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS
CUMULATIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX
Notes on Contributors
Marguerite Anderson has lived and taught in Germany, France, Tunisia,
Ethiopia, the United States, and Canada. She obtained a PhD from the
Université de Montréal in 1965. In Canada, she taught French studies at
Loyola (now Concordia) and the University of Guelph, where she was chair of
the Department of Languages and Literatures. She has held the Nancy Ruth
Chair at Mount Saint Vincent University and received a doctorate, H.C.,
from that university in 1999. She was a founding member of the Canadian
Association of University Teachers Committee on the Status of Women in the
early 1970s.
Kay Armatage is a professor at the University of Toronto, cross-appointed
to Cinema Studies, Innis College, and the Women and Gender Studies
Institute. She is the author of The Girl from God's Country: Nell Shipman
and the Silent Cinema (2003), co-editor of Gendering the Nation: Canadian
Women's Cinema (1999), and editor of Equity and How to Get It (1999);
author of articles on women filmmakers, feminist theory and Canadian
cinema; and producer/director of documentary and experimental narrative
films. At U of T, she was director of the Undergraduate Women's Studies
Program 1987-92 and founding director of the Graduate Collaborative Program
in Women's Studies 1994-2000.
Pat Armstrong has served as chair of the Department of Sociology at York
University and director of the School of Canadian Studies at Carleton
University. Currently, she is a partner in the National Network on
Environments and Women's Health, and she chairs a working group on health
reform that crosses the Centres of Excellence for Women's Health. She holds
a Canadian Health Services Research Foundation/Canadian Institutes of
Health Research Chair in Health Services. She is co-author or editor of
several books on health care, including Exposing Privatization: Women and
Health Reform in Canada (2001), Heal Thyself: Managing Health Care Reform
(2000), and Universal Health Care: What the United States Can Learn from
Canada (1998).
Maureen Baker is a professor in the Department of Sociology at the
University of Auckland, New Zealand. She has taught in Canada, Australia,
and New Zealand, and worked as a researcher in Ottawa for Canada's
Parliament. Her main areas of teaching and research are changing families
and comparative policies for families with children. She is the author of
fifteen books and over ninety scholarly articles.
Marie-Andrée Bertrand received her D. Criminology from the University of
California at Berkeley (1967) and is currently professor emeritus at the
Université de Montréal (1996). She has taught and conducted research at the
universities of Hamburg, Oslo, and Berkeley; at the Centre d'études
sociologiques sur le droit et les institutions pénales in Guyancourt,
France; and at the International Institute for the Sociology of Law in
Onati, Spain. She was a member of the Law Commission of Canada Advisory
Council until its abolition on September 29, 2006, and is an officier de
l'Ordre national du Québec.
Linda Briskin, a professor in the Social Science Division and the School of
Women's Studies at York University, has both an activist and a scholarly
interest in the documentation and development of feminist strategies for
change. She has published widely on women and unions, women's organizing,
and inclusive pedagogies, and has been involved in union and university
activism for many decades.
Professor emeritus at the Université du Québec à Montréal, Anita Caron
retired from the Department of Religious Sciences in June 1993. Her main
areas of teaching and research were feminist studies, moral and religious
education, ethics, and teacher training.Much of her research concerned the
question of women and religion. Co-founder of the Institut de recherches et
d'études féministes, she was also its first director, from 1990 to 1993.
Linda Christiansen-Ruffman is professor of sociology at Saint Mary's
University, where she helped to initiate women's studies, including the
interuniversity graduate program. As a feminist, she has led both sociology
and women's organizations locally, nationally, and globally. She
increasingly trusts women's wisdom to resist patriarchal forms and to find
alternative ways.
Jill Ker Conway taught American social and intellectual history at the
University of Toronto (1964-75) and served as vice-president of Internal
Affairs (1973-75) the first woman to hold vice-presidential rank. In 1975,
she became the first woman president of Smith College, and, a decade later,
visiting professor in mit's Program in Science, Technology, and Society.
She holds thirty-eight honorary degrees and currently writes about
autobiography and biography. She retains ties to Canada through her late
husband, John J. Conway, the founding master of Founders College at York
University, and as the 2007 recipient of the Sarah Shorten Award from the
Canadian Association of University Teachers.
Terry Crowley is chair of the Department of History at the University of
Guelph. The author of a dozen books, his most recent, Marriage of Minds:
Isabel and Oscar Skelton Reinventing Canada (2003), won the Floyd S.
Chalmers Award of the Champlain Society, the Clio Award, and an Honorable
Mention for the Sir John A. Macdonald Award of the Canadian Historical
Association.
Dallas Cullen has a BA in history from the University of Alberta, an MSc in
psychology from Iowa State University, and a PhD in experimental social
psychology from Ohio State University. She is Professor Emerita in the
Department of Strategic Management and Organization in the School of
Business at the University of Alberta, where she also served an eight-year
term as chair of the Women's Studies Program. She was a founding member of
Women in Scholarship, Engineering, Science, and Technology (wisest), and
was awarded a lifetime membership in the Academic Women's Association of
the University of Alberta.
Natalie Zemon Davis has been an innovator in the social and cultural
history of early modern Europe, especially its working people and peasants.
Over her years of teaching, she has been a founder of courses in the
history of women at the University of Toronto, the University of California
at Berkeley, and Princeton University. She is the author of eight books,
all of them appearing in translations in Europe and Asia. In 1987 she
became the second woman president of the American Historical Association
(the only previous one was forty-four years earlier). Retired as Henry
Charles Lea Professor of History at Princeton, she is now adjunct professor
of history and professor of medieval studies at the University of Toronto.
Francine Descarries is a professor in the Department of Sociology at
l'Université du Québec à Montréal and scientific director of the alliance
Institute de recherches et d'études féministes/Relais-femmes, which does
research on the Québec women's movement. In the early 1980s, she authored
one of the first Québec books on women and "pink collar" work, L'école rose
et les cols roses (1980). Jointly with Christine Corbeil, she published a
reader on maternity entitled Espaces et temps de la maternité (2002). She
has also recently edited volume 6 of the electronic journal Labrys
(Québec-Brazil), which gives a picture of the research in partnership
currently being done in Québec.
Vanaja Dhruvarajan is currently an adjunct professor at Carleton
University, Ottawa. She completed her undergraduate education at the
University of Mysore, India, and her graduate education at the University
of Chicago.Her teaching and research interests include globalization,
family and socialization, gender, anti-racism, and knowledge monopolies.
She has done research in India and Canada, and has published several
articles and books. She has served as president of the Canadian Sociology
and Anthropology Association and the Canadian Women's Studies Association,
as well as the Ruth Wynn Woodward Endowed Chair in Women's Studies at Simon
Fraser University, Vancouver.
Micheline Dumont is a pioneer of women's history in Québec, having taught
in that area at the Université de Sherbrooke from 1970 to 1999. As a member
of the Clio Collective, she published L'histoire des femmes au Québec
(1982) and Québec Women: A History (Women's Press, 1987). She is the author
of many works, including Les couventines (1986) with Nadia Fahmy-Eid; Les
religieuses sont-elles féministes? (1995); Découvrir la mémoire des femmes
(2001); La pensée féministe au Québec (2003) with Louise Toupin; and Brève
histoire des institutrices au Québec (2004) with Andrée Dufour.
Margrit Eichler is professor of sociology and equity studies at the Ontario
Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto. All of her
research is feminist in orientation. Over her career, her major areas of
interest have been family policy, reproductive technologies, sexist and
other biases in research, eco-sociology, and the history of women's studies
in Canada. At present, she is engaged in two large-scale research projects:
on unpaid housework and lifelong learning, and on the bias free Framework
(Building an Integrative Analytical System for Recognizing and Eliminating
InEquities in Research and Policies).
Nadia Fahmy-Eid began her career as a professor of history at the
Université du Québec à Montréal in 1970. She retired in 1997. Recipient of
the Société Saint Jean-Baptiste's Prix Esdras-Minville for human sciences,
she taught and researched in the history of ideas, the history of the
education of girls and women's work, and the epistemology of history. In
2001, she and colleagues from various disciplines founded the Centre d'aide
pédagogique aux étudiantes et aux étudiants as a means to support students
in the methodology of intellectual work.
Frieda Johles Forman was born in Vienna and spent her early childhood as a
refugee in Switzerland.At City College and City University of New York, she
specialized in philosophy and German literature. She married, had two
children, and was active in the anti-war movement before immigrating to
Toronto in 1970. She introduced the first women's studies course while
teaching at the Ontario College of Art, and subsequently established and
coordinated the Women's Educational Resources Centre at the Ontario
Institute for Studies in Education. She is currently a visiting scholar at
the Centre for Women's Studies in Education, and writing a memoir of her
childhood.
Margaret Gillett, a lifelong feminist, is retired now from teaching in the
Faculty of Education at McGill, but never from the fray. She was involved
in the creation of the McGill Centre for Teaching and Research on Women.
Her portrait was painted by distinguished Australian artist Judy Cassab.
Recent work includes Traf: A History of Trafalgar Schools for Girls (2000)
and a profile on Maude Elizabeth Seymour Abbott for the Dictionary of
Canadian Biography.
Deborah Gorham was a full-time member of the Department of History at
Carleton University in Ottawa from 1969 to 2002,where she was active in
teaching women's history and women's studies beginning in 1971. In
retirement, she continues her affiliation with Carleton as a distinguished
research professor. Her current research interests include gender and
progressive education in the early twentieth century. She is the author of
Vera Brittain: A Feminist Life (1996).
Danielle Juteau received her PhD in sociology from the University of
Toronto in 1974 and is currently professor emeritus in the Department of
Sociology at the Université de Montréal. She was a pioneer of teaching and
research on the rapports sociaux de sexe (relations constituting sex
categories), which she has expanded to apply to ethnic relations, the
construction of ethnic and national boundaries, and citizenship. Ethnic
Relations Chair at the Université de Montréal from 1991 to 2003, she went
on to become a Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation Fellow from 2003 to 2006.
Named to the Royal Society of Canada in 1996, she was the winner, in 2001,
of the Prix Marcel-Vincent, awarded by the Association canadienne-française
pour l'avancement des sciences.
Meredith M. Kimball taught in the Department of Psychology at the
University of British Columbia from 1970 to 1976.During that time, she was
a founder of women's studies at ubc. In 1976, she moved to Simon Fraser
University in a joint appointment with women's studies and psychology. She
has served as chair of the Department of Women's Studies at SFU several
times and as associate dean in the Faculty of Interdisciplinary Studies.
She retired from SFU in 2004.
Annette Kolodny is the College of Humanities Professor Emerita of American
Literature and Culture at the University of Arizona, Tucson. Her scholarly
and critical works include The Lay of the Land: Metaphor as Experience and
History in American Life and Letters (1975); The Land Before Her: Fantasy
and Experience of the American Frontiers, 1630-1860 (1984); and the
groundbreaking essay "Dancing Through the Minefield: Some Observations on
the Theory, Practice, and Politics of a Feminist Literary Criticism." She
was formerly dean of the College of Humanities at the University of Arizona
and, based on her experiences as a feminist administrator, she published
Failing the Future: A Dean Looks at Higher Education in the Twenty-first
Century (1998).
Andrea Lebowitz joined Simon Fraser University as a charter faculty member
in 1965. She was a founder of the Department of Women's Studies and served
as its first chair. She taught in English and women's studies, and served
as associate dean of arts. She retired from SFU in 2001. She has published
several books on women's nature writing.
Helen Levine is a pioneer of feminist counselling and taught women's
studies at Carleton University's School of Social Work until her retirement
in 1988. Helen received the Governor General's Persons Award in 1989. She
is a founding member of Interval House of Ottawa-Carleton, a shelter for
battered women and their children; and of the Crones, a self-help group for
older women. She is a member of the Women's Envisioning Group in Ottawa,
concerned with local and global feminist issues. She was a major
participant in the film Motherland: Tales of Wonder, produced by the
National Film Board's Studio D.
Meg Luxton is professor of women's studies and social sciences and director
of the graduate program in women's studies at York University. Her main
research interests are women's paid and unpaid work, the Canadian women's
movement, and family and social policy. Her current research project
investigates how personal caregiving responsibilities and social policies
and programs designed to help people manage the demands of paid employment
play out in the lives of the people affected by them.
Lorna Marsden is president emerita and professor,York University. Prior to
joining York in 1997, she was on faculty at the University of Toronto
(1972-92), president and vice-chancellor of Wilfrid Laurier University
(1992-97), and a senator in the Parliament of Canada (1982-92). She was
president of the National Action Committee on the Status of Women during
1975-77.
Leslie Marshall taught for many years in the Department of English at the
University of Guelph. His main interest was dramatic literature. In 1974,
he introduced the first course at Guelph on women's literature. With his
wife, Linda, he is now living in retirement in Guelph.
Joan McFarland is a professor of economics and women's studies/gender
studies at St. Thomas University in Fredericton, New Brunswick, where she
has taught since 1971. Her research, which takes a feminist political
economy approach, has been on various aspects of women and the economy in
the Maritimes, in Canada, and across the globe. She is also a community
activist and was the national president of the Canadian Congress for
Learning Opportunities for Women in the late 1980s.
Greta Hofmann Nemiroff taught at Concordia University (formerly Sir George
Williams University) from 1963-79, in the Department of English and as a
founding member of the Women's Studies Program and the Simone de Beauvoir
Institute. Since 1973, she has taught at Dawson College, where she is
currently the coordinator of the Creative Arts, Literature and Language,
and Women's Studies programs. From 1991-96, she held the joint chair
ofWomen's Studies at Carleton University and the University of Ottawa, and
from 1999-2004 she was the president of the Sisterhood Is Global Institute,
an international feminist non-governmental organization.
Honoree Newcombe joined the Simon Fraser University library staff in 1971
while still a student. She has worked in graduate studies and as
departmental administrator in the English department. She was a founder of
the Department ofWomen's Studies and has served as the staff representative
on the Women's Studies Coordinating Committee.
Christine Overall is a professor of philosophy at Queen's University,
Kingston, where she served as an associate dean in the Faculty of Arts and
Science (1997-2005). In 1998, she was elected to the Royal Society of
Canada, and in 2005, she was appointed to a Queen's Research Chair, Queen's
internal equivalent of the Canada Research Chairs. During 1993-2006, she
authored a weekly feminist column,"In Other Words," in the Kingston
Whig-Standard. Her 2003 book, Aging, Death, and Human Longevity, won awards
from the Canadian Philosophical Association and the Royal Society of
Canada. Married for thirty-five years, she is the mother of two adult
children.
Alison Prentice taught at two secondary schools in Toronto, and at Atkinson
College, York University, and the Ontario Institute for Studies in
Education. Her publications range over the history of education and women's
history, with special attention to women's work in education. She is
currently an adjunct professor at the University of Victoria, attends a
Quaker meeting, and tries to juggle continuing family and household work
with choral singing, yoga, and belonging to various groups devoted to
discussions of history, books, and dreams, and the creation of an
intentional community.
Patricia Prestwich was born in Toronto and completed her undergraduate and
master's degrees at the University of Toronto. She received her PhD in
modern French history from Stanford University in 1973. From 1970 to 2007,
she taught courses in modern French history,women's history, and medical
history at the University of Alberta, where she is now a professor emerita.
She helped to found the Women's Studies Program at the University of
Alberta and was its chair for three years. She was also president of the
Academic Women's Association and in 2006 was very touched to be made a
lifetime member of that organization.
Sandra Pyke (PhD, McGill, 1964) spent most of her academic life at York
University where she is currently a professor emerita. Very active in the
Canadian Psychological Association, she served many years as a member of
the board of directors and was president of the association in 1982, as
well as a member of the Task Force on the Status of Women in Canadian
Psychology and the first coordinator of the Section on Women and
Psychology. At York, she held a series of administrative positions,
including director of the Graduate Program in Women's Studies, chair of the
Department of Psychology, and dean of the Faculty of Graduate Studies.
Ceta Ramkhalawansingh, who immigrated from Trinidad with her family in
1967, is a co-founder of women's studies at the University of Toronto,
where, in 1970, she and others formed a teaching collective.Her
contributions to feminist scholarship include joining the writing
collective of Women at Work in Ontario, 1850-1930 (winner of the 1975 City
of Toronto Book Award) and serving as guest editor of various feminist
journals. Appointed in 1983 to the Ontario government's Advisory Council on
Women's Issues, she was a formidable advocate for legislative change. Since
1981, Ceta has been introducing leading-edge policies on equity and human
rights at Toronto City Hall.
Wendy Robbins taught at the University of Guelph and Brown University
before moving to the University of New Brunswick, becoming UNB's first
female full professor of English in 1988 and co-founding its Women's
Studies Program. She is co-founder of the par-l feminist discussion list
and has served as chair of the Women's Committee of the Canadian
Association of University Teachers and vice-president of Women's and Equity
Issues for the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences.
She is a mother of two and a grandmother of one, and in 2007 she received a
Governor General's Award in Commemoration of the Persons Case.
Susan Sherwin is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and a university
research professor at Dalhousie University, where she has taught since
1974. Her principal appointment is in philosophy, with honorary
cross-appointments to gender and women's studies, bioethics, and nursing.
Her academic training was at York University (Hons BA) and Stanford
University (PhD). Her principal area of research and teaching is feminist
health-care ethics.
In 1955, Dorothy E. Smith graduated from London University (BSc in
Sociology), got married, and, with her husband, entered the University of
California at Berkeley). They had two children, a divorce, and a doctorate
apiece.Moving to Canada with her children in 1968, she soon started writing
papers proposing an alternative feminist sociology. These have been
published in The Everyday World as Problematic (1987) and elsewhere. Since
retirement in 1996, she has continued to write. The first book that she had
time to conceive and write as a whole, rather than assemble from various
papers, is Institutional Ethnography: A Sociology for People (2005).
Donna E. Smyth is a poet, short-story writer, playwright, and novelist.
While teaching English and creative writing at Acadia University, she was
the founding editor of the women's studies journal Atlantis. She has
published two novels-Quilt (1982) and Subversive Elements (1986)-as well as
a novel for children, Loyalist Runaway (1991), and two plays on the poet
Elizabeth Bishop, Running to Paradise (1999) and Sole Survivors (2003). She
is co-author of No Place like Home: Diaries and Letters of Nova Scotian
Women, 1771-1938 (1988). Her latest work, Among the Saints (2003), is a
collection of Maritime-based short stories.
Marylee Stephenson lives in Vancouver, in an innovative "co-housing"
complex. She has her own firm for doing social policy research and program
evaluation. She also has a parallel business drawing on her experience as
an amateur naturalist, nature writer, and photographer.Marylee has wended
her way through academia, and the private sector, and now is working on
developing ways to "age gracefully" while still doing research projects,
leading tours to the Galapagos Islands (as the author of a guidebook for
the islands and travel in Ecuador), appearing as a stand-up comic in clubs
and at conferences, visiting the grandnieces and -nephews, and walking her
dog.
With a PhD from the University of Alberta, Rosalind Sydie was appointed
assistant professor at the University of Waterloo. She returned to the
University of Alberta in 1969 as a sessional instructor, becoming an
assistant professor in 1974. She became the first f