Sisters or Strangers?

Immigrant, Ethnic, and Racialized Women in Canadian History, Second Edition
Herausgeber: Epp, Marlene; Iacovetta, Franca

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Produktbeschreibung

Spanning more than two hundred years of history, from the eighteenth century to the twenty-first, Sisters or Strangers? explores the complex lives of immigrant, ethnic, and racialized women in Canada.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• 2nd edition
• Seitenzahl: 624
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. August 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 147mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 839g
• ISBN-13: 9781442629134
• ISBN-10: 1442629134
• Artikelnr.: 44035355

Autorenporträt

Edited by Marlene Epp and Franca Iacovetta

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
MARLENE EPP AND FRANCA IACOVETTA
PART ONE: Race, Crime, and Justice
A New Biography of the African Diaspora: The Odyssey of Marie-Joseph
Angélique, Black Portuguese Slave Woman in New France, 1725-1734
AFUA COOPER
Unpacking the Discursive Irish Women Immigrant in Eighteenth- and
Nineteenth-century Newfoundland
WILLEEN KEOUGH
The Tale of Lin Tee: Madness, Family Violence, and Lindsay’s Anti-Chinese
Riot of 1919
LISA R. MAR
PART TWO: The Making of White Settler Societies
Turning Strangers into Sisters? Missionaries and Colonization in Upper
Canada 
CECILIA MORGAN
Whose Sisters and What Eyes? White Women, Race, and Immigration to British
Columbia, 1849–1871
ADELE PERRY
Exclusion through Inclusion: Female Asian Migration in the Making of Canada
as a White Settler Nation
ENAKSHI DUA
PART THREE: Letters and Tales of Settlement and Longing
Letters ‘home’ from Canada: British Female Emigrants and the Imperial
Family of Women
LISA CHILTON
The Interplay of Ethnicity and Gender: Swedish Women in Southeastern
Saskatchewan 
LESLEY ERICKSON
From Montreal and Venice with Love: Migrant Letters and Romantic Intimacy
in Italian Migration to Postwar Canada 
SONIA CANCIAN
PART FOUR: Labouring Domestics and Canadian Constraints
In Search of Comfort and Independence: Irish Immigrant Domestic Servants
Encounter the Courts, Jails, and Asylums in Nineteenth-Century Ontario
LORNA R. MCLEAN AND MARILYN BARBER
Taming and Training Greek “Peasant Girls” and the Gendered Politics of
Whiteness in Postwar Canada: Canadian Bureaucrats and Immigrant Domestics,
1950s –1960s
NOULA MINA
I Care for You, Who Cares for Me? Transitional Services for Filipino
Live-in Caregivers in Canada
GLENDA TIBE BONIFACIO
PART FIVE : Constructing Symbols and Bodies
Fashioning Conflicts: Gender, Power, and Icelandic Immigrant Hair and
Clothing in North America, 1874–1933 
LAURIE K. BERTRAM
A Larger Frame: ‘Redressing’ the Image of Doukhobor-Canadian Women in the
Twentieth Century 
ASHLEIGH ANDROSOFF
Propaganda and Identity Construction: Media Representation in Canada of
Finnish and Finnish-Canadian Women during the Winter War of 1939–1940
VARPU LINDSTROM
PART SIX: Activists and Political Subjects
Canadian Citizens or Dangerous Foreign Women? Canada’s Radical Consumer
Movement, 1947–1950
JULIE GUARD
Haitian Feminist Diasporic Lakou: Haitian Women’s Community Organizing in
Montreal, 1960–1980
GRACE L. SANDERS JOHNSON
An Unlikely Collection of Union Militants? Portuguese Cleaning Women Become
Political Subjects in Postwar Toronto
SUSANA MIRANDA
 
PART SEVEN: Food, Family, and Culture
The Semiotics of Zwieback: Feast and Famine in the Narratives of Mennonite
Refugee Women
MARLENE EPP
Jello-O Salads, One-Stop Shopping, and Maria the Homemaker: The Gender
Politics of Food
FRANCA IACOVETTA AND VALERIE J. KORINEK
Consuming Food and Constructing Identities among Arabic and South Asian
Immigrant Women 
HELEN VALLIANATOS AND KIM RAINE
PART EIGHT: History, Identity, and Belonging
‘Slotting’ Chinese Families and Refugees, 1947–1967 
LAURA MADOKORO
Experience and Identity: Black Immigrant Nurses to Canada, 1950–1980
KAREN FLYNN
The Mother of God Wears a Maple Leaf: History, Gender, and Ethnic Identity
in Sacred Space 
FRANCES SWYRIPA
PART NINE: Trauma, Violence, and Memory
Survival Their Survival: Women, Memory and the Holocaust
PAULA J. DRAPER
Days You Remember: Japanese Canadian Women and the Violations of Internment
PAMELA SUGIMAN
Feminist Oral History and Assessing the Dueling Narratives of Iraqi Women
in Diaspora
NADIA JONES-GAILANI