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Winner - 2010 Hilda Neatby Prize - English Article
 
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The Canadian Committee on Women’s History is proud to announce its 2010 winners of the Hilda Neatby Prize. The winner of the best English-language academic article deemed to make an original and scholarly contribution to the field of women's and gender history is Shirley Tillotson, for her article  "The Family as Tax Dodge: Partnership, Individuality, and Gender in the Personal Income Tax Act, 1942 to 1970" Canadian Historical Review 90, 3 (2009), 391-425

Shirley Tillotson has produced an original and intelligent, as well as sophisticated and eloquently written, study of how gender has historically shaped Canadian tax policy. The article is a major contribution to our understanding of the welfare state, the family economy, feminist theory and political history. She forces us to reconsider women’s engagement with the state, not only within public forums, but from within the family as well. In this way Tillotson demonstrates the centrality of gender to political studies.

The winner of the best French-language academic article published in a Canadian or International journal or book during the period 2007-2009 and deemed to make an original and scholarly contribution to the field of women’s and gender history is Élise Detellier for her article “Bonifier le capital humain” : le genre dans le discours médical et religieux sur les sports au Québec, 1920-1950 RHAF 62, 3-4 (Hiver-Printemps 2009): 473-499  

In the best traditions of gender history, Elise Detellier’s article draws together a range of themes including gender, language, sexuality and ideas of nation. Her article explains how the connection between moral and physical health for men and women were constructed in relation to each other and yet produced different opportunities for their participation in sport. One of the critical insights this piece offers is an explanation for why women’s sports remained underdeveloped by the post-war period in Quebec. The author is to be commended for drawing on an expansive historiographical tradition, including the international literature on sports as well as French and English scholarship in Canada.