Leslie A. Robertson with Kwagu’? Gixsam Clan, Standing up with Ga’axsta’las: Jane Constance Cook and the Politics of Memory, Church, and Custom (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2012). When women’s history emerged as a field in the 1970s, one of its original goals was to reclaim women from the shadows of history. It is fitting that the first CCWH

Susanne. M. Klausen, Abortion Under Apartheid: Nationalism, Sexuality, and Women’s Reproductive Rights in South Africa. Oxford University Press, 2015. Abortion Under Apartheid is a beautifully written, multi-dimensional, and convincingly argued examination of women’s reproductive choices under the South African apartheid regime. Utilizing a rich range of sources including government policy, court records, medical records, and oral histories, Klausen

Gail G. Campbell, ‘I Wish to Keep a Record’: Nineteenth-Century New Brunswick Women Diarists and Their World. University of Toronto Press, 2017. Gail Campbell’s ‘I Wish to Keep a Record’ is a beautifully written and methodologically impressive analysis of 28 nineteenth-century New Brunswick women diarists over multiple generations.  By examining broad themes in the life course of New Brunswick

Valerie Korinek. Prairie Fairies : A History of Queer Communities and People in Western Canada, 1930-1985. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2018. This year’s winner of the Canadian Committee’s Women’s and Gender History (CCWGH) Book Prize is Valerie Korinek’s Prairie Fairies: A History of Queer People and Communities in Western Canada, 1930-1985. The prize is awarded on a

Marie-Andrée Lamontagne. Anne Hébert: Vivre pour écrire. Boréal, 2019. The members of the jury chose to award the prize for the best French-language book in women’s history to Marie-Andrée Lamontagne, for Anne Hébert: Vivre pour écrire, published by Les Éditions du Boréal, a major contribution to the history of women of letters and, more broadly, to women’s

Joan Sangster, Demanding Equality. One Hundred Years of Canadian Feminism. University of British Columbia Press, 2021. A distillation of a lifetime of feminist activism, teaching, and research, this year’s winner of the Canadian Committee’s Women’s and Gender History (CCWGH) Book Prize is Joan Sangster’s Demanding Equality: One Hundred Years of Canadian Feminism. Drawing on extensive archival