The Hilda Neatby Prize English Article
E. Patricia Tsurumi
E. Patricia Tsurumi, “Serving in Japan’s Industrial Army: Female Textile Workers, 1868-1930”, Canadian Journal of History, August 1988.
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Joy Parr
Joy Parr, “The Skilled Emigrant and her Kin: Gender, Culture and Labour Recruitment”, Canadian Historical Review, December 1987.
Franca Iacovetta
Franca Iacovetta, “From Contadina to Worker in Toronto, 1947-62”, Looking Into My Sisters’ Eyes: An Exploration in Women’s History, The M.H.S.O., 1986, pp. 195-223.&Alison Prentice & Marta Danylewycz, “Teacher’s Work: Changing Patterns in the Emerging School System of Nineteenth Century Central Canada”, Labour/Le Travail, no 17, printemps 1986, pp. 59-80.
Diana Pedersen & Martha Phemister
Diana Pedersen & Martha Phemister, “Women and Photography in Ontario, 1839- 1929”, in special issue of Scientia Scientia Canadensis on “Women, Technology and Medicine in Canada”, volume 9, number 1. Honourable Mention:Susan Mann Trofimenkoff, “Feminist Biography”, Atlantis, volume 10, number 2.
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Dyan Elliott
Dyan Elliott, “Dress as Mediator Between Inner and Outer self: The Pious Matron of the high and Later Middle Ages”, in Mediaeval Studies, 53 (1991).
Ruth Roach Pierson
Ruth Roach Pierson, “Gender and the Unemployment Insurance Debates in Canada, 1934-1940”.
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Judith Fingard
Judith Fingard, “College, Career, and Community: Dalhousie Coeds, 1881-1921”, Youth, University, and Canadian Society, 1989.
Joan Sangster
Joan Sangster, “The Softball Solution: Female Workers, Male Managers and the Operation of Paternalism at Westclox, 1923-1960”.
Suzanne Morton
Suzanne Morton, “Women on Their Own: Single Mothers in Working Class Halifax in the 1920s”.
Rusty Bittermann
Rusty Bittermann, “Women and the Escheat Movement: The Politics of Everyday life on Prince Edward Island”.
Elsbeth Heaman
Elsbeth Heaman, Taking the World by Show: Canadian Women as Exhibitors to 1900, Canadian Historical Review.
Julie Guard
Julie Guard, “Fair Play or Fair Pay? Gender Relations, Class Consciousness, and Union Solidarity in the Canadian UE”. Honourable Mention:Raelene Frances, Linda Kealey and Joan Sangster, “Women and Wage Labour in Australia and Canada, 1880-1980”.
Rianne Mahon
Rianne Mahon, The Never-Ending Story: the Strugle for Universal Child Care Policy in the 1970s, Canadian Historical Review 81.4 (Dec. 2000): 582-615. The Mahon article is a major contribution to our understanding of the history of women’s relation to federal policy making in Canada. Using the feminist demand and the economic necessity for universal child care as
Joan Sangster
Joan Sangster, Criminalizing the Colonized: Ontario Native Women Confront the Criminal Justice System, 1920-1960. Canadian Historical Review 80.1 (March 1999), 32-60. In a richly descriptive account of her subject, Sangster argues that three crucial, interconnected factors contributed to the overincarceration of Native women: “The material and social dislocation precipitated by colonialism, the gender and race paternalism of
Donald F. Davis & Barbara Lorenzkowski
Donald F. Davis and Barbara Lorenzkowski. A Platform for Gender Tensions: Women Working and Riding on Canadian Urban Public Transit in the 1940s. The Canadian Historical Review. In this original article on women’s occupation of public space in the public transit system during the Second World War, Davis and Lorenzkowski offer a fresh angle of view on
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Renisa Mawani
Renisa Mawani, “Regulating the ‘Respectable’ Classes: Venereal Disease, Gender, and Public Health Initiatives in Canada, 1914-35”, in John McLaren, Robert Menzies and Dorothy E. Chunn (ed.), Regulating Lives: Historical Essays on the State, Society, the Individual and the Law (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2002): 170-95. In this article, Mawani examines the anti-venereal campaign that was launched in Canada
Susan Dalton
Susan Dalton, “Gender and the Shifting Ground of Revolutionary Politics: The Case of Madame Roland”, Canadian Journal of History XXXVI (August 2001): 259-82. Susan Dalton’s use of gender to reinterpret women’s political activity during the French Revolution is a polished, insightful and persuasive piece of historical scholarship. It casts new light on revolutionary politics, on gender norms and
Cecilia Morgan
Cecilia Morgan. “Performing for ‘Imperial Eyes’: Bernice Loft and Ethel Brant Monture, Ontario, 1930s-1960s”, in/dans Katie Pickles and/et Myra Rutherdale, Contact Zones: Aboriginal and Settler Women in Canada’s Colonial Past, Vancouver: UBC Press, 2006. Cecilia Morgan has produced an innovative and insightful study giving voice and agency to two twentieth century Native women performers of Iroquois
Katherine McKenna
Katherine McKenna. “Women’s Agency in Upper Canada: Prescott’s Board of Police Record, 1834-50,” Histoire sociale/Social History. Katherine McKenna’s perceptive use of a new documentary source, Police Records, has yielded novel and important insight into the lives of ‘lower class’ women in Upper Canada. This article offers us a compelling account of the differences between middle and
Karen Duder
Karen Duder. Public Acts and Private Languages: Bisexuality and the Multiple Discourses of Constance Grey Swartz in BC Studies, 136 (Winter 2002-3). In a very strong competition, this article impressed committee members with its innovative theoretical discussion and use of one womans personal writings to make a major intervention in the history of sexuality. It explores the
Cynthia Toman
Cynthia Toman. “Front Lines and Frontiers: War as Legitimate Work for Nurses, 1939-1945”. In this excellent article, Toman offers important new insights into women’s roles on the front lines, and nurses’ experience on the Homefront at war’s end. The author develops a fascinating argument concerning gender role reversal in the context of medical knowledge, technology