Rusty Bittermann. “Lady Landlords and the Final Defence of Landlordism on Prince Edward Island: The Case of charlotte Sulivan”. Histoire sociale/Social History 38 : 76 (November 2005). Rusty Bittermann has produced a fascinating case study of Charlotte Sulivan, a member of the London elite who challenged the colonial legislature of PEI, taking her case all the way […]

Shirley Tillotson,”The Family as Tax Dodge: Partnership, Individuality, and Gender in the Personal Income Tax Act, 1942 to 1970″. The Canadian Historical Review Volume 90, Number 3, September 2009. 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

Sarah Glassford, “The Greatest Mother in the World: Carework and the Discourse of Mothering in the Canadian Red Cross Society during the First World War,” Journal of the Association for Research on Mothering 10:1 (2008). This article offers a nuanced and multi-layered study of how a discourse of mothering came to dominate understandings of women’s carework in

Heidi MacDonald, “Who Counts? Nuns, Work and the Census of Canada”, Histoire Sociale/Social History vol. 43, no. 86 (November 2010), 369-391. Heidi MacDonald has produced an impressive and insightful piece of work on the various ways in which women religious (nuns) have been excluded or significantly undercounted in the Canadian census. Drawing on historiography on

Sheyfali Saujani, “Empathy and Authority in Oral Testimony: Feminist Debates, Multicultural Mandates, and Reassessing the Interviewer and her ‘Disagreeable’ Subjects.”  Histoire social/Social History, vol. XLV, no. 90 (November 2012), 361-391. Sheyfali Saujani’s article makes significant contributions to feminist historical theory and methodology, demonstrating that oral history interviews can contain conversational ruptures in which interviewees withhold empathy

Donica Belisle, “Crazy for Bargains: Inventing the Irrational Female Shopper in Modernizing English Canada”, CHR 92, 4, (December 2011), 581-606. Donica Belisle’s article is an innovative, engaging, well researched and multi-dimensional study that looks closely at the stereotype of the irrational female shopper in Canada from the 1890s to the 1930s, as constructed by a range

Adele Perry, “James Douglas, Amelia Connolly, and the Writing of Gender and Women’s History,” in Catherine Carstairs and Nancy Janovicek (eds.), Feminist History in Canada: New Essays on Women, Gender, Work, and Nation (Vancouver and Toronto: UBC Press, 2013), pp. 23-40. Adele Perry’s article, “James Douglas, Amelia Connolly, and the Writing of Gender and Women’s History,” revisits familiar

Katrina Ackerman, « In Defense of Reason : Religion, Science, and the Prince Edward Island Anti-Abortion Movement, 1969-1988 ». Katarina Ackerman analyzes a wide range of primary sources, backed solidly by secondary sources, to describe the actions of the Prince Edward Island Right to Life Association (RTLA). With her meticulous, thorough and nuanced analysis of written and oral material,

Carmen J. Nielson, “Caricaturing Colonial Space: Indigenized, Feminized Bodies and Anglo-Canadian Identity, 1873-94,”  The Canadian Historical Review, vol. 96, no 4 (December 2015), p. 473-506. Carmen J. Nielson’s “Caricaturing Colonial Space: Indigenized, Feminized Bodies and Anglo-Canadian Identity, 1873-94,” offers a superb illustration and provocative analysis of the visual trope of the indigenized and feminized body in Canada’s

Carmela Patrias, “More Menial than Housemaids? Racialized and Gendered Labour in the Fruit and Vegetable Industry of Canada’s Niagara Region, 1880-1945,” Labour/Le Travail 78 (Fall 2016): 69-104. With the First and Second World Wars and the Depression as a general backdrop, this article focuses attention on women seasonal labourers in Southern Ontario’s fruit and vegetable industry. Using

Meghan Longstaffe, « Indigenous Women as Newspaper Representations: Violence and Action in 1960s Vancouver », The Canadian Historical Review, 98, 2 (June 2017): 230-260. Meghan Longstaffe demonstrates masterful skill in linking the trauma experienced by Indigenous women in Downtown Eastside Vancouver with the history of colonial violence through an analysis of major Vancouver-based newspaper articles from

Karen Flynn, “ ‘Hotel Refuses Negro Nurse:’ Gloria Clarke Baylis and the Queen Elizabeth Hotel.” Karen Flynn’s essay is a critical and illuminating history showcasing the experiences of Gloria Clarke Baylis, a black nurse who experienced workplace discrimination. On 4 September 1964, Baylis applied for a job advertised by the Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal

Ashleigh Androsoff. “The Trouble with Teamwork: Doukhobor Women’s Plow Pulling in Western Canada, 1899”. Canadian Historical Review, 100(4), 540–563. With her insightful analysis of the images of Doukhobor women performing heavy physical labour normally assigned to men or draft animals, Dr. Androsoff demonstrates how these images disrupted the traditional narratives of settler experiences in the colonial

David Thompson, “More Sugar, Less Salt: Edith Hancox and the Passionate Mobilization of the Dispossessed, 1919–1928” Labour/Le Travail 85 (2020): 127-163. https://doi.org/10.1353/llt.2020.0005  Little is known about the women who contributed to Winnipeg’s early twentieth-century labour movement.  David Thompson’s “More Sugar, Less Salt” intervenes by providing a fascinating analysis of one of the city’s most prolific

Willeen Keough, “Newfoundland Landsmen Sealing: Interrogating the Limits of Ecomasculinity in the Late 20th and Early 21st Centuries,” Acadiensis 50, 2 (Autumn 2021): 155-183. Since the 1960s, debates concerning Newfoundland’s seal hunt have marginalized settler sealers’ experiences, expertise, and emotions. In this article, Willeen Keough offers a fresh perspective on the hunt and on the Newfoundlanders, who