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Dreams of Equality: Women on the Canadian Left, 1920-1950

Dreams of Equality: Women on the Canadian Left, 1920-1950

Joan Sangster

In Dreams of Equality, Joan Sangster chronicles in fascinating detail the first tentative stages of a politically aware women's movement in Canada, from the time of women's suffrage to the 1950's when the CPC went into decline and the CCF ...
Through Feminist Eyes: Essays on Canadian Women's History

Through Feminist Eyes: Essays on Canadian Women's History

Joan Sangster

To the original essays, Sangster has added reflective introductory discussions that situate her earlier work in the context of developing theory and debate.
Equality Deferred: Sex Discrimination and British Columbia’s ...

Equality Deferred: Sex Discrimination and British Columbia’s ...

Dominique Clment

On criminal law and the regulation of female sexuality, see Joan Sangster, “ Incarcerating 'Bad Girls': The Regulation of Sexuality through the Female Refugees Act in Ontario, 1920-1945,” Histoire sociale/SocialHistory7 (1996): 239 -75; Joan ...
The Iconic North: Cultural Constructions of Aboriginal Life ...

The Iconic North: Cultural Constructions of Aboriginal Life ...

Joan Sangster

"In an enlightening exposure of Canada's cultural landscape, The iconic North lays bare the relationship between settler nation-building and popular images of Aboriginal experience.
Regulating Girls and Women: Sexuality, Family, and the Law ...

Regulating Girls and Women: Sexuality, Family, and the Law ...

Joan Sangster

Analyzing key examples of the sexual and familial regulation (through the law) of girls and women in twentieth-century Canada, this work explores the ways in which class, race, and gender shape the definition and punishment of criminality.
Becoming Modern in Toronto: The Industrial Exhibition and ...

Becoming Modern in Toronto: The Industrial Exhibition and ...

Keith Walden

... Hobbs, Colin Howell, Peter James, Pam Johnson, Laura Macleod, Doug McCalla, Alison Melville, David Monod, Tamara Myers, Diana Pederson, Joan Sangster, Colin Savage, Donald Smith, Eleanor Walden, and Liz Wilton. George Rawlyk ...
Earning Respect: The Lives of Working Women in Small-town ...

Earning Respect: The Lives of Working Women in Small-town ...

Joan Sangster

Earning Respect examines the lives of white and blue-collar women workers in Peterborough during this period and notes the emerging changes in their work lives, as working daughters gradually became working mothers.
Transforming Labour: Women and Work in Post-war Canada

Transforming Labour: Women and Work in Post-war Canada

Joan Sangster

139 Jeremy Milloy, 'A Battle Royal.' 140 vadboncoeur, 'Dupuis Frères,' 119. 141 ' Deux actions en dommages,' Le Devoir, 16 May 1952. 142 HECA, box 21712, ' Strike 1952' file, Dupuis Frères vs. Philippe Girard et al., 14 May 1952. 143 Ibid.
Cold War Comforts: Canadian Women, Child Safety, and Global ...

Cold War Comforts: Canadian Women, Child Safety, and Global ...

Tarah Brookfield

Linda Kealey and Joan Sangster (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1989); Frances Early, “The Historic Roots of the Women's Peace Movement in North America,” Canadian Women's Studies 7, no. 4 (Winter 1986): 43–48; Linda Kealey, ...
Joan of Arc: The Image of Female Heroism

Joan of Arc: The Image of Female Heroism

Marina Warner

Examines the life of Joan of Arc and explores the meaning of Joan both to her contemporaries and succeeding generations--Joan as hero, prophet, heretic, androgyne, harlot, and saint
Joan of Arc: The Image of Female Heroism

Joan of Arc: The Image of Female Heroism

Marina Warner

The night Joan spent with Catherine de La Rochelle in the winter of 1429, trying to discover if there were any truth in her, is one of the most interesting and extraordinary incidents in the whole of Joan's career. When Catherine said that her ...
Visions of the Maid: Joan of Arc in American Film and Culture

Visions of the Maid: Joan of Arc in American Film and Culture

Robin Blaetz

In Visions of the Maid, Blaetz examines three pivotal films—Cecil B. DeMille's 1916 Joan the Woman, Victor Fleming's 1948 Joan of Arc, and Otto Preminger's 1957 Saint Joan—as well as addressing a broad array of popular culture ...
Joan Robinson

Joan Robinson

G. Harcourt

This section is based on Pervez Tahir's monograph, Making Sense of Joan Robinson on China, which he wrote when he was the 1990 Joan Robinson Memorial Lecturer at the Faculty of Economics and Politics, University of Cambridge.
Joan of Arc: The Early Debate

Joan of Arc: The Early Debate

Deborah A. Fraioli

(Does) an immense service to anyone interested in Joan of Arc... skillfully disentangles countless textual threads, all centered around one problem: the nature of Joan's mission as it was examined in the early theological debates.
Joan of Arc: Reality and Myth

Joan of Arc: Reality and Myth

Dirk Arend Berents

The appearance of Joan of Arc JAN VAN HERWAARDEN The available documents have enabled us to learn to know the true Joan of Arc as a real person: of flesh and blood, intent on a mission and authoritarian, purposeful and arrogant, ...
Fresh Verdicts on Joan of Arc

Fresh Verdicts on Joan of Arc

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I am indebted to three earlier discussions of the cinematic treatment of Joan of Arc: a special issue of Etudes cine'matographiques 18— 19 (1962) devoted to “ Jeanne d'Arc a l'e'cran”; Robin Blaetz, “Strategies of Containment: Joan of Arc in  ...
Shark Island

Shark Island

Joan Druett

Praise for Joan Druett and A Watery Grave "What a terrific idea New Zealand naval historian Joan Druett had for a mystery series."—Chicago Tribune "This impressive debut will appeal both to fans of historical mysteries and to Patrick O' ...
Just Keep Breathing. At 44, he died. She didn’t.:

Just Keep Breathing. At 44, he died. She didn’t.:

Joan Scott Curtis

She didn't. by Joan Scott Curtis © 2013 Joan Scott Curtis All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, mechanical or electronic, including photocopying and recording, or by any ...
Joan of Arc: The Image of Female Heroism

Joan of Arc: The Image of Female Heroism

Marina Warner

clothing, see knight, Joan of Arc as: clothing; transvestism cult of [after her death] attempted suppression of, 4 centered on Domremy, 237 early promoters of, 181 growth of, 19th cent, 181 see also Joan of Arc: veneration of death of, see death:  ...
Business Week

Business Week

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A Watery Grave

A Watery Grave

Joan Druett

Joan Druett. A WATERY GRAVE JOAN DRUETT A WATERY GRAVE JOAN DRUETT INTI-L; g BUOKS. Front Cover.
Frequency of Use and the Organization of Language

Frequency of Use and the Organization of Language

Joan Bybee

This volume collects three decades of articles by the distinguished linguist Joan Bybee.
Squashed

Squashed

Joan Bauer

Humor, agriculture and young love all come together in Joan Bauer's first novel, set in rural Iowa.
From Prevention to Wellness Through Group Work

From Prevention to Wellness Through Group Work

Joan K Parry

Joan K Parry. First published 1997 by The Haworth Press, Inc. Published 2013 by Routledge 711 Third Avenue, New York, ... Library of Congress Cataloging-in- Publication Data Parry, Joan K. From prevention to wellness through group work  ...
Joan Bauer

Joan Bauer

Alleen Pace Nilsen

Examines the short stories and novels of young adult literature author Joan Bauer.
Joan of Arc: Her Story

Joan of Arc: Her Story

Regine Pernoud

In a distinguished English translation, the bestselling French book now considered the standard biography of Joan published just in time for the upcoming film by Luc Besson.
Reading Joan Didion

Reading Joan Didion

Lynn Marie Houston

This book is a compelling reference guide for book clubs on the work of Joan Didion, with summaries of her major works and discussion questions. * Discussion questions on Joan Didion's works, literary movements, and literary analysis * An ...
Tell Me

Tell Me

Joan Bauer

Luckily, a take-charge girl like Anna is not going to give up. Told with Joan Bauer's trademark mixture of humor and heart, Tell Me will enthrall her many fans and win her new ones.

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