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Great Dames.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 1997Copyright date: ©1997Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (351 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781442675506
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Great DamesDDC classification:
  • 920.720971
LOC classification:
  • CT3270.G743 1997
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- Just the Facts? -- 'Write Down Everything Just as You Know It': A Portrait of Ibolya Szalai Grossman -- Victims of the Times, Heroes of Their Lives: Five Mennonite Refugee Women -- Driving towards Death -- Creating Facts -- Dear Ruth: This Is the Story of Maggie Wilson, Ojibwa Ethnologist -- Casting Light on Women in the Shadow of the Law: Toronto at the Turn of the Century -- Struggle to Create -- From Bovarysme to Automatisme (and Beyond): Thérèse Renaud and the Refus global Women -- The Wrong Time and the Wrong Place: Gwethalyn Graham, 1913-1965 -- 'Traditional' Lives -- Settling the Score with Myths of Settlement: Two Women Who Roughed It and Wrote It -- Anna of Intola: A Finnish-Canadian Woman with Sisu -- Soaring to New Heights: Changes in the Life Course of Mabel Mclntosh -- Breaking into 'Men's Professions' -- Marion Hilliard: 'Raring to Go All the Time' -- 'By Title and by Virtue': Lady Frederick and Dr Henrietta Ball Banting -- Elizabeth Allin: Physicist -- Giving Voice -- 'Out of a Cardboard Box beside Our Bed like a Baby': The Founders of Sister Vision Press -- Evelyn Garbary: 'For Those of Us Whose Bones Are Stage Props' -- CONTRIBUTORS -- ILLUSTRATION CREDITS -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.
Summary: This book elucidates the lives and achievements of several Canadian women from different walks of life.
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Intro -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- Just the Facts? -- 'Write Down Everything Just as You Know It': A Portrait of Ibolya Szalai Grossman -- Victims of the Times, Heroes of Their Lives: Five Mennonite Refugee Women -- Driving towards Death -- Creating Facts -- Dear Ruth: This Is the Story of Maggie Wilson, Ojibwa Ethnologist -- Casting Light on Women in the Shadow of the Law: Toronto at the Turn of the Century -- Struggle to Create -- From Bovarysme to Automatisme (and Beyond): Thérèse Renaud and the Refus global Women -- The Wrong Time and the Wrong Place: Gwethalyn Graham, 1913-1965 -- 'Traditional' Lives -- Settling the Score with Myths of Settlement: Two Women Who Roughed It and Wrote It -- Anna of Intola: A Finnish-Canadian Woman with Sisu -- Soaring to New Heights: Changes in the Life Course of Mabel Mclntosh -- Breaking into 'Men's Professions' -- Marion Hilliard: 'Raring to Go All the Time' -- 'By Title and by Virtue': Lady Frederick and Dr Henrietta Ball Banting -- Elizabeth Allin: Physicist -- Giving Voice -- 'Out of a Cardboard Box beside Our Bed like a Baby': The Founders of Sister Vision Press -- Evelyn Garbary: 'For Those of Us Whose Bones Are Stage Props' -- CONTRIBUTORS -- ILLUSTRATION CREDITS -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.

This book elucidates the lives and achievements of several Canadian women from different walks of life.

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