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The last suffragist standing : the life and times of Laura Marshall Jamieson
\"Canada's vibrant suffrage movement was a complicated story of achievement and loss. The Last Suffragist Standing is an unprecedented study of a pioneering Canadian suffragist and politician, a New Woman who tested Canadian democracy. A rich product of archival and public sources, this biography of Laura Marshall Jamieson (1882-1964) opens a window into the political and social landscape of the time. Veronica Strong-Boag chronicles Jamieson's life from orphaned child of marginal Ontario farmers to member of British Columbia's Legislative Assembly and Vancouver city councillor. The last suffragist in Canada to be elected to a provincial or federal legislature, Jamieson embraced issues such as factory labour conditions, minimum wage, feminist pacifism, housing, municipal franchise, and employment equality throughout her six decades of activism. Jamieson's political radicalism was forged by the suffragist movement and the Great Depression, whetted by her exposure to mainstream and fringe activist groups, and tempered during her tenures in office. Strong-Boag's meticulous research and deep knowledge of the history of the women's movement and Canadian politics turn this compelling account of a woman's life into an illuminating work on the history of feminism, socialism, internationalism, and activism in Canada.\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Laser Scribing of High-Performance and Flexible Graphene-Based Electrochemical Capacitors
Although electrochemical capacitors (ECs), also known as supercapacitors or ultracapacitors, charge and discharge faster than batteries, they are still limited by low energy densities and slow rate capabilities. We used a standard LightScribe DVD optical drive to do the direct laser reduction of graphite oxide films to graphene. The produced films are mechanically robust, show high electrical conductivity (1738 Siemens per meter) and specific surface area (1520 square meters per gram), and can thus be used directly as EC electrodes without the need for binders or current collectors, as is the case for conventional ECs. Devices made with these electrodes exhibit ultrahigh energy density values in different electrolytes while maintaining the high power density and excellent cycle stability of ECs. Moreover, these ECs maintain excellent electrochemical attributes under high mechanical stress and thus hold promise for high-power, flexible electronics.
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Children's health issues in historical perspective
From sentimental stories about polio to the latest cherub in hospital commercials, sick children tug at the public's heartstrings. However sick children have not always had adequate medical care or protection. The essays in Children's Issues in Historical Perspective investigate the identification, prevention, and treatment of childhood diseases from the 1800s onwards, in areas ranging from French-colonial Vietnam to nineteenth-century northern British Columbia, from New Zealand fresh air camps to American health fairs.
Themes include: the role of government and/or the private sector in initiating and underwriting child public health programs; the growth of the profession of pediatrics and its views on \"proper\" mothering techniques; the role of nationalism, as well as ethnic and racial dimensions in child-saving movements; normative behaviour, social control, and the treatment of \"deviant\" children and adolescents; poverty, wealth, and child health measures; and the development of the modern children's hospital.
This liberally illustrated collection reflects the growing academic interest in all aspects of childhood, especially child health, and originates from health care professionals and scholars across the disciplines. An introduction by the editors places the historical themes in context and offers an overview of the contemporary study of children's health.
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Paddling Her Own Canoe
Frequently dismissed as a 'nature poet' and an 'Indian Princess' E. Pauline Johnson (1861-1913) was not only an accomplished thinker and writer but a contentious and passionate personality who 'talked back' to Euro-Canadian culture. Paddling Her Own Canoe is the only major scholarly study that examines Johnson's diverse roles as a First Nations champion, New Woman, serious writer and performer, and Canadian nationalist.
A Native advocate of part-Mohawk ancestry, Johnson was also an independent, self-supporting, unmarried woman during the period of first-wave feminism. Her versatile writings range from extraordinarily erotic poetry to polemical statements about the rights of First Nations. Based on thorough research into archival and published sources, this volume probes the meaning of Johnson's energetic career and addresses the complexities of her social, racial, and cultural position. While situating Johnson in the context of turn-of-the-century Canada, the authors also use current feminist and post-colonial perspectives to reframe her contribution. Included is the first full chronology ever compiled of Johnson's writing.
Pauline Johnson was an extraordinary woman who crossed the racial and gendered lines of her time, and thereby confounded Canadian society. This study reclaims both her writings and her larger significance.
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Painting the Maple
Gathering insights from numerous fields about the construction of Canada, this provocative volume illuminates the challenges that lie ahead for all Canadians who aspire to create a better future.
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Remembering Natalie Zemon Davis
Natalie's spirited insistence on the significance of women's labour and resistance, whether as witches, weavers, writers, mothers, or queens, signalled the promise of the New Social History. While my adviser mused that my thesis (1975) would probably be sufficient in incorporating women into the national story, Natalie's recovery of New France founder Marie de l'Incarnation for History 348 - like her subsequent book, Women on the Margins (1985) - inserted Canada into a global story of women and work, both paid and unpaid. Today, more than 50 years after I met Natalie, I know that my doctoral thesis, published as The Parliament of Women: The National Council of Women of Canada, 1893-1929 (1976), and later contributions such as The New Day Recalled: Lives of Girls and Women in English Canada, 1919-1939 (1988), Losing Ground: The Effects of Government Cut-Backs on Women in BC, 20002005; Report for the BC Federation of Labour ^2005) (with Gillian Creese), my directorship of the editorial board for l/lt (1983-86), and A Liberal-Labour Lady: The Times and Life of Mary Ellen Spear Smith (2022) owe much to a tiny enchantress who found a northern home after she and her husband, Chandler (himself another generous mentor), defied the US House Committee on Un-American Activities in the 1950s. Later, a group of women's historians at the University of New Brunswick, where I taught, submitted a nomination for a joint honorary degree to recognize their collaboration, and in 2005 it came to fruition.
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Mapping Women's Studies in Canada: Some Signposts
Mapping Women's Studies in Canada: Some Signposts
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\SHE NAMED IT CANADA BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT IT WAS CALLED\: LANGUAGE AND JUSTICE IN CANADA 2017
Global feminist theorists such as Adrienne Rich, Audre Lorde and Judith Butler have routinely highlighted linguistic injuries.5 In Canada, sociologist Margrit Eichler's dissection of \"androcentricity\", \"overgeneralization,\" \"gender insensitivity,\" and the \"double standard,\" in her classic Nonsexist Reseaich Methods: a Practical Guide (1988) mapped the terrain to a more just future. In 2017, the same politics of possibility informs important creative initiatives, such as the \"Remember/ Resist/Redraw: A Radical History Project\" by the Graphic History Collective, the #LOVEISLOVE ISLOVE photography campaign against homophobia and transphobia by Adam Zivo and the Canadian Centre for Gender and Sexual Diversity, the May 2017 discussion on \"Restorying Islam and Judaism in Canada\" at the University of Ottawa, and the \"Shame and Prejudice\" exhibit that started out at the University of Toronto in January 2017 by Cree artist Ken Monkman. [...]when I survey Canada, my vision takes hope, admittedly sometimes fragile, from our collective capacity to embrace language that extends the idea and the practice of equality and fair dealing. 4 See inter alia \"University of Toronto Professor Defends Right to Use Gender-Specific Pronouns,\" Globe and Mail (19 Nov. 2016) and Lauren Heuser, \"The Legal Case for Gender-Neutral Pronouns,\" The Walrus (22 Dec. 2016); Jason Markusoff, Charlie Gillis and Michael Friscolanti, \"The Robin Camp Case: Who Judges Judges,\" Macleans (14 Sept. 2016) and Elaine Craig, \"Section 276 Misconstrued: The Failure to Properly Interpret and Apply Canada's Rape Shield Provisions,\" Canadian Bar Review 94:1 (2016); Stassa Edwards, \"What Can We Learn from Canada's 'Appropriation Prize' Literary Fiasco?\", Jezebel (16 May 2017), http://jezebel.com/what-can-we-learn-from-canadas-appropriation-prize-lite-1795175192 ; Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm, \"The Cultural Appropriation Debate is Over.
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