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Violence and the Female Imagination explores whether these imagined women are striking out at an external other or harming themselves through acts of self-destruction and depression. Gilbert examines the degree to which women are imitating men in the outward direction of their anger and hostility and suggests that such \"tough\" women may be mocking men in their \"macho\" exploits of sexuality and violence. She illustrates the ways in which Quebec female authors are \"feminizing\" violence or re-envisioning gender in North American culture.

WINNER - Prix du livre d’Ottawa 2016 WINNER - Prix Jean-Éthier-Blais 2015 WINNER - Prix Gabrielle-Roy 2014 FINALIST - Prix littéraire Trillium 2015 From the founding of New France to the present day, Quebec women have had to negotiate societal expectations placed on their gender. Tracing the evolution of life writing by Quebec women, Patricia Smart presents a feminist analysis of women’s struggles for autonomy and agency in a society that has continually emphasized the traditional roles of wife and mother. Writing Herself into Being examines published autobiographies and autobiographical fiction, as well as the annals of religious communities, letters, and a number of published and unpublished diaries by girls and women, to reveal a greater range of women’s experiences than proscribed, generalized roles. Through close readings of these texts Smart uncovers the authors’ perspectives on events such as the 1837 Rebellion, the Montreal cholera epidemic of 1848, convent school education, the struggle for women’s rights in the early twentieth century, and the Quiet Revolution. Drawing attention to the individuality of each writer while situating her within the social and ideological context of her era, this book further explores the ways women and girls reacted to, and often rebelled against, the constraints imposed on them by both Church and state. Written in a clear and compelling narrative style that brings women’s voices to life, Writing Herself into Being – the author’s own translation of her award-winning French-language book De Marie de l’Incarnation à Nelly Arcan: Se dire, se faire par l’écriture intime (Boréal, 2014) – offers a new and gendered view of various periods in Quebec history.WINNER - Prix du livre d’Ottawa 2016 WINNER - Prix Jean-Éthier-Blais 2015 WINNER - Prix Gabrielle-Roy 2014 FINALIST - Prix littéraire Trillium 2015 From the founding of New France to the present day, Quebec women have had to negotiate societal expectations placed on their gender. Tracing the evolution of life writing by Quebec women, Patricia Smart presents a feminist analysis of women’s struggles for autonomy and agency in a society that has continually emphasized the traditional roles of wife and mother. Writing Herself into Being examines published autobiographies and autobiographical fiction, as well as the annals of religious communities, letters, and a number of published and unpublished diaries by girls and women, to reveal a greater range of women’s experiences than proscribed, generalized roles. Through close readings of these texts Smart uncovers the authors’ perspectives on events such as the 1837 Rebellion, the Montreal cholera epidemic of 1848, convent school education, the struggle for women’s rights in the early twentieth century, and the Quiet Revolution. Drawing attention to the individuality of each writer while situating her within the social and ideological context of her era, this book further explores the ways women and girls reacted to, and often rebelled against, the constraints imposed on them by both Church and state. Written in a clear and compelling narrative style that brings women’s voices to life, Writing Herself into Being – the author’s own translation of her award-winning French-language book De Marie de l’Incarnation à Nelly Arcan: Se dire, se faire par l’écriture intime (Boréal, 2014) – offers a new and gendered view of various periods in Quebec history.

Using the tools of contemporary feminist criticism and building on a tradition of work on Quebec women's writing, Mary Jean Green considers issues of national and cultural self-definition, situating the literary texts of Quebec women within a unique political and historical context while also relating them to the work of women writing in other cultural situations, from nineteenth-century Europe to the postcolonial francophone world.

Si l’entre-deux-guerres constitue le point de bascule de la littérature canadienne-française dans la modernité, cela s’explique en partie par la présence de plus en plus marquée des femmes dans la vie littéraire. Dans les années 1930, nombreuses sont celles qui publient des romans, souvent au grand dam de la critique de l’époque. Bouleversant les conventions sociales et littéraires, leurs œuvres évoquent l’amour et la désillusion, mais également la sensualité, la folie et la nostalgie ; autant d’échos perceptibles des inquiétudes et des espoirs qui parcourent la décennie de la Crise au Québec. C’est à ces écrivaines aujourd’hui tombées dans l’oubli que ce livre est notamment consacré : Jovette-Alice Bernier, Éva Senécal et Michelle Le Normand. L’auteur, conciliant avec enthousiasme et érudition l’approche sociologique avec la poétique des textes, analyse finement les stratégies d’écriture de ces romancières qui ont ouvert durablement la voie aux femmes dans la littérature et dans la société canadiennes-françaises. Ce faisant, il éclaire d’un jour nouveau une époque que Fernand Dumont a justement qualifiée de « première Révolution tranquille ».

An examination of two examples of women's autobiography in Quebec: (1) Marie-Claire Blais's triptych novel Manuscrits de Pauline Archange ([The Manuscripts of Pauline Archange], Vol. II: Vivre! Vivre! [To Live! To Live!], Vol. III: Les Apparences [Appearances], Montreal: Editions du Jour, 1968, 1969, & 1970 respectively; English translation of Vols. I & II: The Manuscripts of Pauline Archange, Coleman, Derek [Tr], Toronto: Bantam Books, 1976; of Vol. III: Durer's Angel, Lobdell, David [Tr], Vancouver: Talonbooks, 1976); & (2) Claire Martin's Dans un gant de fer ([In an Iron Glove], Vol. I: La Joue gauche [The Left Cheek], Montreal: Pierre Tisseyre, 1965; Vol. II: La Joue droite [The Right Cheek], Montreal: Le Cercle du Livre de France, 1966; English edition: In an Iron Glove, Stratford, Philip [Tr], Toronto: The Ryerson Press, 1968). Both works reveal features noted by critics as characteristic of women's autobiography: focus on the narrator's relationships with others, & loose structure. However, the relationships that form the center of the texts also function to provide them with another kind of structure, a movement on the part of the protagonist from rejection through rebellion to ultimate liberation. These two texts also share a third characteristic of F autobiography: concentration on personal rather than political history. Yet the structure of personal development they describe reveals deep similarities to that of Quebec's political development in the period following the Revolution tranquille (Quiet Revolution). AA.

This article explores contemporary political ideologies in English Canada, francophone Quebec and the United States using cross-national attitudinal survey data. Drawing central hypotheses from the qualitative Canadian-American political culture literature, the analysis focusses on three dimensions of political ideology—ideological polarization, the issue content of the respective lefts and rights, and ideological coherence. Evidence of distinctive national “lefts,” together with fundamental similarities in the English-Canadian and American ideological “rights” and important differences in the ideological structures of the three political cultures, call into question some conventional generalizations found in the nonquantitative literature. Les auteurs ont recours à des données de sondages pour examiner certains aspects des idéologies politiques au Canada anglais, au Québec et aux États-Unis. Ils tentent de vérifier des hypothèses découlant d'une discussion qualitative de la culture politique sur les trois volets suivants: la polarisation idéologique, les questions débattues par les gauches et les droites de ces sociétés, la cohérence idéologique. Plusieurs traits observés mettent en cause des généralisations conventionnelles des tenants d'une analyse non-quantitative de la culture politique : l'existence de gauches distinctes d'une société à l'autre, des similarités fondamentales entre les droites canadienne-anglaise et américaine, ainsi que d'importantes differénces dans les structures idéologiques des trois cultures politiques étudiées.

The criminality & delinquency of women & girls are explored through literature & statistics from the government of Quebec & the Canadian Center of Juridical Statistics. Some of the literature concerning F criminality & delinquency is criticized as sexist, due to a madonna/prostitute stereotype of Fs, or parameters based on norms for M criminality. There is a need for new, nonsexist measures of criminality. The Quebec statistics reflect those of Canada: women tend to commit crimes against property & thefts of less than $200; & their sentences tend toward probations & fines, rather than imprisonment. Sex-based differences in length of imprisonment for those who are incarcerated, however, are diminishing. In Quebec, penalties have become more severe & there has been a rise in F incarceration. The literature & statistical data must be combined to reveal the true picture of F crime & delinquency in this era. 4 Tables, 50 References. D. Graves.