Sisters or Strangers? by Marlene Epp

Sisters or Strangers? by Marlene Epp

Spanning two hundred years of history from the nineteenth century to the 1990s, Sisters or Strangers? explores the complex lives of immigrant, ethnic, and racialized women in Canada. The volume deals with a cross-section of peoples - including Japanese, Chinese, Black, Aboriginal, Irish, Finnish, Ukrainian, Jewish, Mennonite, Armenian, and South Asian Hindu women - and diverse groups of women, including white settlers, refugees, domestic servants, consumer activists, nurses, wives, and mothers. The central themes of Sisters or Strangers? include discourses of race in the context of nation-building, encounters with the state and public institutions, symbolic and media representations of women, familial relations, domestic violence and racism, and analyses of history and memory. In different ways, the authors question whether the historical experience of women in Canada represents a 'sisterhood' of challenge and opportunity, or if the racial, class, or marginalized identity of the immigrant and minority women made them in fact 'strangers' in a country where privilege and opportunity fall according to criteria of exclusion. Using a variety of theoretical approaches, this collaborative work reminds us that victimization and agency are never mutually exclusive, and encourages us to reflect critically on the categories of race, gender, and the nation.

Marlene Epp is a professor in the Department of History at Conrad Grebel University College, University of Waterloo. Franca Iacovetta is a professor in the Department of History at the University of Toronto. Frances Swyripa is a professor in the Department of History and Classics at the University of Alberta.

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ISBN 13	9780802086099
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Titel	Sisters or Strangers?
Autor	Marlene Epp
Serie	Studies In Gender And History
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Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	University of Toronto Press
Erscheinungsjahr	2004-06-07
Seitenanzahl	380
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