Creating historical memory: English-Canadian women and the work of history

Creating historical memory: English-Canadian women and the work of history

Author
Beverly Boutilier, Alison L. Prentice
Publisher
University of British Columbia Press
Language
English
Year
1997
ISBN
9780774806404,9780774806411
File Type
pdf
File Size
68.9 MiB

Product Description Canadian women have worked, individually and collectively, at home and abroad, as creators of historical memory. This engaging collection of essays seeks to create an awareness of the contributions made by women to history and the historical profession from 1870 to 1970 in English Canada. Creating Historical Memory explores the wide range of careers that women have forged for themselves as writers and preservers of history within, outside, and on the margins of the academy. The authors suggest some of the institutional and intellectual locations from which English Canadian women have worked as historians and attempt to problematize in different ways and to varying degrees, the relationship between women and historical practice. Review "The editors convincingly show that for many of these women, history was a tool to demonstrate political or moral lessons. . . . The book illuminates professions and universities, and elegantly delivers the editors' promise to analyze historical consciousness."―The Canadian Historical Review"One of the best-edited collections of historical writing that I have read for some time. . . . It is chapters such as these that not only make this book but provide very useful additons to course reading lists as examples of well researched and written biographical case studies and institutional histories. . . . Overall, . . . this is a collection of women's history that should be on the shelves of a university library."―Lynne Trethewey, History of Education Review Review "Together [the essays] provide a coherent sense of the challenges facing women who dared to approach the throne of historical inquiry. . . . the contributors to this volume have done more than add women to the historiographical canon; they helped to redefine the canon itself. They have also produced a very readable volume, a testimony to the historiographical shift toward a narrative style that makes this book accessible to more than just a few 'scientific' historians."―Margaret Conrad, Canadian Book Review Annual Book Description Creating Historical Memory explores the wide range of careers that women have forged for themselves as writers and preservers of history within, outside, and on the margins of the academy. About the Author Beverly Boutilier is currently an advisor to the Women’s Studies Program of CUSO in Indonesia. Alison Prentice is one of Canada’s most distinguished historians of women. She is one of the authors of the pathbreaking 'Canadian Women: A History' and has worked on numerous books on the history of women in Canada. She currently resides in Victoria, B.C.

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