Articles

‘Our Bodies and Our Histories of Technology and the Environment’ in Stephen Cutcliffe and Martin Reuss eds.The Illusory Boundary:  Environment and Technology in History (University of Virginia Press) University of Virginia Press, 2010

‘The embodied implications of the Columbia Treaty,’  Festschrift in honor of Prof. Paul Weiler, Harvard University, (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2011)

‘The Practicing of History Shared across Differences: Needs, Technologies and Ways of Knowing in the Megaprojects New Media Project,’ with Jon van der Veen and Jessica Van Horssen Journal of Canadian Studies 43, 1 Winter 2009 1-24

‘Smells Like?: Sources of Uncertainty in the History of a Great Lakes Environment’ Environmental History April 2006 282-312

‘Working Knowledge of the Insensible: an embodied history of radiation protection in Canadian Nuclear Power Stations, 1962-92’ Comparative Studies in Society and History October 2006 820-851

‘Classics Reconsidered: Ruth Schwartz Cowan’s More Work for Mother,’ Technology And Culture July 2005  604-612

‘Local Water Diversely Known: Walkerton, Ontario 2000 and after,’ Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 23, 2 2005 251-71

‘Lostscapes: Found sources in search of a fitting representation,’ Journal of the Association for History and Computing 7, 2 Aug 2004

‘Introduction’ Histories of Canadian Children and Youth 2003

‘Introduction. Modern Kitchen, Good Home, Strong Nation’ Technology and Culture (2003) 657-667

‘Notes for a More Sensuous History of Twentieth Century Canada: the timely, the tacit and the material body,’ Canadian Historical Review 82, 4 December 2001 720-45

‘Homeworkers in Global Perspective,’ Feminist Studies (1999)

‘Household Choices as Politics and Pleasure in 1950s Canada’ International Labor and Working Class History Special issue on consumption, June 1999

‘What makes washday less blue: gender, nation and technological choice’  Technology and  Culture January 1997 153-86, reprinted as ‘Economics and Agency’ in Nina Lerma, Ruth Oldenziel and Arwen Mohun, Gender and Technology Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003, reprinted in James Opp and John Walsh, Home, Work and play: Situating Social History 1840-1980 Toronto: Oxford University Press, 2005

‘Mrs Consumer and Mr Keynes in Postwar Canada and Sweden’ Gender and History 8,2 August 1996 212-30

‘Gender History and Historical Practice,’ Canadian Historical Review Sept 1995, reprinted in Marlene Shore, The Contested Past (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002

‘Shopping for a Good Stove: a parable about gender, design and the market’ in Parr, A Diversity of Women pp 75-97, revised and reprinted in Roger Horowitz and Arwen Mohun, His and Hers: Gender, Technology and Consumption (University of Virginia Press, 1998)

‘Womanly Militance, Neighbourly Wrath: new scripts for old roles in a small town textile strike,’ in Audrey Kobayashi Women, work and place(McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1994) 38 ps.

‘Maria Susan Rye,’ Dictionary of Canadian Biography vol 13 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1994) 916-17

‘For Men and Girls: The politics and Experience of Gendered Wagework,’ from Gender of Breadwinners, reprinted in   Chad  Gaffield, Constructing Modern Canada (Toronto: Copp Clark, 1994) 311-328

‘Disaggregating the sexual division of labour:  a transatlantic case study,’ Comparative Studies in Society and History July 1988 519-536

‘The skilled emigrant and her kin: gender, culture and labour recruitment ‘, Canadian Historical Review, December 1987 529-51, reprinted in Ian McKay  A Daunting Modernity: a reader on post-confederation Canadian History (Toronto:McGraw-Hill, 1992); Veronica Strong-Boag and Anita Fellman, Rethinking Canada second edition (Toronto: Copp Clark,1992); Gerald Tulchinsky, Immigration in Canada: Historical Perspectives (Toronto: Copp Clark, 1994); Mary A Yeager, Women in Business International Library of Critical Writings in Business series (Oxford: Edward Elgar, 1999); and, Marlene Shore, The Contested Past (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002)

‘Rethinking work and kinship in a Canadian hosiery town, 1910-1950,’ Feminist Studies Spring 1987, 137-162, reprinted in B Bradbury, Canadian Family (Toronto: Copp Clark, 1992)

‘George Everitt Green’ in Dictionary of Canadian Biography Vol. 12 1990.

‘Nature and Hierarchy:  Reflections on the Writing of the History of Women and Children’ Atlantis, Fall 1985, 39-45.

‘Hired Men: Ontario agricultural wage labour in historical perspective’ Labour/Le Travail no. 15, Spring 1985 pp. 91‑103.

‘Women at Work’, in G.S. Kealey and W.J.C.  Cherwinski, Lectures in Canadian Labour and Working‑Class History (St. John’s, Memorial University, January 1985).

‘The significance of gender among emigrant gentle folk’ Dalhousie Review vol 62 no 4 Winter 1982‑83, 693-99.

‘Transplanting from dens of iniquity: theology and child immigration’ in Linda Kealey, ed.  A Not Unreasonable Claim (Toronto, Women’s Press, 1979).

‘Case records as sources for social history’, Archivaria No 4 Spring 1977 122-36.

‘The Welcome and the Wake:  Attitudes in Canada West toward the Irish Famine Migration’, Ontario History June 1974 101-113.