The Gender of Breadwinners

The Gender of Breadwinners: Women, Men and Change in Two Industrial Towns, 1880-1950 Copyright Date: 1990 Published by: University of Toronto Press       This is a story of two Ontario towns, Hanover and Paris, that grew in many parallel ways. They were about the same size, and both were primarily one-industry towns. But Hanover was a furniture-manufacturing centre; most of its workers were men, drawn from a community of ethnic German artisans and agriculturalists. In Paris the biggest employer was the textile industry; most of its wage earners were women, assisted in emigration from England by their Canadian employer. Joy Parr considers the impacy of these fundamental differences from a feminist perspective in her study of the towns’ industrial, domestic,...

Gender and History in Canada

Edited by Joy Parr and Mark Rosenfeld. Copp Clark, Toronto, 1996. 381p. Contents: Categories and terrains of exclusion : constructing the “Indian Woman” in the early settlement era in Western Canada / Sarah Carter –Real men hunt buffalo : masculinity, race and class in British fur traders’ narratives / Elizabeth Vibert –Race, gender and Canadian immigration policy : blacks from the Caribbean, 1900-1932 / Agnes Calliste –Like a Chinese puzzle : the construction of Chinese masculinity in Jack Canuck / Madge Pon –“Of slender frame and delicate appearance” : the placing of Laura Secord in the Narratives of Canadian loyalist history / Cecilia Morgan –Commemorating the woman warrior of New France : Madeline de...

Canadian Women on the Move 1867-1920

Joy Parr and Beth Light, Eds. Hogtown Press and OISE, 1983. Reviews In Canadian Women on the Move, editors Beth Light and JoyParr provide a rare glimpse into the hearts and minds of Canadian women in the half century after Confederation. This second volume in the Women in Canadian History Documentary Series contains selections from a wide range of original sources which reflect the great variations in the female experience across regional, class, and ethnic lines. Extracts from letters, diaries, reminiscences, contracts, and court proceedings, to mention only a few of the many sources explored, furnish a finely textured, sensitive portrayal of the lives of Canadian women.Leila Mitchell McKee, The Canadian Historical Review Purchase Amazon:...

Still Running: Personal stories by Queen’s women celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of the Marty Scholarship.

Joy Parr, Ed. Queen’s University Press, 1987. This book contains the autobiographical reflections of 15 winners of the Marty Memorial Scholarship, an award founded by the Alumnae Association and given to a Queen’s alumna for a year of further study. Published on the 50th anniversary of the scholarship in 1987, the book contains reminiscences dating from the 1920s to the 1980s and covering careers in the arts, letters, science, medicine, industry, and public service. The book was edited by Queen’s history professor Joy Parr. The foreword is by the late Pauline Jewett, a Marty winner and a long-time MP who also served as President of Simon Fraser University and as Chancellor of Carleton University. The scholarship is named in honour of Aletta and...