Joy Parr
Biographic Data
| ID | 284671 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joy Parr |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joy |
| FAMILY NAME | Parr |
| SIGNATURE | PARR J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Western University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 67 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 29 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1969 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Gender of Breadwinners: Women, Men and Change in Two Industrial Towns, 1880-1950
Labouring Children: British Immigrant Apprentices to Canada, 1869-1924
Rethinking Expertise (review)
Reviewed by: Rethinking Expertise Joy Parr (bio) Rethinking Expertise. By Harry Collins and Robert Evans. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. Pp. xi+159. $37.50. By parsing the difference between “talking the talk” and “walking the walk”—in their terms, between “interactional” and “contributory” expertise— Harry Collins and Robert Evans aim “to help us make decisions about who counts as an expert and who does not in . . . technological di…
Smells Like: Sources of Uncertainty in the History of the Great Lakes Environment
Although environmental historians have depended most often on visual evidence, our work and the knowledge of those we study relies upon full-body contact with our surroundings. Our senses carry qualitatively different environmental information. Smells are evanescent. In the safety considerations surrounding a large chemical plant on the Lake Huron shore, transient “whiffs of danger” complicated the regulatory, statutory, and scientific sources of…
A Working Knowledge of the Insensible? Radiation Protection in Nuclear Generating Stations, 1962-1992
Radiation is a workplace hazard that eludes the sensing body, or seems to. After Chernobyl and Three Mile Island, Kai Erickson described radiation as 'an invisible threat,' 'the very embodiment of stealth and treachery.' The first generation of Canadian nuclear power workers, from their four decades of experience around reactors has a different sense of the matter. They describe a physical awareness of the morphology and topography of radiation, …
Risky Business: Nuclear Power and Public Protest in Canada
Chapter 1 Introduction: The Democracy-Technocracy Quandary Chapter 2 Risk Assessment in the Public Policy Domain Chapter 3 Nuclear Power and Public Protest Chapter 4 The Canadian Nuclear Industry Chapter 5 The Battle Over the Pickering Nuclear Generating Station Chapter 6 David and Goliath Meet on the Shore of Lake Ontario Chapter 7 The Future of Nuclear Power in Canada
Ruth Schwartz Cowan, More Work for Mother
Ruth Schwartz Cowan's More Work for Mother: The Ironies of Household Technology from the Open Hearth to the Microwave was and remains a rare and welcome hybrid, valued by both academic and nonacademic readers. It was awarded SHOT's Dexter Prize for its high level of scholarship in 1984, the year after its publication, and might equally—had the Sally Hacker Prize been in place at the time—have been honored for its reach toward a broad audience of …
Local Water Diversely Known: Walkerton Ontario, 2000 and after
In this narrative of the water contamination in Walkerton, Ontario, in 2000-02 I consider the local priorities defining good water. These vernacular understandings emphasised taste, softness, and thrift in municipal water, and they highly valued local sovereignty in matters of water quality, and solidarity as a quality of local citizenship. By using contemporaneous evidence from media reports and the judicial enquiry into the incident, I trace ho…
The Perception of the Environment: Essays in Livelihood, Dwelling, and Skill (review)
Tim Ingold's work has focused on hunters and gatherers, particularly in reindeer economies, and on pedagogically useful syntheses: a companion encyclopedia and a volume of key debates in his field, anthropology. These parts of his own practice/evolution/history inflect this hefty volume. Here he mounts an expedition to cull linguistically inscribed mind-body dualisms as modes of reasoning about environmental perception and set in their former pla…
Notes for a More Sensuous History of Twentieth-Century Canada: The Timely, the Tacit, and the Material Body
Eric Hobsbawm, in his much-praised book Age of Extremes, argues that the 'destruction of the past, or rather the social mechanisms that link one's contemporary experience to that of earlier generations, is one of the most characteristic and eerie phenomena of the late twentieth century. Most young men and women at the century's end grow up in a permanent present lacking any organic relation to the public past of the times in which they live.' In …
Domestic Goods: The Material, the Moral, and the Economic in the Postwar Years
Household Choices as Politics and Pleasure in 1950s Canada
We live our domestic lives in the presence of objects. Through our relations with them, we appraise, assimilate, appropriate, and resist the currents of our time, in a warm and willful dialogue between self and other. As goods change, and times change, so does this cultural traffic between householders and their goods change—in dominant direction, in relative intensity, in the character of the burden it carries, and in the significance we allow t…
Homeworking Women: Gender, Racism, and Class at Work
Homeworking and Women's Employment Trends Finding out about Homeworking Racialized Divisions in Homework The Coventry Sample Advantages and Disadvantages of Homework Information and Communication Technology Homeworking The Future for Homework
The Gender of Breadwinners: Women, Men and Change in Two Industrial Towns, 1880-1950
What Makes Washday Less Blue? Gender, Nation, and Technology Choice in Postwar Canada
Joy Parr, What Makes Washday Less Blue? Gender, Nation, and Technology Choice in Postwar Canada, Technology and Culture, Vol. 38, No. 1, Special Issue: Gender Analysis and the History of Technology (Jan., 1997), pp. 153-186
Mrs Consumer and Mr Keynes in Postwar Canada and Sweden
Gender History and Historical Practice
I remember some years ago sitting waiting for a faculty seminar to begin, when a well-published colleague entered, bemused. In a newly arrived packet of reviews his most recent offering was being described, and to his mind dismissed, as definitive. 'What they mean,' he muttered, 'is that I have laid to rest interest in the topic for at least a generation.' We all tittered, but no one was minded to dispute his conclusion. We each had a repertoire …
Property and Inequality in Victorian Ontario: Structural Patterns and Cultural Communities in the 1871 Census
Journal Article Property and Inequality in Victorian Ontario: Structural Patterns and Cultural Communities in the 1871 Census. By Gordon Darroch and Lee Soltow. (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1994. xvi, 280 pp. Cloth, $45.00, ISBN 0-8020-0516-0. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-80206952-5.) Get access Joy Parr Joy Parr Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, Canada Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of America…
The Gender of Breadwinners: Women, Men, and Change in Two Industrial Towns, 1800-1950
Journal Article The Gender of Breadwinners: Women, Men, and Change in Two Industrial Towns, 1800–1950. By Joy Parr. (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1990. xiv + 314pp. Cloth, $45.00, ISBN 0-8020-5853-1. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8020-6760-3.) Get access Susan Porter Benson Susan Porter Benson University of Missouri, Columbia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 4,…
The Gender of Breadwinners: Women, Men and Change in Two Industrial Towns, 1880-1950
Sisterhood Denied: Race, Gender, and Class in a New South Community
As an organized discipline and field of study, women's history benefitted tremendously from the demands and contributions of second-wave feminists during the 1960s and 1970s.By the 1980s, it was flourishing, encouraging the study of more and more aspects of women's lives, including their paid labor.Comprehensive, exceptional works like Alice Kessler-Harris's Out to Work: A History of Wage Earning Women in the United States, published in 1982, and…
Disaggregating the Sexual Division of Labour: A Transatlantic Case Study
Sexual division has been an obvious and enduring characteristic of wage work, much studied on both sides of the Atlantic. Gender roles, household forms, and community welfare have been made and remade by changing access to paid work. The theoretical literature on gender segregation in the labour force is rich, but economists and feminist theorists have been interested in sexual divisions as general features of the economic or sex/gender system ra…
The Skilled Emigrant and Her Kin: Gender, Culture, and Labour Recruitment
Rethinking Work and Kinship in a Canadian Hosiery Town, 1910-1950
Discovering Women's History: A Practical Manual
Domestic Goods: The Material, the Moral, and the Economic in the Postwar Years
Notes for a More Sensuous History of Twentieth-Century Canada: The Timely, the Tacit, and the Material Body
Eric Hobsbawm, in his much-praised book Age of Extremes, argues that the 'destruction of the past, or rather the social mechanisms that link one's contemporary experience to that of earlier generations, is one of the most characteristic and eerie phenomena of the late twentieth century. Most young men and women at the century's end grow up in a permanent present lacking any organic relation to the public past of the times in which they live.' In …
Property and Inequality in Victorian Ontario: Structural Patterns and Cultural Communities in the 1871 Census
Journal Article Property and Inequality in Victorian Ontario: Structural Patterns and Cultural Communities in the 1871 Census. By Gordon Darroch and Lee Soltow. (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1994. xvi, 280 pp. Cloth, $45.00, ISBN 0-8020-0516-0. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-80206952-5.) Get access Joy Parr Joy Parr Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, Canada Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of America…
Local Water Diversely Known: Walkerton Ontario, 2000 and after
In this narrative of the water contamination in Walkerton, Ontario, in 2000-02 I consider the local priorities defining good water. These vernacular understandings emphasised taste, softness, and thrift in municipal water, and they highly valued local sovereignty in matters of water quality, and solidarity as a quality of local citizenship. By using contemporaneous evidence from media reports and the judicial enquiry into the incident, I trace ho…
Hired Men: Ontario Agricultural Wage Labour in Historical Perspective
THIS IS A PAPER ABOUT the men1 who from the earliest days of settlement worked the land of Ontario for wages. They are a little known group. The myth of the province has been that the workers of the soil are its owners, and that farms were made from forest, swamp, and slabs of rock ill-disguised by brush by independent yeomen. Traditionally, those who worked farms were seen as freeholders who possessed the land they cleared, fenced, and tilled by…
Childhood and Family in Canadian History
Smells Like: Sources of Uncertainty in the History of the Great Lakes Environment
Although environmental historians have depended most often on visual evidence, our work and the knowledge of those we study relies upon full-body contact with our surroundings. Our senses carry qualitatively different environmental information. Smells are evanescent. In the safety considerations surrounding a large chemical plant on the Lake Huron shore, transient “whiffs of danger” complicated the regulatory, statutory, and scientific sources of…
A Working Knowledge of the Insensible? Radiation Protection in Nuclear Generating Stations, 1962-1992
Radiation is a workplace hazard that eludes the sensing body, or seems to. After Chernobyl and Three Mile Island, Kai Erickson described radiation as 'an invisible threat,' 'the very embodiment of stealth and treachery.' The first generation of Canadian nuclear power workers, from their four decades of experience around reactors has a different sense of the matter. They describe a physical awareness of the morphology and topography of radiation, …
Homeworking Women: Gender, Racism, and Class at Work
Homeworking and Women's Employment Trends Finding out about Homeworking Racialized Divisions in Homework The Coventry Sample Advantages and Disadvantages of Homework Information and Communication Technology Homeworking The Future for Homework
Risky Business: Nuclear Power and Public Protest in Canada
Chapter 1 Introduction: The Democracy-Technocracy Quandary Chapter 2 Risk Assessment in the Public Policy Domain Chapter 3 Nuclear Power and Public Protest Chapter 4 The Canadian Nuclear Industry Chapter 5 The Battle Over the Pickering Nuclear Generating Station Chapter 6 David and Goliath Meet on the Shore of Lake Ontario Chapter 7 The Future of Nuclear Power in Canada
Household Choices as Politics and Pleasure in 1950s Canada
We live our domestic lives in the presence of objects. Through our relations with them, we appraise, assimilate, appropriate, and resist the currents of our time, in a warm and willful dialogue between self and other. As goods change, and times change, so does this cultural traffic between householders and their goods change—in dominant direction, in relative intensity, in the character of the burden it carries, and in the significance we allow t…
What Makes Washday Less Blue? Gender, Nation, and Technology Choice in Postwar Canada
Joy Parr, What Makes Washday Less Blue? Gender, Nation, and Technology Choice in Postwar Canada, Technology and Culture, Vol. 38, No. 1, Special Issue: Gender Analysis and the History of Technology (Jan., 1997), pp. 153-186
Disaggregating the Sexual Division of Labour: A Transatlantic Case Study
Sexual division has been an obvious and enduring characteristic of wage work, much studied on both sides of the Atlantic. Gender roles, household forms, and community welfare have been made and remade by changing access to paid work. The theoretical literature on gender segregation in the labour force is rich, but economists and feminist theorists have been interested in sexual divisions as general features of the economic or sex/gender system ra…
Ruth Schwartz Cowan, More Work for Mother
Ruth Schwartz Cowan's More Work for Mother: The Ironies of Household Technology from the Open Hearth to the Microwave was and remains a rare and welcome hybrid, valued by both academic and nonacademic readers. It was awarded SHOT's Dexter Prize for its high level of scholarship in 1984, the year after its publication, and might equally—had the Sally Hacker Prize been in place at the time—have been honored for its reach toward a broad audience of …
The Perception of the Environment: Essays in Livelihood, Dwelling, and Skill (review)
Tim Ingold's work has focused on hunters and gatherers, particularly in reindeer economies, and on pedagogically useful syntheses: a companion encyclopedia and a volume of key debates in his field, anthropology. These parts of his own practice/evolution/history inflect this hefty volume. Here he mounts an expedition to cull linguistically inscribed mind-body dualisms as modes of reasoning about environmental perception and set in their former pla…
Mrs Consumer and Mr Keynes in Postwar Canada and Sweden
Discovering Women's History: A Practical Manual
The Terms of Engagement: Elements from the Genealogy of Active History
Left History features articles from a variety of theoretical approaches; these include feminist, marxist, and postmodernist deliberations on topics such as race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, culture, the state, labour, the environment, theory, and method
An Ordered Love: Sex Roles and Sexuality in Victorian Utopias: The Shakers, the Mormons, and the Oneida Community
Childhood and Family in Canadian History
Discovering Women's History: A Practical Manual
Hired Men: Ontario Agricultural Wage Labour in Historical Perspective
THIS IS A PAPER ABOUT the men1 who from the earliest days of settlement worked the land of Ontario for wages. They are a little known group. The myth of the province has been that the workers of the soil are its owners, and that farms were made from forest, swamp, and slabs of rock ill-disguised by brush by independent yeomen. Traditionally, those who worked farms were seen as freeholders who possessed the land they cleared, fenced, and tilled by…
The Skilled Emigrant and Her Kin: Gender, Culture, and Labour Recruitment
Rethinking Work and Kinship in a Canadian Hosiery Town, 1910-1950
Sisterhood Denied: Race, Gender, and Class in a New South Community
As an organized discipline and field of study, women's history benefitted tremendously from the demands and contributions of second-wave feminists during the 1960s and 1970s.By the 1980s, it was flourishing, encouraging the study of more and more aspects of women's lives, including their paid labor.Comprehensive, exceptional works like Alice Kessler-Harris's Out to Work: A History of Wage Earning Women in the United States, published in 1982, and…
Disaggregating the Sexual Division of Labour: A Transatlantic Case Study
Sexual division has been an obvious and enduring characteristic of wage work, much studied on both sides of the Atlantic. Gender roles, household forms, and community welfare have been made and remade by changing access to paid work. The theoretical literature on gender segregation in the labour force is rich, but economists and feminist theorists have been interested in sexual divisions as general features of the economic or sex/gender system ra…
The Gender of Breadwinners: Women, Men and Change in Two Industrial Towns, 1880-1950
The Gender of Breadwinners: Women, Men, and Change in Two Industrial Towns, 1800-1950
Journal Article The Gender of Breadwinners: Women, Men, and Change in Two Industrial Towns, 1800–1950. By Joy Parr. (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1990. xiv + 314pp. Cloth, $45.00, ISBN 0-8020-5853-1. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8020-6760-3.) Get access Susan Porter Benson Susan Porter Benson University of Missouri, Columbia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 4,…
Gender History and Historical Practice
I remember some years ago sitting waiting for a faculty seminar to begin, when a well-published colleague entered, bemused. In a newly arrived packet of reviews his most recent offering was being described, and to his mind dismissed, as definitive. 'What they mean,' he muttered, 'is that I have laid to rest interest in the topic for at least a generation.' We all tittered, but no one was minded to dispute his conclusion. We each had a repertoire …
Property and Inequality in Victorian Ontario: Structural Patterns and Cultural Communities in the 1871 Census
Journal Article Property and Inequality in Victorian Ontario: Structural Patterns and Cultural Communities in the 1871 Census. By Gordon Darroch and Lee Soltow. (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1994. xvi, 280 pp. Cloth, $45.00, ISBN 0-8020-0516-0. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-80206952-5.) Get access Joy Parr Joy Parr Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, Canada Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of America…
Mrs Consumer and Mr Keynes in Postwar Canada and Sweden
What Makes Washday Less Blue? Gender, Nation, and Technology Choice in Postwar Canada
Joy Parr, What Makes Washday Less Blue? Gender, Nation, and Technology Choice in Postwar Canada, Technology and Culture, Vol. 38, No. 1, Special Issue: Gender Analysis and the History of Technology (Jan., 1997), pp. 153-186
The Gender of Breadwinners: Women, Men and Change in Two Industrial Towns, 1880-1950
Household Choices as Politics and Pleasure in 1950s Canada
We live our domestic lives in the presence of objects. Through our relations with them, we appraise, assimilate, appropriate, and resist the currents of our time, in a warm and willful dialogue between self and other. As goods change, and times change, so does this cultural traffic between householders and their goods change—in dominant direction, in relative intensity, in the character of the burden it carries, and in the significance we allow t…
Homeworking Women: Gender, Racism, and Class at Work
Homeworking and Women's Employment Trends Finding out about Homeworking Racialized Divisions in Homework The Coventry Sample Advantages and Disadvantages of Homework Information and Communication Technology Homeworking The Future for Homework
Notes for a More Sensuous History of Twentieth-Century Canada: The Timely, the Tacit, and the Material Body
Eric Hobsbawm, in his much-praised book Age of Extremes, argues that the 'destruction of the past, or rather the social mechanisms that link one's contemporary experience to that of earlier generations, is one of the most characteristic and eerie phenomena of the late twentieth century. Most young men and women at the century's end grow up in a permanent present lacking any organic relation to the public past of the times in which they live.' In …
Domestic Goods: The Material, the Moral, and the Economic in the Postwar Years
The Perception of the Environment: Essays in Livelihood, Dwelling, and Skill (review)
Tim Ingold's work has focused on hunters and gatherers, particularly in reindeer economies, and on pedagogically useful syntheses: a companion encyclopedia and a volume of key debates in his field, anthropology. These parts of his own practice/evolution/history inflect this hefty volume. Here he mounts an expedition to cull linguistically inscribed mind-body dualisms as modes of reasoning about environmental perception and set in their former pla…
Risky Business: Nuclear Power and Public Protest in Canada
Chapter 1 Introduction: The Democracy-Technocracy Quandary Chapter 2 Risk Assessment in the Public Policy Domain Chapter 3 Nuclear Power and Public Protest Chapter 4 The Canadian Nuclear Industry Chapter 5 The Battle Over the Pickering Nuclear Generating Station Chapter 6 David and Goliath Meet on the Shore of Lake Ontario Chapter 7 The Future of Nuclear Power in Canada
Ruth Schwartz Cowan, More Work for Mother
Ruth Schwartz Cowan's More Work for Mother: The Ironies of Household Technology from the Open Hearth to the Microwave was and remains a rare and welcome hybrid, valued by both academic and nonacademic readers. It was awarded SHOT's Dexter Prize for its high level of scholarship in 1984, the year after its publication, and might equally—had the Sally Hacker Prize been in place at the time—have been honored for its reach toward a broad audience of …
Local Water Diversely Known: Walkerton Ontario, 2000 and after
In this narrative of the water contamination in Walkerton, Ontario, in 2000-02 I consider the local priorities defining good water. These vernacular understandings emphasised taste, softness, and thrift in municipal water, and they highly valued local sovereignty in matters of water quality, and solidarity as a quality of local citizenship. By using contemporaneous evidence from media reports and the judicial enquiry into the incident, I trace ho…
Smells Like: Sources of Uncertainty in the History of the Great Lakes Environment
Although environmental historians have depended most often on visual evidence, our work and the knowledge of those we study relies upon full-body contact with our surroundings. Our senses carry qualitatively different environmental information. Smells are evanescent. In the safety considerations surrounding a large chemical plant on the Lake Huron shore, transient “whiffs of danger” complicated the regulatory, statutory, and scientific sources of…
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