Donica Belisle
Biographic Data
| ID | 3840890 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Donica Belisle |
| GIVEN NAMES | Donica |
| FAMILY NAME | Belisle |
| SIGNATURE | BELISLE D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Regina |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 19 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Rethinking Feminist History and Theory
Capitalism and Atrocity
In The World of Sugar, Ulbe Bosma provides a sweeping and detailed overview of the global history of sugar. Beginning with the origins of granulated sugar in India 2,500 years ago, the book covers its spread throughout Asia, Europe, the Americas, and, in the twentieth century, Africa. Bosma's focus is on refined sucrose, the commodity today we usually refer to as sugar. For most of world history this product has been derived from sugarcane, thoug…
Is Cane Sugar “Canadian”? The Disavowal of Global Lives and Lands within Canadian Sugar Marketing
This article considers the history of global supply chains in relation to Canadian sugar marketing. Now a dietary staple, refined sugar in Canada today is plentiful and affordable. Ninety percent of this sugar is made from imported cane. Yet within Canada little public awareness exists regarding cane sugars’ countries of origin. Inquiring into how Canadian refiners have portrayed their cane sugars’ provenance, this article sketches out the histor…
Anti-Black Racism in Food Advertising
Between 1947 and 1958, B.C. Sugar—western Canada’s largest sugar manufacturer—ran six major advertising campaigns that depicted Black people as laborers on sugarcane plantations. One of these campaigns, moreover, played upon offensive stereotypes of Black men as happy-go-lucky, childlike, and suited for manual labor. Analyzing the reach, content, and significances of these campaigns, this article suggests that despite increased civil and human ri…
Exploring Postwar Consumption
Purchasing Power
Why do Canadians consume? This book explores the meanings of consumption in early-twentieth-century Canada, demonstrating that many Canadians have long viewed consumer goods as central to their visions of belonging, identity, and citizenship.
Eating Clean
Between 1891 and 1914, western Canada’s largest sugar manufacturer – BC Sugar – constructed a racialized discourse of food cleanliness. This discourse argued that Chinese-made sugars were contaminated while Canadian-made sugars were clean. Through an analysis of this discourse, this article argues that BC Sugar constructed a purity/polluted binary that suggested that white consumers’ racial purity was threatened by Chinese-made sugars. It then li…
Mary Quayle Innis
Mary Quayle Innis (1899–1972) was instrumental in forging the career and legacy of her husband, Harold Adams Innis (1894–1952). Her labours on his behalf included typing, editing, writing, researching, preparing indices, curating his papers, revising his publications, and bringing his manuscripts to press. Quayle also ran errands, shopped, did laundry, prepared food, and provided care for Innis and their four children. She further often networked…
Consumers in the Bush
Conservative Consumerism
Whereas most historical research into Canadian women’s consumer advocacy presents that activism as progressive, many Canadian women have organized as consumers to serve conservative ends. References to consumer issues that appeared in Woman’s Century, the official magazine of the National Council of Women of Canada between 1914 and 1921, reveal that the magazine’s contributors advocated consumer activism to protect their own pocketbooks and to ad…
Kate Haulman, The Politics of Fashion in Eighteenth Century America
Parity Democracy
In recent years, several countries have adopted measures such as candidate gender quotas to increase women’s presence in electoral politics. France adopted gender parity reforms – laws to ensure equal access to elected office for women and men – in 1999 and 2000. What influence have these reforms had on women’s political representation? In Parity Democracy, Jocelyne Praud and Sandrine Dauphin assess the evolution of France’s gender parity reforms…
Retail Nation
The experience of walking down a store aisle -- replete with displays, advertisements, salespeople, consumer goods, and infinite choice -- is so common that we often forget retail stores barely existed a century ago. Retail Nation traces Canada's transformation into a modern consumer nation back to an era when Eaton's, Simpson's, and the Hudson's Bay Company ruled the shopping scene. Between 1890 and 1940, department stores revolutionized selling…
Crazy for Bargains
Between the 1890s and 1930s, anglophone politicians, journalists, novelists, and other commentators living in western, central, and eastern Canada drew upon established connections among greed, luxury, hysteria, and femininity to describe women who went shopping as irrational. Their motivations for doing so included their desires to assuage feelings of guilt about increased abundance; articulate anger caused by spousal conflicts over money; asser…
Virtue and Vice
This article explores references to commodities and consumption in English language fiction either written by Canadians or published in Canada between 1890 and 1940. It confirms and expands existing research into Canadian consumer history by showing that consumer themes were central to authors’ portrayals of class, gender, and morality. Suggesting that fiction offers important historical perspectives on English Canadian culture, it demonstrates t…
Retail Nation
Introduction: Canadian Consumer Society 1 Rise of Mass Retail 2 Creating Modern Canada 3 Fathers of Mass Merchandising 4 Crafting the Consumer Workforce 5 Shopping, Pleasure, and Power 6 Working at the Heart of Consumption 7 Criticizing the Big Stores Epilogue: Canadian Institutions? Notes Bibliography Index
Silicon Valley, Women, and the California Dream
Introduction i 1. The Fruited Valley 13 2. The Fruit Industry Workforce at High Tide: A Wave of Militancy Hits the Valley 48 3. War and Cold War Shape the Valley: The Birth of a Metropolis and the Death of Union Democracy 81 4. Toward Silicon Valley 112 5. New Immigrants and Silicon Valley: Struggles, Successes, and Transformations 147 6. The Valley as Feminist Capital of the Nation I83 7. The Global Economy on the Home Front: A Tale oF Two Valle…
Toward a Canadian Consumer History
In 1992, CYNTHIA WRIGHT noted that [rjemarkably little Canadian work has been done, whether by labour, social, or feminist historians, to document and to theorize the impact of consumer culture.1 Over the past decade, many scholars have altered this situation, and recently several works addressing Canadian consumer history have appeared. Together this scholarship tells historians much about the rise and transformation of consumption in Canada. Pe…
Celebrating "Labour/Le Travail's" Fiftieth Issue
Silicon Valley, Women, and the California Dream
Introduction i 1. The Fruited Valley 13 2. The Fruit Industry Workforce at High Tide: A Wave of Militancy Hits the Valley 48 3. War and Cold War Shape the Valley: The Birth of a Metropolis and the Death of Union Democracy 81 4. Toward Silicon Valley 112 5. New Immigrants and Silicon Valley: Struggles, Successes, and Transformations 147 6. The Valley as Feminist Capital of the Nation I83 7. The Global Economy on the Home Front: A Tale oF Two Valle…
Toward a Canadian Consumer History
In 1992, CYNTHIA WRIGHT noted that [rjemarkably little Canadian work has been done, whether by labour, social, or feminist historians, to document and to theorize the impact of consumer culture.1 Over the past decade, many scholars have altered this situation, and recently several works addressing Canadian consumer history have appeared. Together this scholarship tells historians much about the rise and transformation of consumption in Canada. Pe…
Eating Clean
Between 1891 and 1914, western Canada’s largest sugar manufacturer – BC Sugar – constructed a racialized discourse of food cleanliness. This discourse argued that Chinese-made sugars were contaminated while Canadian-made sugars were clean. Through an analysis of this discourse, this article argues that BC Sugar constructed a purity/polluted binary that suggested that white consumers’ racial purity was threatened by Chinese-made sugars. It then li…
Celebrating "Labour/Le Travail's" Fiftieth Issue
Toward a Canadian Consumer History
In 1992, CYNTHIA WRIGHT noted that [rjemarkably little Canadian work has been done, whether by labour, social, or feminist historians, to document and to theorize the impact of consumer culture.1 Over the past decade, many scholars have altered this situation, and recently several works addressing Canadian consumer history have appeared. Together this scholarship tells historians much about the rise and transformation of consumption in Canada. Pe…
Silicon Valley, Women, and the California Dream
Introduction i 1. The Fruited Valley 13 2. The Fruit Industry Workforce at High Tide: A Wave of Militancy Hits the Valley 48 3. War and Cold War Shape the Valley: The Birth of a Metropolis and the Death of Union Democracy 81 4. Toward Silicon Valley 112 5. New Immigrants and Silicon Valley: Struggles, Successes, and Transformations 147 6. The Valley as Feminist Capital of the Nation I83 7. The Global Economy on the Home Front: A Tale oF Two Valle…
Parity Democracy
In recent years, several countries have adopted measures such as candidate gender quotas to increase women’s presence in electoral politics. France adopted gender parity reforms – laws to ensure equal access to elected office for women and men – in 1999 and 2000. What influence have these reforms had on women’s political representation? In Parity Democracy, Jocelyne Praud and Sandrine Dauphin assess the evolution of France’s gender parity reforms…
Retail Nation
The experience of walking down a store aisle -- replete with displays, advertisements, salespeople, consumer goods, and infinite choice -- is so common that we often forget retail stores barely existed a century ago. Retail Nation traces Canada's transformation into a modern consumer nation back to an era when Eaton's, Simpson's, and the Hudson's Bay Company ruled the shopping scene. Between 1890 and 1940, department stores revolutionized selling…
Crazy for Bargains
Between the 1890s and 1930s, anglophone politicians, journalists, novelists, and other commentators living in western, central, and eastern Canada drew upon established connections among greed, luxury, hysteria, and femininity to describe women who went shopping as irrational. Their motivations for doing so included their desires to assuage feelings of guilt about increased abundance; articulate anger caused by spousal conflicts over money; asser…
Virtue and Vice
This article explores references to commodities and consumption in English language fiction either written by Canadians or published in Canada between 1890 and 1940. It confirms and expands existing research into Canadian consumer history by showing that consumer themes were central to authors’ portrayals of class, gender, and morality. Suggesting that fiction offers important historical perspectives on English Canadian culture, it demonstrates t…
Retail Nation
Introduction: Canadian Consumer Society 1 Rise of Mass Retail 2 Creating Modern Canada 3 Fathers of Mass Merchandising 4 Crafting the Consumer Workforce 5 Shopping, Pleasure, and Power 6 Working at the Heart of Consumption 7 Criticizing the Big Stores Epilogue: Canadian Institutions? Notes Bibliography Index
Kate Haulman, The Politics of Fashion in Eighteenth Century America
Conservative Consumerism
Whereas most historical research into Canadian women’s consumer advocacy presents that activism as progressive, many Canadian women have organized as consumers to serve conservative ends. References to consumer issues that appeared in Woman’s Century, the official magazine of the National Council of Women of Canada between 1914 and 1921, reveal that the magazine’s contributors advocated consumer activism to protect their own pocketbooks and to ad…
Consumers in the Bush
Mary Quayle Innis
Mary Quayle Innis (1899–1972) was instrumental in forging the career and legacy of her husband, Harold Adams Innis (1894–1952). Her labours on his behalf included typing, editing, writing, researching, preparing indices, curating his papers, revising his publications, and bringing his manuscripts to press. Quayle also ran errands, shopped, did laundry, prepared food, and provided care for Innis and their four children. She further often networked…
Purchasing Power
Why do Canadians consume? This book explores the meanings of consumption in early-twentieth-century Canada, demonstrating that many Canadians have long viewed consumer goods as central to their visions of belonging, identity, and citizenship.
Eating Clean
Between 1891 and 1914, western Canada’s largest sugar manufacturer – BC Sugar – constructed a racialized discourse of food cleanliness. This discourse argued that Chinese-made sugars were contaminated while Canadian-made sugars were clean. Through an analysis of this discourse, this article argues that BC Sugar constructed a purity/polluted binary that suggested that white consumers’ racial purity was threatened by Chinese-made sugars. It then li…
Anti-Black Racism in Food Advertising
Between 1947 and 1958, B.C. Sugar—western Canada’s largest sugar manufacturer—ran six major advertising campaigns that depicted Black people as laborers on sugarcane plantations. One of these campaigns, moreover, played upon offensive stereotypes of Black men as happy-go-lucky, childlike, and suited for manual labor. Analyzing the reach, content, and significances of these campaigns, this article suggests that despite increased civil and human ri…
Exploring Postwar Consumption
Is Cane Sugar “Canadian”? The Disavowal of Global Lives and Lands within Canadian Sugar Marketing
This article considers the history of global supply chains in relation to Canadian sugar marketing. Now a dietary staple, refined sugar in Canada today is plentiful and affordable. Ninety percent of this sugar is made from imported cane. Yet within Canada little public awareness exists regarding cane sugars’ countries of origin. Inquiring into how Canadian refiners have portrayed their cane sugars’ provenance, this article sketches out the histor…
Rethinking Feminist History and Theory
Capitalism and Atrocity
In The World of Sugar, Ulbe Bosma provides a sweeping and detailed overview of the global history of sugar. Beginning with the origins of granulated sugar in India 2,500 years ago, the book covers its spread throughout Asia, Europe, the Americas, and, in the twentieth century, Africa. Bosma's focus is on refined sucrose, the commodity today we usually refer to as sugar. For most of world history this product has been derived from sugarcane, thoug…
Political science (14 works) · Canadian Identity and History (11 works) · Law (11 works) · Business (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Advertising (6 works) · Economics (5 works) · History (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Media studies (4 works)