Lynne Marks
Biographic Data
| ID | 3841472 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lynne Marks |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lynne |
| FAMILY NAME | Marks |
| SIGNATURE | MARKS L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Victoria |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6797-4166 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Unpaid Work and Feminist Alliances across Difference: Three Local Studies of Wages for Housework Organizing in Canada
Unpaid Work and Feminist Alliances across Difference: Three Local Studies of Wages for Housework Organizing in Canada. An article from journal Labour / Le Travail (Volume 97, Spring 2026, pp. 9-368), on Érudit.
A Great Revolutionary Wave: Women and the Vote in British Columbia . Lara Campbell
Find information about UTP Journals. University of Toronto Press is Canada’s leading academic publisher and one of the largest university presses in North America, with particular strengths in the social sciences, humanities, and business. The Book Publishing Division is widely recognized in Canada for its strength in history, political science, sociology, Indigenous studies, and cultural studies. Internationally, UTP is a leading publisher of me…
Forum Introduction: Challenging Orthodoxies: Religion, Secularism and Feminism Among English‐Canadian Women, 1960s–1980s
While historians have explored the links between first‐wave feminism and religion, particularly Christianity, in considerable detail in both Canada and the United States, the nature of the relationship between religion, irreligion and second‐wave feminism has received little scholarly attention. This forum explores the complex and troubled intersections between second‐wave feminism, religion and irreligion among Jewish women, both feminist and no…
In the Forefront and on the Margins: Jews, Secularism and Women's Liberation in Ontario and British Columbia, 1960s–1980s
This article examines Jewish feminists in the British Columbia and Ontario women's movements, particularly among radical and socialist feminists. Feminists within these movements saw organised religion as patriarchal, hostile to the interests of women and thus to be rejected. Using archival and oral history sources, we argue that looking more closely at Jewish feminists within second‐wave feminism can help us to more clearly understand the nature…
Infidels and the Damn Churches: Irreligion and Religion in Settler British Columbia
British Columbia is at the forefront of a secularizing movement in the English-speaking world. Nearly half its residents claim no religious affiliation, and the province has the highest rate of unbelief or religious indifference in Canada. Infidels and the Damn Churches explores the historical roots of this phenomenon from the 1880s to the First World War. Lynne Marks reveals that class and racial tensions fuelled irreligion in a world populated …
A Job That Should Be Respected: Contested visions of motherhood and English Canada's second wave women's movements, 1970-1990
This article focuses on the forgotten voices of marginalized feminist mothers—those active in welfare rights groups. These activists were primarily poor single mothers who understood motherhood differently from more mainstream feminists. Whilst they echoed mainstream feminist demands for childcare, they also supported women's right to stay at home with their children, emphasizing the role of the state. This presented a serious class-based critiqu…
Ontario and British Columbia Welfare Policy: Variants on a Neoliberal Theme
This article suggests that the nature of the neoliberal state needs to be more fully explored. Our research on two regional welfare policies in Canada over the past three decades reveals that neoliberal regional states can differ quite remarkably in how they include or exclude their poorer citizens from receiving welfare. By exploring the dramatic changes to welfare in British Columbia and Ontario, we argue that the former follows a “purer” neoli…
Challenging Binaries: Working-Class Women and Lived Religion in English Canada and the United States
This essay argues that while historians of working-class women have generally developed a complex and multi-faceted approach to studying their subjects, that religion has remained largely invisible in such studies. This essay argues for the value of incorporating religion as a category of analysis in the study of working-class women. It provides some discussion of absences in the existing literature, primarily using American and English Canadian …
Community Psychology in Africa: The Way Forward
This article offers a reflective comment on the topics presented in this special issue. These topics address the concept of community psychology from various perspectives presented in three thematic categories: The states and form of community psychology; the application of community psychology to vulnerable groups and the concept of service delivery and methodologies. The author highlights trends gleaned from the articles, implicitly or explicit…
Hallelujah Lads & Lasses: Remaking the Salvation Army in America, 1880-1930
In Hallelujah Lads & Lasses, Lillian Taiz presents a clear and comprehensive study of the historical development of the Salvation Army in its formative years in the United States. In its early years, it was a rowdy working-class evangelical movement; during the twentieth century, it became primarily a social service organization with a more sedate religious wing that served upwardly mobile second-generation Salvationists. Taiz looks closely at th…
A Fragment of Heaven on Earth”? Religion, Gender, and Family in Turn-of-the-Century Canadian Church Periodicals
This article examines the ideals and anxieties about gender, family, and religion expressed in nineteen turn-of-the-century Canadian Christian journals. This article reveals the existence of a range of common ideals across denominations. Idealization of the Christian home was shared as was a profoundly unrealistic idealization of the Christian role of mothers. While religious anxieties were similar in many ways across denominations and regions, t…
Railing, Tattling, and General Rumour: Gossip, Gender, and Church Regulation in Upper Canada
In the first half of the nineteenth century in Upper Canada, Baptist and Presbyterian churches disciplined their members for failure to adhere to a ‘Godly’ code of behaviour. Proper speech was a significant part of this code. Church members were disciplined for improper speech: for spreading gossip or rumour, or for ‘railing’ against the church or fellow church members. In the church communities of Upper Canada, however, speech was not simply som…
Exploring Regional Diversity in Patterns of Religious Participation; Canada in 1901
Key Words: Canadareligious participationfamilyatheism
Revivals and Roller Rinks: Religion, Leisure, and Identity in Late-Nineteenth-Century Small-Town Ontario
Based primarily on a study of the towns of Thorold, Campbellford, and Ingersoll this investigation seeks as well to determine the nature of commonalities and differences in patterns of participation in religious and leisure activities within both middle- and working-class families.
Beyond Purity: A Response To Sangster
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
Indigent Committees and Ladies Benevolent Societies: Intersections of Public and Private Poor Relief in Late Nineteenth Century Small Town Ontario
(1995). Indigent Committees and Ladies Benevolent Societies: Intersections of Public and Private Poor Relief in Late Nineteenth Century Small Town Ontario. Studies in Political Economy: Vol. 47, No. 1, pp. 61-87
The Knights of Labor and the Salvation Army: Religion and Working-Class Culture in Ontario, 1882-1890
In the 1880S both the Knights of Labor, and the Salvation Army, which in this period was an exclusively revivalistic movement, drew mass support from Ontario's working class. This paper looks at the nature of working class support for the two movements, noting that the Salvation Army was more likely to attract working class women and unskilled men, while the Knights were most popular among skilled men. The possibility of overlap in membership is …
Women in the Administrative Revolution: The Feminization of Clerical Work
Ontario and British Columbia Welfare Policy: Variants on a Neoliberal Theme
This article suggests that the nature of the neoliberal state needs to be more fully explored. Our research on two regional welfare policies in Canada over the past three decades reveals that neoliberal regional states can differ quite remarkably in how they include or exclude their poorer citizens from receiving welfare. By exploring the dramatic changes to welfare in British Columbia and Ontario, we argue that the former follows a “purer” neoli…
A Job That Should Be Respected: Contested visions of motherhood and English Canada's second wave women's movements, 1970-1990
This article focuses on the forgotten voices of marginalized feminist mothers—those active in welfare rights groups. These activists were primarily poor single mothers who understood motherhood differently from more mainstream feminists. Whilst they echoed mainstream feminist demands for childcare, they also supported women's right to stay at home with their children, emphasizing the role of the state. This presented a serious class-based critiqu…
The Knights of Labor and the Salvation Army: Religion and Working-Class Culture in Ontario, 1882-1890
In the 1880S both the Knights of Labor, and the Salvation Army, which in this period was an exclusively revivalistic movement, drew mass support from Ontario's working class. This paper looks at the nature of working class support for the two movements, noting that the Salvation Army was more likely to attract working class women and unskilled men, while the Knights were most popular among skilled men. The possibility of overlap in membership is …
A Fragment of Heaven on Earth”? Religion, Gender, and Family in Turn-of-the-Century Canadian Church Periodicals
This article examines the ideals and anxieties about gender, family, and religion expressed in nineteen turn-of-the-century Canadian Christian journals. This article reveals the existence of a range of common ideals across denominations. Idealization of the Christian home was shared as was a profoundly unrealistic idealization of the Christian role of mothers. While religious anxieties were similar in many ways across denominations and regions, t…
Indigent Committees and Ladies Benevolent Societies: Intersections of Public and Private Poor Relief in Late Nineteenth Century Small Town Ontario
(1995). Indigent Committees and Ladies Benevolent Societies: Intersections of Public and Private Poor Relief in Late Nineteenth Century Small Town Ontario. Studies in Political Economy: Vol. 47, No. 1, pp. 61-87
Women in the Administrative Revolution: The Feminization of Clerical Work
Women in the Administrative Revolution: The Feminization of Clerical Work
The Knights of Labor and the Salvation Army: Religion and Working-Class Culture in Ontario, 1882-1890
In the 1880S both the Knights of Labor, and the Salvation Army, which in this period was an exclusively revivalistic movement, drew mass support from Ontario's working class. This paper looks at the nature of working class support for the two movements, noting that the Salvation Army was more likely to attract working class women and unskilled men, while the Knights were most popular among skilled men. The possibility of overlap in membership is …
Indigent Committees and Ladies Benevolent Societies: Intersections of Public and Private Poor Relief in Late Nineteenth Century Small Town Ontario
(1995). Indigent Committees and Ladies Benevolent Societies: Intersections of Public and Private Poor Relief in Late Nineteenth Century Small Town Ontario. Studies in Political Economy: Vol. 47, No. 1, pp. 61-87
Beyond Purity: A Response To Sangster
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
Revivals and Roller Rinks: Religion, Leisure, and Identity in Late-Nineteenth-Century Small-Town Ontario
Based primarily on a study of the towns of Thorold, Campbellford, and Ingersoll this investigation seeks as well to determine the nature of commonalities and differences in patterns of participation in religious and leisure activities within both middle- and working-class families.
Railing, Tattling, and General Rumour: Gossip, Gender, and Church Regulation in Upper Canada
In the first half of the nineteenth century in Upper Canada, Baptist and Presbyterian churches disciplined their members for failure to adhere to a ‘Godly’ code of behaviour. Proper speech was a significant part of this code. Church members were disciplined for improper speech: for spreading gossip or rumour, or for ‘railing’ against the church or fellow church members. In the church communities of Upper Canada, however, speech was not simply som…
Exploring Regional Diversity in Patterns of Religious Participation; Canada in 1901
Key Words: Canadareligious participationfamilyatheism
A Fragment of Heaven on Earth”? Religion, Gender, and Family in Turn-of-the-Century Canadian Church Periodicals
This article examines the ideals and anxieties about gender, family, and religion expressed in nineteen turn-of-the-century Canadian Christian journals. This article reveals the existence of a range of common ideals across denominations. Idealization of the Christian home was shared as was a profoundly unrealistic idealization of the Christian role of mothers. While religious anxieties were similar in many ways across denominations and regions, t…
Hallelujah Lads & Lasses: Remaking the Salvation Army in America, 1880-1930
In Hallelujah Lads & Lasses, Lillian Taiz presents a clear and comprehensive study of the historical development of the Salvation Army in its formative years in the United States. In its early years, it was a rowdy working-class evangelical movement; during the twentieth century, it became primarily a social service organization with a more sedate religious wing that served upwardly mobile second-generation Salvationists. Taiz looks closely at th…
Community Psychology in Africa: The Way Forward
This article offers a reflective comment on the topics presented in this special issue. These topics address the concept of community psychology from various perspectives presented in three thematic categories: The states and form of community psychology; the application of community psychology to vulnerable groups and the concept of service delivery and methodologies. The author highlights trends gleaned from the articles, implicitly or explicit…
Challenging Binaries: Working-Class Women and Lived Religion in English Canada and the United States
This essay argues that while historians of working-class women have generally developed a complex and multi-faceted approach to studying their subjects, that religion has remained largely invisible in such studies. This essay argues for the value of incorporating religion as a category of analysis in the study of working-class women. It provides some discussion of absences in the existing literature, primarily using American and English Canadian …
Ontario and British Columbia Welfare Policy: Variants on a Neoliberal Theme
This article suggests that the nature of the neoliberal state needs to be more fully explored. Our research on two regional welfare policies in Canada over the past three decades reveals that neoliberal regional states can differ quite remarkably in how they include or exclude their poorer citizens from receiving welfare. By exploring the dramatic changes to welfare in British Columbia and Ontario, we argue that the former follows a “purer” neoli…
A Job That Should Be Respected: Contested visions of motherhood and English Canada's second wave women's movements, 1970-1990
This article focuses on the forgotten voices of marginalized feminist mothers—those active in welfare rights groups. These activists were primarily poor single mothers who understood motherhood differently from more mainstream feminists. Whilst they echoed mainstream feminist demands for childcare, they also supported women's right to stay at home with their children, emphasizing the role of the state. This presented a serious class-based critiqu…
Infidels and the Damn Churches: Irreligion and Religion in Settler British Columbia
British Columbia is at the forefront of a secularizing movement in the English-speaking world. Nearly half its residents claim no religious affiliation, and the province has the highest rate of unbelief or religious indifference in Canada. Infidels and the Damn Churches explores the historical roots of this phenomenon from the 1880s to the First World War. Lynne Marks reveals that class and racial tensions fuelled irreligion in a world populated …
A Great Revolutionary Wave: Women and the Vote in British Columbia . Lara Campbell
Find information about UTP Journals. University of Toronto Press is Canada’s leading academic publisher and one of the largest university presses in North America, with particular strengths in the social sciences, humanities, and business. The Book Publishing Division is widely recognized in Canada for its strength in history, political science, sociology, Indigenous studies, and cultural studies. Internationally, UTP is a leading publisher of me…
Forum Introduction: Challenging Orthodoxies: Religion, Secularism and Feminism Among English‐Canadian Women, 1960s–1980s
While historians have explored the links between first‐wave feminism and religion, particularly Christianity, in considerable detail in both Canada and the United States, the nature of the relationship between religion, irreligion and second‐wave feminism has received little scholarly attention. This forum explores the complex and troubled intersections between second‐wave feminism, religion and irreligion among Jewish women, both feminist and no…
In the Forefront and on the Margins: Jews, Secularism and Women's Liberation in Ontario and British Columbia, 1960s–1980s
This article examines Jewish feminists in the British Columbia and Ontario women's movements, particularly among radical and socialist feminists. Feminists within these movements saw organised religion as patriarchal, hostile to the interests of women and thus to be rejected. Using archival and oral history sources, we argue that looking more closely at Jewish feminists within second‐wave feminism can help us to more clearly understand the nature…
Unpaid Work and Feminist Alliances across Difference: Three Local Studies of Wages for Housework Organizing in Canada
Unpaid Work and Feminist Alliances across Difference: Three Local Studies of Wages for Housework Organizing in Canada. An article from journal Labour / Le Travail (Volume 97, Spring 2026, pp. 9-368), on Érudit.
Sociology (14 works) · Political science (12 works) · Law (10 works) · Canadian Identity and History (9 works) · Gender Studies (9 works) · Politics (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Feminism (5 works) · History (5 works)