Joan Sangster
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 512199 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Joan Sangster |
| PRENOMES | Joan |
| SOBRENOME | Sangster |
| ASSINATURA | SANGSTER J |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Trent University |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 73 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 106 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 72 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1978 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
A Timely Exhibit in a Gem of an Archive
Kim Kelly, Fight Like Hell
Essays in the History of Canadian Law, Volume XII
Drawing on engaging case studies, Essays in the History of Canadian Law brings the law to life. The contributors to this collection provide rich historical and social context for each case, unravelling the process of legal decision-making and explaining the impact of the law on the people involved in legal disputes. Examining the law not simply as legislation and institutions, but as discourse, practice, symbols, rhetoric, and language, the book'…
Prison Activism on Trial
This article uses the 1978–79 trial of Vancouver prison activists and feminists Betsy Wood and Gay Hoon as a means of exploring the changing nature of feminist prison activism in Canada during the 1970s. The trial is placed in its historical context, with a focus on contemporary discussions about reform, abolition, and the carceral state, particularly in the feminist press and feminist organizations. The Wood/Hoon trial is explored through an ana…
Waitresses in Action
In the 1970s, women in Toronto created the Waitresses Action Committee to protest the introduction of a "differential" or lower minimum wage for wait staff serving alcohol. Their campaign was part of their broader feminist critique of women's exploitation and the gendered and sexualized nature of waitressing. Influenced by their origins in the Wages for Housework campaign, they stressed the linkages between women's unpaid work in the home and the…
From the Royal Commission on the Status of Women to the National Action Committee
éducation, travail domestique, garde d'enfantsThe roundtable in this issue, "From the Royal Commission on the Status of Women to the National Action Committee," marks the 50th anniversary of the founding of the National Action Committee on the Status of Women (nac).In April of 1972, over 500 feminists met in Toronto for the "Strategy for Change" conference sponsored by the National Ad Hoc Committee on the Status of Women.Some Ad Hoc Committee org…
Demanding Equality
For one hundred years women fashioned different dreams of social transformation in their search for equality, autonomy, and dignity; yet what is Canadian feminism? Demanding Equality offers illustrations of feminist thought and organizing from mid-nineteenth-century, Enlightenment-inspired writing to the multi-issue movement of the 1980s. Broadening our definition of feminism – and recognizing that its political, cultural, and social dimensions a…
Criminalizing the Colonized
Over the past decade, Aboriginal women’s conflicts with the law and their plight within the penal and child welfare systems have received increasing media and government attention. Framed by the political demands of Native communities for self-government, and fuelled by disillusionment with a criminal justice system that has resolutely failed Native peoples—both as victims of violence and as defendants in the courts—government studies and royal c…
Forty Years of Women’s History in the Canadian Historical Review
This chr Presents is a consideration of the historiographical evolution of Canadian women’s history, with a focus upon articles from the back catalogue of the Canadian Historical Review
“Pardon Tales” from Magistrate’s Court
Annual General Meeting of the Canadian Committee on Labour History, 9 June 2021, Convened virtually from various locations across Turtle Island
The Legacy of Leo Panitch
The shock of Leo Panitch's untimely death in December of 2020 has worn off; our sense of profound loss has not.In the days that followed his passing, emails, editorials, obituaries, and forums appeared describing his immense intellectual, political, and personal influence.These tributes have captured something of his legacy, while also articulating the sadness experienced by so many of his friends and colleagues.Articles assessing his global infl…
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E. Sylvia Pankhurst, edited with an Introduction by Katherine Connelly, A Suffragette in America
Canadian Committee on Labour History Annual General Meeting 16 June 2020 Convened virtually from various locations across Turtle Island
From Career Girl to Sexy Stewardess
This article examines three popular renditions of female flight attendants in Canada and the United States in teen fiction, film, and advertising, with attention to representational shifts from the 1940s to the 1970s. Our analysis demonstrates that the more sexualized image of the 1960s was a significant departure from the more complicated immediate postwar presentation of the flight attendant as a resourceful and capable career girl, albeit one …
Note de la rédaction
Note de la Rédaction Charles Smith and Joan Sangster Transitions. Si l'enseignement et la recherche sur l'histoire du travail et de la classe ouvrière ont eu un thème moteur au cours de la dernière décennie, il s'agit clairement de gérer de vastes transitions sociales et politiques. Née des mouvements de la nouvelle gauche dans les années 1960 et au début des années 1970, l'histoire du travail a mis au jour une communauté dynamique de jeunes univ…
Exporting suffrage
While the Canadian suffrage movement followed its own distinct pathway to full voting rights for women, it was deeply influenced by British ideas which were transplanted, translated and reinterpreted to fit Canadian social conditions. The Canadian media assumed WSPU speaking tours were most significant, and these did generate publicity for the Canadian movement. However, British influences were far more diverse. The transfer of ideas associated w…
Canada and the First World War, Second Edition
This book comprises a collection of original essays on Canada’s experience during the First World War. The essays were written by more than a dozen of Canada’s leading historians in honour of Robert Craig Brown, a historian who has had an important impact on the writing of history in Canada.
One Hundred Years of Struggle
On the eve of celebrating the 100th anniversary of women’s right to vote in Canada comes a book, the first in a series on women’s suffrage and the struggle for democracy, by acclaimed historian Joan Sangster. The achievement of the vote in 1918 is often presented as a triumphant moment in the onward, upward advancement of Canadian women. In this beautifully illustrated book, acclaimed historian Joan Sangster looks beyond the shiny rhetoric of ann…
Thigh in the Sky”
This article uses a case study of a highly publicized 1970 controversy over Canadian Pacific Air Lines’ flight attendant uniforms—specifically, a switch from mini to midi skirt—as a case study in business-labor relations concerning the regulation of women workers’ bodily appearance. Using company and union records and employing a historical, materialist, and feminist analysis, we trace how notions of aesthetic and emotional labor changed over tim…
The Meanings of Mercy
This article analyzes the 1948 case of a British war bride convicted of manslaughter in the death of her abusive husband as a means of exploring the connection between social views of domestic violence and the legal treatment of wives charged with spousal murder. The case of Jean McAllister allows us an entrée to the legal responses to women's use of violence against abusive partners in the period in between “first” and “second” wave feminism. By…
Beards and Bloomers
This paper examines union grievances dealing with the body, appearance and demeanour fought by the Canadian Air Line Flight Attendants Association, on behalf of its female and male members over a 30‐year period. Taking a historical, materialist‐feminist approach, we examine how workers used the grievance system to resist regulations they believed contradicted their right to dignified labour. We ask how and why bodily regulation differed for men a…
Creating popular histories
Feminist History in Canada
This collection emerged from a conference organized by the Canadian Committee on Women's History in 2010, one of a few periodic national conferences since the early 1990s that have taken stock of t
Regulating Girls and Women
Telling our stories
This paper examines some of the current methodological and theoretical debates encountered by feminist historians utilising oral history, with illustrations from oral history research on wage-earning women in a small Canadian manufacturing city. After reviewing some of the literature which has indicated how we might use oral history as a means of exploring the construction of historical memory, the article examines some of the ethical questions i…
Through Feminist Eyes
I n t roduc t Ion r ef l ec t Ions on t h I rt y y e a r s of Wom en 's h Istory I did not grow up wanting to be a historian.As a well-socialized child of the 1950s, my early fantasies centred more on the frilliest wedding dress possible.Luckily for me, I abandoned the 'say yes to the dress' dream for a life in history.After an undergraduate career in which I managed to avoid Canadian history almost completely and focused instead on African subje…
Making a Fur Coat
This article historicizes the making of a fur coat in post-1940 Canada, exploring the social relationships and forms of labour that made the fur coat possible: skinning, sewing, and selling. Focusing especially on women's labour, the author examines the significance of Aboriginal women's work, often unwaged, and seldom recognized in many fur-trade sources, as well as the way in which racial constructions of Aboriginal women intersected with the a…
Women and the Politics of Class
Dreams of Equality
Canadian women on the political left in the first half of the twentieth century fought with varying degrees of commitment for women's rights. Women's dreams of equality were in part a vision of economic and class equality, though they also represented profound desires for equality with men - both within their own parties and in the larger society. In both the Communist Party of Canada and the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation, a male-dominated…
Beards and Bloomers
This paper examines union grievances dealing with the body, appearance and demeanour fought by the Canadian Air Line Flight Attendants Association, on behalf of its female and male members over a 30‐year period. Taking a historical, materialist‐feminist approach, we examine how workers used the grievance system to resist regulations they believed contradicted their right to dignified labour. We ask how and why bodily regulation differed for men a…
California Red
A Link between Labour and Learning
This paper traces the rise and fall in Ontario of the Workers Educational Association (WEA), a voluntary association whose main purpose was to organize inexpensive, non-credit night classes taught by university professors for the working class. The Association was an offshoot of the British WEA. ln Ontario the main impetus for establishing an Association in 1918 came from members of Toronto's intellectual elite. One of their aims was to teach lab…
We No Longer Respect the Law
In 1967 a strike of marginalized women workers in small-town Ontario became a cause celebre for the Ontario and national labour movements due to the employers’ use of an ex parte injunction to break the strike, and the trade union movement’s subsequent legal challenge to that injunction. This article explores the initial Tilco strike in Peterborough, the ensuing attempts by the labour movement to support the striking local of the Textile Workers …
She Is Hostile to Our Ways”
When industrial schools were initially proposed in late nineteenth-century Canada, they were perceived to be a common solution for the neglected and delinquent working-class boy of the urban slums and for the Aboriginal boy in need of similar education, discipline, and moral and vocational training. This undertaking briefly encapsulated the twinned aims of Canada's nation-building project: to civilize and acculturate both the poor and the coloniz…
Feminism and the Making of Canadian Working-Class History
This paper explores the writing of women's labour history in Canada over the last thirty years. Three interconnected forces have shaped the contours of this intellectual production: the course of feminist, Left, and labour organizing; trends in international social theory; and directions in Canadian historiography. Feminist challenges to the initially 'masculinist' shape of working-class history, along with more recent calls to integrate race and…
Women and Wage Labour in Australia and Canada, 1880-1980
A century of women's work history in Australia and Canada reveals both similarities and contrasts. Women workers in both countries have faced persistent occupational segregation and lower pay, justified by the family ideal of male breadwinner and the accompanying perception of women's paid labour as secondary, less skilled and transient. While Canada's female labour force has historically demonstrated significant proportion of immigrants from cou…
The Softball Solution
This article uses a case study of an Ontario factory manufacturing clocks and watches to explore the way in which industrial paternalism was used as an industrial relations strategy by both management and workers. I argue that paternalism, in this case an amalgam of 19th-century traditional paternalism and 20th-century welfare capitalism, was premised on unequal economic relations, and on the ideological hegemony of management, but it was also, v…
The Communist Party and the Woman Question, 1922-1929
THIS PAPER ANALYZES the Communist Party of Canada's view of the woman question, the role women played in the party, and the party's successes and failures in its attempts to organize working-class women. The Communist Party's view of the woman question was shaped by the advice of the USSR and the Communist International, as well as by the party's social base and the political understanding of its own membership. The Communist Party's Women's Depa…
From the Royal Commission on the Status of Women to the National Action Committee
éducation, travail domestique, garde d'enfantsThe roundtable in this issue, "From the Royal Commission on the Status of Women to the National Action Committee," marks the 50th anniversary of the founding of the National Action Committee on the Status of Women (nac).In April of 1972, over 500 feminists met in Toronto for the "Strategy for Change" conference sponsored by the National Ad Hoc Committee on the Status of Women.Some Ad Hoc Committee org…
Just Horseplay? Masculinity and Workplace Grievances in Fordist Canada, 1947–70s
This article examines men’s grievances concerning horseplay, profanity, alcohol, and violence, primarily in their legal arbitrated form, as a means of probing the gendered nature of the Fordist system of grievance arbitration. Horseplay grievances, for instance, were infused with ideas about masculinity, with the majority dealing with male-on-male activities, usually among workers. In arbitration discourse, horseplay and violence were naturalized…
Gendering Labour History Across Borders
This article explores the evolution of a new women's labour history in the post-1960s era, with attention to the similarities and differences characterizing scholarship in Britain, Canada and the United States. The debates the field animated, and how these shifted over time as the political and intellectual context changed, are critically and comparatively examined. By tracing the movement of ideas, themes and inspiration across borders, one can …
Beyond the Vote
A Woman's Place
The 1907 Bell Telephone Strike
This article analyzes the causes and significance of the 1907 Toronto Bell Telephone strike, which aroused considerable public sympathy and resulted in a Royal Commission. The author discusses the attitudes of the Bell Telephone Company, the government (especially Mackenzie King), middle class opinion and organized labour towards these women workers. She also examines some of the reasons for the operators' failure to make substantial gains or org…
Annual General Meeting of the Canadian Committee on Labour History, 9 June 2021, Convened virtually from various locations across Turtle Island
The Legacy of Leo Panitch
The shock of Leo Panitch's untimely death in December of 2020 has worn off; our sense of profound loss has not.In the days that followed his passing, emails, editorials, obituaries, and forums appeared describing his immense intellectual, political, and personal influence.These tributes have captured something of his legacy, while also articulating the sadness experienced by so many of his friends and colleagues.Articles assessing his global infl…
Note de la rédaction
Thigh in the Sky”
This article uses a case study of a highly publicized 1970 controversy over Canadian Pacific Air Lines’ flight attendant uniforms—specifically, a switch from mini to midi skirt—as a case study in business-labor relations concerning the regulation of women workers’ bodily appearance. Using company and union records and employing a historical, materialist, and feminist analysis, we trace how notions of aesthetic and emotional labor changed over tim…
The 1907 Bell Telephone Strike
This article analyzes the causes and significance of the 1907 Toronto Bell Telephone strike, which aroused considerable public sympathy and resulted in a Royal Commission. The author discusses the attitudes of the Bell Telephone Company, the government (especially Mackenzie King), middle class opinion and organized labour towards these women workers. She also examines some of the reasons for the operators' failure to make substantial gains or org…
A Link between Labour and Learning
This paper traces the rise and fall in Ontario of the Workers Educational Association (WEA), a voluntary association whose main purpose was to organize inexpensive, non-credit night classes taught by university professors for the working class. The Association was an offshoot of the British WEA. ln Ontario the main impetus for establishing an Association in 1918 came from members of Toronto's intellectual elite. One of their aims was to teach lab…
The Communist Party and the Woman Question, 1922-1929
THIS PAPER ANALYZES the Communist Party of Canada's view of the woman question, the role women played in the party, and the party's successes and failures in its attempts to organize working-class women. The Communist Party's view of the woman question was shaped by the advice of the USSR and the Communist International, as well as by the party's social base and the political understanding of its own membership. The Communist Party's Women's Depa…
A Woman's Place
Dreams of Equality
In Dreams of Equality , Joan Sangster chronicles in fascinating detail the first tentative stages of a politically aware women's movement in Canada, from the time of women's suffrage to the 1950's when the CPC went into decline and the CCF began to experience the changes that would evolve into the New Democratic Party a decade later.
Beyond the Vote
Dreams of Equality
Canadian women on the political left in the first half of the twentieth century fought with varying degrees of commitment for women's rights. Women's dreams of equality were in part a vision of economic and class equality, though they also represented profound desires for equality with men - both within their own parties and in the larger society. In both the Communist Party of Canada and the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation, a male-dominated…
Beyond the Vote
‘Pardon Tales’ from Magistrate's Court
The Softball Solution
This article uses a case study of an Ontario factory manufacturing clocks and watches to explore the way in which industrial paternalism was used as an industrial relations strategy by both management and workers. I argue that paternalism, in this case an amalgam of 19th-century traditional paternalism and 20th-century welfare capitalism, was premised on unequal economic relations, and on the ideological hegemony of management, but it was also, v…
Telling our stories
This paper examines some of the current methodological and theoretical debates encountered by feminist historians utilising oral history, with illustrations from oral history research on wage-earning women in a small Canadian manufacturing city. After reviewing some of the literature which has indicated how we might use oral history as a means of exploring the construction of historical memory, the article examines some of the ethical questions i…
Earning Respect
Earning Respect examines the lives of white and blue-collar women workers in Peterborough during this period and notes the emerging changes in their work lives, as working daughters gradually became working mothers.
Beyond Dichotomies
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
Women Workers, Employment Policy and the State
In 1963, the Ontario Government established a Women's Bureau within the Department of Labour to do research, public relations work, and policy development relating to working women in the province. This article examines the early evolution of the Women's Bureau from 1963 to 1970 assessing the reasons for its establishment and the successes and failures of its early programs designed to aid working women. The Bureau urged the government to conside…
Reconsidering Dichotomies
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
Women and Wage Labour in Australia and Canada, 1880-1980
A century of women's work history in Australia and Canada reveals both similarities and contrasts. Women workers in both countries have faced persistent occupational segregation and lower pay, justified by the family ideal of male breadwinner and the accompanying perception of women's paid labour as secondary, less skilled and transient. While Canada's female labour force has historically demonstrated significant proportion of immigrants from cou…
Earning Respect
California Red
Seeking the highest good
Criminalizing the Colonized
This article examines the roots of Aboriginal women’s overincarceration in twentieth-century Ontario, arguing that this ‘tragedy of recent vintage’ became especially apparent during and immediately following the Second World War. Drawing on the records of the only Ontario Reformatory for Women, the Mercer, the article asks why overincarceration emerged, how legal and penal authorities explained Aboriginal women’s ‘crimes,’ and in what ways Native…
Masking and Unmasking the Sexual Abuse of Children
This article explores the legal and social understandings of incest in early-twentieth-century Canada, examining the way in which sexual abuse was identified in sensational court cases but ideologically masked in social consciousness. First, the legal treatment of incest is examined through court cases, with special focus on one case that animated a grand jury report on a rural area where incest and violence supposedly flourished. Second, the gra…
Feminism and the Making of Canadian Working-Class History
This paper explores the writing of women's labour history in Canada over the last thirty years. Three interconnected forces have shaped the contours of this intellectual production: the course of feminist, Left, and labour organizing; trends in international social theory; and directions in Canadian historiography. Feminist challenges to the initially 'masculinist' shape of working-class history, along with more recent calls to integrate race and…
Honorary Doctor of Laws Degree for Madeline Parent
Retorts, Runaways and Riots
Tamara Myers, Joan Sangster; Retorts, Runaways and Riots: Patterns of Resistance in Canadian Reform Schools for Girls, 1930–60, Journal of Social History
The Woman Worker, 1926-1929
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