We thank in particular the librarians and archivists who assisted the editors and authors at Acadia, McGill, and Queen's Universities; at the Universities of Toronto, Saskatchewan, and British Columbia; at the Smith College Archives in Northampton, Massachusetts; and at the National Archives, the Archives of Ontario, the Metropolitan Toronto Library, and the City of Toronto. [...] Indeed, one purpose of the collection is to call into question the legitimacy of the amateur/professional dichotomy as applied to the term 'historian.' The professionalization of historical practice in the last decades of the nineteenth and early years of the twentieth century formalized a defini- tion of history that privileged male experience and reserved most per- manent academic jobs for unive [...] But, rather than a partisan chronicle of heroic deeds designed to inspire the ideals of loyalty and patriotism in the nation's male and female citizens, acad- emic historians began to view mastery of the 'discipline' of history, and the empirical world view that underwrote it, as necessary precursors to a career in the field.6 Women as a group were not seen as fully part of this new historical pro [...] In the second volume of her auto- biography, the Australian-born scholar Jill Ker Conway, who was one of the first women given tenure in history at the University of Toronto, recollects the moment when she first recognized herself as a historian: In the fall of 1968, freed from the albatross of my dissertation, I suddenly realized that I was serious about being a historian. [...] Smyth's study of Roman Catholic women religious is based on records that they themselves cre- ated for a number of purposes: to celebrate the achievements of the present and the past; to build a sense of community over time; and to examine the role of providence in history and in the lives of their orders.
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- C74 1997eb
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Table of Contents
- Contents 8
- Illustrations 10
- Acknowledgments 12
- 1 Introduction: Locating Women in the Work of History 16
- Part 1: Community Building 36
- 2 Cultivating a Love of Canada through History: Agnes Maule Machar, 1837-1927 38
- 3 Women's Rights and Duties: Sarah Anne Curzon and the Politics of Canadian History 64
- 4 Ontario Women's Institutes and the Work of Local History 88
- Part 2: Transitions 112
- 5 'Writing Teaches Us Our Mysteries': Women Religious Recording and Writing History 114
- 6 'I walk my own track in life & no mere male can bump me off it': Constance Lindsay Skinner and the Work of History 142
- 7 Isabel Skelton: Precursor to Canadian Cultural History 177
- Part 3: The Academy 208
- 8 Laying Siege to the History Professoriate 210
- 9 A View from the Front Steps: Esther Clark Wright and the Making of a Maritime Historian 246
- 10 Kathleen Wood-Legh: A Canadian in Cambridge 267
- Part 4: New Departures 284
- 11 Women's History: Founding a New Field 286
- Contributors 311
- Index 313
- A 313
- B 313
- C 313
- D 314
- E 314
- F 315
- G 315
- H 315
- I 316
- J 316
- K 316
- L 316
- M 316
- N 317
- O 317
- P 317
- Q 318
- R 318
- S 318
- T 319
- U 319
- V 320
- W 320
- Y 321
- Z 321
