Changing lives : women in Northern Ontario /


edited by Margaret Kechnie and Marge Reitsma-Street.
Bok Engelsk 1996 · Electronic books.
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1 online resource (363 p.)
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Description based upon print version of record.. - Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Voices of Five Women; Dead Letter (Barbara's Voice); Making Pictures (Jeanette's Voice); When Push Comes to Shove (Marielle's Voice); When Feathers Fly (Gina's Voice); Mining (Joy's Voice); Part One: Understanding Diversity; 1 A Census of Northern Ontario Women; 2 Nokomis and the Changing Times in Her Life: Interview with a Woman Elder; 3 Women of Quiet Strength: Nishnaabe-kwek Mothers and Daughters; 4 Ukrainian Women in the Sudbury Region; 5 Traditions/Transitions/Translation: Hispanic Women in a Northern Community. - 15 ""Who Do You Think Did the Cooking?"" Baba in the ClassroomPart Three: Daily Stresses; 16 ""You Never Give Up Worrying"": The Consequences of a Hazardous Mine Environment for Working-Class Families in Timmins, 1915-1950; 17 Women and Poverty in Northern Ontario; 18 La pauvreté des Franco-Ontariennes de 45 à 64 ans du Nord-Est del'Ontario; 19 A Study of Violence and Isolation Experiences of Northern Women; 20 Women's Health in Northern Ontario: An Introductory Geographical Appraisal; 21 Health Issues for Women in Northeastern Ontario; Part Four: Sources of Change. - 22 The Women's Institutes in Northern Ontario, 1905-1930: Imitators or Innovators?23 The Northeastern Ontario Women's Conference 1981-1984: A Conversation on Learning to Act; 24 Northern Ontario Women's Centres: Women of Vision, Women of Change; 25 Getting it Together: Women and Co-operative Housing in Northern Ontario; 26 Le Collectif - un médium pour améliorer la condition des femmes francophones; 27 Women and Distance Education in Northeastern Ontario; 28 Women in Science at a Northern Ontario University: A 35-year Perspective; 29 Young Women and Feminism in Northern Ontario; Notes. - 6 The Experiences of Black Women Across Northern Ontario7 Invisible Lives, Visible Strength: Stories of Northern Ontario Lesbians; Part Two: The Worlds of Work; 8 Finnish Women's Experience in Northern Ontario Lumber Camps, 1920-1939; 9 Elva Sullivan, a Teacher in Northern Ontario, 1931-1939; 10 ""Every Miner Had a Mother""; 11 Working at Inco: Women in a Downsizing Male Industry; 12 Women's Work is (Almost) Never Done ... (By Anyone Else); 13 Successful Women Entrepreneurs in Northeastern Ontario; 14 First Nations Community Economic Corporation. - Contributors. - An examination of the lives of women who influenced, and were influenced by, northern Ontario.
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1-281-96242-2. - 1-282-80900-8. - 1-55488-129-3. - 1-77070-076-5. - 9786611962425. - 9786612809002

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