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Canadian Committee on Women's and Gender History – Comité canadien de l'histoire des femmes et du genre

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Summer 2022 IFRWH newsletter call out/Appel à la newsletter de l’IFRWH été 2022

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On July 9, 2022

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Hi CCWGH members! Bonjour aux membres du CCHFG!

(French follows / le français suit)

It is that time of year again when we want to hear from you about your research, so that we can promote it to our international colleagues. The International Federation for Research in Women’s History wants to know about your work on women’s and gender histories, so they can feature it in the upcoming newsletter.

We would love to hear from you about your: awards, books, journal articles, chapters, new research projects, blog posts, podcast interviews, newspaper editorials, Twitter presentations, and any other activities related to your work on women’s and gender history.

This is also a really good opportunity to highlight research and related work from grad students, contingent faculty, and early career researchers as well.

So please don’t hesitate to self-promote, or, even better, to promote someone else’s work.

Please send your contributions to our IFRWH rep, Maddie Knickerbocker (madeline.knickerbocker@kpu.ca) by July 26.

Nous voulons vous entendre parler de vos recherches, afin de pouvoir en faire la promotion auprès de nos collègues internationaux. La Fédération internationale pour la recherche en histoire des femmes souhaite en effet connaître vos travaux en histoires des femmes et du genre, afin de pouvoir les présenter dans son prochain bulletin.

Nous serions ravis de vous entendre parler de vos: prix, livres, articles de journaux, chapitres, nouveaux projets de recherche, articles de blog, interviews de podcast, éditoriaux de journaux, présentations Twitter, et toute autre activité liée à votre travail sur l’histoire des femmes et du genre.

C’est aussi une très bonne occasion de mettre en valeur les recherches et les travaux d’étudiants diplômés, de instructeurs précaires, et de chercheurs en début de carrière.

Alors n’hésitez pas à vous auto-promouvoir ou, mieux encore, à promouvoir le travail de quelqu’un d’autre.

Veuillez envoyer vos contributions à notre représentante de l’IFRWH, Maddie Knickerbocker (madeline.knickerbocker@kpu.ca) avant le 26 juillet.

In Memoriam – Wendy Mitchinson

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On December 17, 2021

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Reposted from the University of Waterloo.

Wendy PhilpottDistinguished Professor Emerita Wendy Mitchinson of the Department of History died on October 23, 2021. A pioneering women’s historian, she joined the University of Waterloo with tenure in 1985 and held the Canada Research Chair in Gender and Medical History from 2006 to 2013.

“Wendy was a trailblazer and valued colleague,” says Professor Dan Gorman, Department of History chair. “Her legacy is apparent in the many graduate students with whom she worked, and who are now pursuing careers both outside and within the academy.”

Mitchinson co-authored Canadian Women: A History, the first comprehensive study of women in Canada that earned her a YWCA Woman of Distinction Award. In addition to her groundbreaking books about the history of the medical treatment of women and one about the history of obesity in Canada — Fighting Fat: Canada 1920-1980, published in 2018 — she was the author of many articles and edited, co-edited and contributed essays to numerous books. Receiving two Royal Society of Canada Jason A. Hannah medals recognizing advancements in the history of medicine, she retired from her career at Waterloo in 2013 as a Distinguished Professor Emerita. In 2018, the Department of History hosted a Symposium recognizing Mitchinson’s many accomplishments.

“With characteristic elegance Wendy taught us all that world-class scholarship is at its best when balanced with loving partnership, enduring friendships, dedicated teaching, and generous sociability,” says Professor Julia Roberts from History. “She offered intellectual engagement and rigorous critique wrapped up in a bubble of good humour and understanding. I knew her as my MA supervisor, a dinner-party bon vivant, a friend, and a treasured colleague in UW History. I will miss her always.”

“I was privileged to be able to work with Wendy,” says Professor Jane Nicholas (St Jerome’s). “When I heard the news of her passing, I reached for one of her many books on my shelf, so I could hear her voice in my head once more. She pioneered new fields of study in Canadian history and wrote with remarkable clarity and force. Some of her work also captured her joyful sense of humour. One of these was her essay No One Becomes a Feminist to Be Appreciated. But we did appreciate her —and we do — for that and much more. Among her many accomplishments are those hard to capture in neat lines, such as the feminist community of scholars she helped to build and sustain. I join that community in grieving a remarkable scholar, a generous mentor, and a wise colleague.”

Wendy Mitchinson in office in 1991As a teacher, Mitchinson was a dedicated, supportive, and much-loved supervisor and mentor to scores of graduate students who established distinguished careers both within and outside the academy. According to her students, she was their role model, their guide, their support, their advocate, and their very best critic. In 2013, she won the University’s Award of Excellence in Graduate Supervision.

“As my master’s supervisor at UWaterloo in the late 1980s, Wendy was pivotal in my own turn towards women’s history as a transformative way to interpret the past,” says Professor Marlene Epp (Conrad Grebel). “In her supportive and forthright manner, she gave me, and many other female graduate students, the confidence to pursue a career in academia.”

Mitchinson was a great believer in work-life balance; she travelled widely, was an enthusiastic and prolific gardener, and found joy in her dogs and cats and in the natural world. She leaves her partner of 50 years, Rex Lingwood, her family, friends and colleagues — many of whom often remarked that “she had a smile that could light up a room.”

Wendy Mitchinson in garden

Professor Andrew Hunt, a colleague in History recently wrote: “Modesty was one of Wendy’s traits… You’d never guess from spending time with her that you were in the presence of one of the greatest historians this country has ever produced.”

Professor John Sbardellati, also a department colleague, said: “She was a most welcoming and friendly colleague… In addition to being a fine scholar, Wendy did wonders for department congeniality. She will be missed.”

This article was adapted from the obituary for Wendy Mitchinson.

Memorial donations can be made to the Wendy Mitchinson Graduate Award in History at the University of Waterloo (to discuss donation to the scholarship, please contact Nancy Mattes, Assoc. Director, Advancement) or to Sakura House Woodstock.

In Memoriam – Suzann Buckley

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On December 17, 2021

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Submitted by Andrée Lévesque

Suzann Buckley died on 31 August at her house in Keene, New Hampshire. Many of us remember her for her work in women’s history and Canadian Studies, as well as for her participation in CHA congresses and in the Berkshire Conferences on Women’s History.

Suzann got her doctorate at Duke University in 1972 in British Commonwealth History. After her work on Anglo-Canadian relations, she became attracted to women’s history and medical history. Many of us have used her article on “Ladies and Midwives? Efforts to Reduce Infant and maternal mortality” (in Linda Kealey, A Not Unreasonable Claim: Women and Reform in Canada 1880s-1920s, 1979). She has also published on women’s history in Edwardian Britain.

After teaching at the University of Georgia, Athens, then at SUNY Plattsburgh from 1987 to 1995 where she was active in the Canadian Studies Programme and Coordinator of the Women’s Studies Programme, Suzann became increasingly involved in university administration where she was instrumental in promoting women’s history. From there she moved to the University of Massachusetts in Dartmouth where she was Dean of Arts and Sciences, followed by two years at Texas Women’s College where she was also Dean of Arts and Sciences. From there she came back east to Franklin Pierce College, NH, as Provost and Vice-President of Academic Affairs. In 2006, she was appointed Provost and Vice-President of Academic Affairs at Alfred University.

Suzann was from Boston and was proud of her Irish heritage. Always interested in politics, she was born in a family of politicians and was a staunch democrat. In her last years, she was working on Irish politics in Boston.

All those who have known Suzann remember her sense of humour, her integrity and her sense of justice, her struggles for women’s rights, and her cutting remarks about politicians from Nixon to Trump. She was a very discrete person, almost self-effacing. I am very lucky to have about thirty letters and countless funny, often outrageous, postcards that she sent me before we got on email.

We had the same thesis director at Duke, Richard Preston, although she was a year behind me. We met at the Public Archives in Ottawa in the summer of 1969, both doing research for our dissertation, both in political history. We always kept in touch from then on. In 1978, she was my guide in London and introduced me to the PRO on Portugal Street, and took me to the Fawcett library. She invited me to give a lecture at SUNY Plattsburgh, and she lectured in my class at Ottawa U. I can’t count the museums I visited with her but the Isabella Stewart in Boston was unforgettable. On a more personal level, she was my son Karl’s godmother and he is her daughter Branwen’s godfather.

To Branwen, of whom she was so proud, my sincere condolences.

Here is an excerpt from a letter dated 5 June 1974: “ Since you are going to be in the North American area for the year, you may want to join the CCWH. Its newsletter is interesting, and membership for the unemployed is only $3.00.”

 

Par Andrée Lévesque 

Suzann Buckley nous a quittées le 31 août dernier dans sa résidence à Keene, New Hampshire. Plusieurs d’entre nous se souviennent de ses travaux en histoire des femmes et en études canadiennes, ainsi que de sa participation aux congrès de la Société historique du Canada et aux Berkshire Conferences on Women’s History.

Suzann a obtenu son doctorat en histoire du Commonwealth britannique à l’université Duke, Caroline du Nord, en 1972. C’était une féministe et après ses recherches initiales en relations anglo-canadiennes, elle s’est de plus en plus intéressée à l’histoire des femmes et à l’histoire médicale, comme en fait foi son article « Ladies and Midwives? Efforts to Reduce Infant and maternal mortality” (dans Linda Kealey, dir., A Not Unreasonable Claim: Women and Reform in Canada 1880s-1920s, 1979). Elle a aussi publié sur l’histoire des femmes en Grande-Bretagne pendant la période édouardienne.

Suzann a enseigné à l’Université de Georgia à Athens, puis, de 1987 à 1995, au département d’histoire de l’Université de d’État de New York (SUNY) à Plattsburg, où elle a laissé sa marque dans le programme d’études canadiennes, tout en étant coordonatrice du programme d’études sur les femmes. De plus en plus impliquée dans l’administration universitaire, Suzann fut nommée doyenne des arts et des sciences de l’Université du Massachusetts à Dartmouth, puis au Texas Women’s College où, pendant deux ans, elle occupa le poste de doyenne des arts et des sciences. Revenue en Nouvelle-Angleterre, elle assuma les fonctions de Provost et de vice-présidente aux affaires académiques à l’Université Alfred dans l’état de New York.

Originaire de Boston, fière de son héritage irlandais, Suzann est née dans une famille de politiciens et est demeurée une démocrate convaincue. Pendant ses dernières années, elle avait entrepris des recherches sur la politique irlandaise de Boston.

Toutes les personnes qui ont connu Suzann se rappellent de son sens de l’humour et de ses  commentaires irrévérencieux sur certains politiciens, mais aussi de son intégrité, de ses combats pour la justice et contre la discrimination, en particulier sa défense des causes féministes.

Nous avions le même directeur de thèse à Duke, Richard Preston, à une année d’intervalle. Nous nous sommes rencontrées aux Archives nationales à Ottawa pendant l’été de 1969 alors que nous étions plongées dans nos recherches pour notre dissertation, toutes deux en histoire politique. Nous sommes toujours demeurées en contact. En 1978, elle m’a servi de guide à Londres où elle tenté de me familiariser avec les documents du Public Records Office sur Portugal Street. C’est elle qui m’a amenée à la Fawcett Library maintenant la Women’s Library. Elle m’a aussi fait connaître Boston. Ensemble, nous avons visité je ne sais combien de musées, dont l’inoubliable Isabelle Stewart. Plus tard, elle m’a invitée à donner des conférences à SUNY Plattsburgh et elle a accepté d’enseigner dans mes cours à l’Université d’Ottawa. Sur une note plus personnelle, Suzann est la marraine de mon fils Karl, qui est le parrain de sa fille Branwen. J’ai la chance d’avoir gardé une trentaine de ses lettres et de nombreuses cartes postales qui s’arrêtent quand commencent les courriels.

 Extrait d’une lettre datée 5 juin 1974 :  « Puisque tu seras en Amérique du Nord cette année, tu devrais penser à devenir membre du Comité canadien d’histoire des femmes. Leur bulletin est intéressant et pour les sans-emplois les frais ne sont que de $3 ».

À Branwen, dont elle était si fière, mes plus sincères sympathies.

International Federation for Research in Women’s History Newsletter Submissions/Soumissions pour le bulletin de la Fédération internationale pour la recherche en histoire des femmes

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On December 17, 2021

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Hi CCWGH members! Bonjour aux membres du CCHFG!

(French follows / le français suit)

It is that time of year again when we want to hear from you about your research, so that we can promote it to our international colleagues. The International Federation for Research in Women’s History wants to know about your work on women’s and gender histories, so they can feature it in the upcoming newsletter.
We would love to hear from you about your: awards, books, journal articles, chapters, new research projects, blog posts, podcast interviews, newspaper editorials, Twitter presentations, and any other activities related to your work on women’s and gender history.

This is also a really good opportunity to highlight research and related work from grad students, contingent faculty, and early career researchers as well.

So please don’t hesitate to self-promote, or, even better, to promote someone else’s work.

Please send your contributions to our IFRWH rep, Maddie Knickerbocker (madeline.knickerbocker@kpu.ca) by January 7, 2021.
Nous voulons vous entendre parler de vos recherches, afin de pouvoir en faire la promotion auprès de nos collègues internationaux. La Fédération internationale pour la recherche en histoire des femmes souhaite en effet connaître vos travaux en histoires des femmes et du genre, afin de pouvoir les présenter dans son prochain bulletin.

Nous serions ravis de vous entendre parler de vos: prix, livres, articles de journaux, chapitres, nouveaux projets de recherche, articles de blog, interviews de podcast, éditoriaux de journaux, présentations Twitter, et toute autre activité liée à votre travail sur l’histoire des femmes et du genre.

C’est aussi une très bonne occasion de mettre en valeur les recherches et les travaux d’étudiants diplômés, de instructeurs précaires, et de chercheurs en début de carrière.

Alors n’hésitez pas à vous auto-promouvoir ou, mieux encore, à promouvoir le travail de quelqu’un d’autre.

Veuillez envoyer vos contributions à notre représentante de l’IFRWH, Maddie Knickerbocker (madeline.knickerbocker@kpu.ca) avant le 7 janvier 2021.

2021 Lauréats du prix Hilda Neatby/Hilda Neatby Award Winners

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On July 19, 2021

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English/Anglais:

David Thompson, “More Sugar, Less Salt: Edith Hancox and the Passionate Mobilization of the Dispossessed, 1919–1928” Labour/Le Travail 85 (2020): 127-163. https://doi.org/10.1353/llt.2020.0005
Little is known about the women who contributed to Winnipeg’s early twentieth-century labour movement.  David Thompson’s “More Sugar, Less Salt” intervenes by providing a fascinating analysis of one of the city’s most prolific labour activists: Edith Hancox.  Motivated by personal experience and political conviction, Hancox challenged the capitalist patriarchy in Winnipeg throughout the decade following the General Strike by organizing demonstrations, making public speeches, writing articles and letters, and performing essential but undervalued emotional labour.  Drawing from her writing as well as from archival, government, and family records, Thompson explains how a radical motherhood approach shaped Hancox’s social justice work.

French/Français:

Louise Bienvenue, “Façonner l’âme d’une nation par l’histoire : La Vulgarisation Historique, selon Marie-Claire Daveluy (1880-1968) » Historical Studies in Education/Revue d’histoire De l’education 32, 2 (Fall 2020). https://doi.org/10.32316/hse-rhe.v32i2.4793

Dans cet article, Louise Bienvenue examine un aspect précis de la carrière de l’historienne et écrivaine Marie-Claire Daveluy (1880-1968), en s’attardant à son rôle d’« éducatrice populaire ». Passionnée d’archives, Daveluy a emprunté de nombreux canaux pour diffuser son savoir historique à des publics diversifiés composés d’enfants et d’adultes (contes, romans, émissions de radio, articles de revues, cérémonies commémoratives). Pour elle, l’histoire était porteuse de vertus civiques et de valeurs patriotiques et elle insistait, bien avant l’ « histoire des femmes » universitaire, pour replacer les femmes dans le récit historique. En analysant les contributions variées de Daveluy, s’appuyant sur des correspondances personnelles et des lettres d’admiratrices, notamment, Bienvenue rappelle l’importance de l’œuvre d’éducation populaire de Daveluy et son influence sur la formation de « l’âme d’une nation ».

Renew your membership/Renouveler votre adhésion!

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On January 26, 2021

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It is time to renew your membership in the Canadian Committee on Women’s and Gender History/Comité canadien de l’histoire des femmes et du genre for 2021!

Members of the CCWGH/CCHFG have the opportunity to be part of a diverse and vibrant network of scholars. Our committee is one of the oldest and largest in the Canadian Historical Association. We use your support to translate our website and other resources, which makes the CCWGH one of the few genuinely pan-Canadian forums for historians. The membership fee is small, but without your support we would be unable to continue most of our activities, including maintaining a website with teaching resources and a bibliography on women and gender history; hosting keynote speakers; hosting a reception at the annual conference; organizing roundtables and sponsoring sessions at the annual meeting; maintaining a blog and activities such as annual awards for promoting gender and women’s history. We also provide funding for a new social media coordinator. These activities would be impossible without your support.

Members can also purchase gift memberships for graduate students interested in women’s and gender history. A membership is a great way to introduce them to our academic community and to further support the Committee’s work.

You can now easily renew your membership on a secure website (or you can use the form on this site to mail a check).

C’est le moment de renouveler votre adhésion au Comité canadien de l’histoire des femmes et du genre/ Canadian Committee on Women’s and Gender History pour l’année 2021!

Les membres du CCWGH/CCHFG ont la chance de faire partie d’un réseau de spécialistes diversifié et dynamique. Notre comité est un des plus anciens et des plus nombreux au sein de la Société historique du Canada. Une partie de vos contributions est affectée à la traduction de notre site web et de diverses ressources, ce qui fait du CCHFG un des rares forums d’historiens et d’historiennes véritablement pancanadiens. Les coûts d’adhésion sont minimes, mais sans votre soutien il nous serait impossible de poursuivre nos activités, notamment celles de maintenir notre site web qui comprend une bibliographie sur l’histoire des femmes et du genre, d’inviter un conférencier ou une conférencière à la réunion annuelle, de donner une réception, de former des tables rondes et de parrainer des séances dans le cadre du congrès annuel de la SHC, ou encore, de maintenir un blog, et soutenir des activités qui font la promotion de l’histoire des femmes et du genre telles que les prix d’excellence remis annuellement. Nous fournissons également du financement pour un nouveau coordonnateur des médias sociaux. Ces activités ne seraient pas possibles sans votre soutien.

Les membres peuvent également acheter des abonnements pour les étudiants diplômés intéressés par l’histoire des femmes et du genre. Une adhésion les présente à notre communauté universitaire et aide à soutenir les travaux du Comité.

Vous pouvez dès maintenant renouveler votre adhésion à partir d’un site web sécurisé. Si toutefois, vous souhaitez vous inscrire par courrier et chèque personnel, un formulaire d’adhésion est également disponible sur notre site web.

Call for Information/Appel pour obtenir des renseignements – International Federation for Research on Women’s History

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On November 24, 2020

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Hello CCWGH members!

It’s that time of year again, to send us info about your publications, projects, and papers so we can celebrate you in the newsletter for the International Federation for Research in Women’s History.

Maddie Knickerbocker (madeline.knickerbocker@kpu.ca) is our IFRWH representative, so please send her your updates by December 14.

In addition, if you have events or anything on social media you’d like to be promoted now or throughout the year, please also let Maddie know; the IFRWH social media accounts can help signal boost your good work to an international audience of colleagues.

Thanks very much!

 

Bonjour aux membres du CCWGH!

C’est cette période de l’année encore, pour nous envoyer des informations sur vos publications, projets et documents afin que nous puissions vous célébrer dans le bulletin de la Fédération internationale pour la recherche en histoire des femmes.

Maddie Knickerbocker (madeline.knickerbocker@kpu.ca) est notre représentante à l’IFRWH. Veuillez lui faire parvenir vos mises à jour d’ici le 14 décembre.

De plus, si vous souhaitez faire la promotion d’événements ou de quoi que ce soit sur les médias sociaux maintenant ou tout au long de l’année, veuillez en informer Maddie; les comptes de médias sociaux de l’IFRWH peuvent aider à signaler votre bon travail à un auditoire international de collègues.

Merci beaucoup !

Congratulations to the Recipients of the Barbara Roberts Memorial Fund!

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On August 24, 2020

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(Originally posted at https://www.criaw-icref.ca/en/news/congratulations-to-the-recipients-of-the-barbara-roberts-memorial-fund-90)

Congratulations to Dr. Vasuki Shanmuganathan, Yasmeen Nematt Alla, and Katherine Eun-Young Bell, who are the recipients of the 2020 Barbara Roberts Memorial Fund prize!

How can we document people’s experiences of communal care during a pandemic? How can we engage communities to share research when we cannot meet in person? These are the questions that drive Shanmuganathan, Nematt Alla, and Bell’s project, entitled Documenting Communal Care Practices. Drawing on Indigenous and Black feminist methodologies, and centering the voices of racialized and non-binary people, they aim to make care work visible in their neighbourhoods and to preserve the stories of care as “resistive and restorative rituals.” Their project will begin with a digital art space and social media engagement that will be used to collect moments and gestures of care, and will eventually result in an installation at the Whippersnapper Gallery in Toronto. We are delighted to support this innovative project that will confront long-simmering questions about care and social justice, questions that are all the more urgent in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Barbara Roberts Memorial Fund is administered by the Canadian Research Institute for the Advancement of Women (CRIAW), and is supported through fundraising efforts by the membership of the CCWGH-CCHFG. For more information, please see our page on the Barbara Roberts Memorial Fund here.

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