Breaking Barriers, Shaping Worlds

Canadian Women and the Search for Global Order

Edited by Jill Campbell-Miller, Greg Donaghy, and Stacey Barker
Categories: History, Political Science, International Relations, Canadian History, Gender & Sexuality Studies, Women’s Studies
Publisher: UBC Press
Hardcover : 9780774866408, 240 pages, November 2021
Paperback : 9780774866415, 240 pages, June 2022
Ebook (PDF) : 9780774866422, 240 pages, November 2021
Ebook (EPUB) : 9780774866439, 240 pages, November 2021
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Table of contents

Introduction: “Where are the Women?” / Jill Campbell-Miller & Greg Donaghy

Part 1: Women in Missions, Aid, and Development

1 Quietly Contesting Patriarchy: Dr. Jessie MacBean’s Medical Work in South China, 1925–35 / Kim Girouard

2 A Mission for Modernity: Canadian Women in Medical and Nursing Education in India, 1946–66 / Jill Campbell-Miller

3 Life Stories, Wife stories: Women Advisors on Economic Development / David Webster

Part 2: Women in International Resistance

4 Historically Invisible: The Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, 1914–29 / Sharon Cook and Lorna McLean

5 The Voice of Women, the Baby Tooth Survey, and the Search for Security in the Atomic Age / Susan Colbourn

6 Marie Smallface Marule: An Indigenous Internationalist / Jonathan Crossen

Part 3: Women in Diplomacy

7 P.K. Page and the Art of Diplomacy: An Ambassadorial Wife in Brazil / Eric Fillion

8 Jean Casselman Wadds: Patriation, Dinner Party Wars, and a Political Diplomat / Steve Marti and Francine McKenzie

9 Flora Macdonald: Secretary of State for External Affairs, 1979–80 / Joe Clark

Conclusion: Breaking Historiographic Barriers / Dominique Marshall

Epilogue – Greg Donaghy: An Appreciation / Patricia E. Roy

Bibliography; Contributors; Index

Description

Where are the women in Canada’s international history? Breaking Barriers, Shaping Worlds gathers scholars to explore the role of women in twentieth-century Canadian international affairs. They examine the lives and careers of professionals employed abroad as doctors, nurses, or economic development advisors; those fighting for change as anti-war, anti-nuclear, or Indigenous rights activists; and women working as diplomatic spouses or as diplomats themselves. This lively, wide-ranging collection reveals the vital contribution of women to the search for global order that has been a hallmark of Canada’s international history.