Year: 2008
Type: paratext
Abstract: LIKE WOMEN'S STUDIES, this book has multiple origins and includes many voices.It is the result of the confluence of three research streams springing from a common source: a passionate commitment to documenting women's lives and the development of feminism across Canada, and to ensuring that the historical record includes as many perspectives as possible.The book brings together three distinct projects.Wendy Robbins, at her home, at the University of New Brunswick (unb), and nationally in the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences (cfhss), was closely monitoring the situation of women in Canadian universities and was actively involved in various campaigns to improve women's status.She read The Politics of Women's Studies: Testimony from 30 Founding Mothers (2000), a collection of autobiographical essays edited by Florence Howe; the American collection, she recognized, "might serve as a wake-up call to founding mothers of Women's Studies programs across Canada, for our stories, too, are in need of integration, analysis, and articulation" (Robbins 2001).Her commitment to this project was confirmed at the annual meeting of coordinators of women's studies at Dalhousie University in the spring of 2002, where the notion of creating a comparable Canadian collection was generally welcomed as an excellent idea.By then, Wendy had started to supervise an undergraduate student at unb, Laurie McLaughlan, in the compilation of "A Chronology of the Development of Women's Studies in Canada," which they posted on the par-l website for comments and corrections.Entries were written in either English or French, and many of the
Language: English
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Gender equality
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W4392326371