Breaking barriers, shaping worlds
Subtitle: Canadian women and the search for global order
By: edited by Jill Campbell-Miller, Greg Donaghy, and Stacey Barker
Publisher: UBC Press
Published: 2021
Place of publication: Vancouver; Toronto
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780774866439; 9780774866422
Subjects: Women in development; Women; Political activity; Women diplomats; Foreign relations; Diplomatic relations
Description: "Where are the women? Breaking Barriers, Shaping Worlds answers this question in a comprehensive exploration of the role of women in twentieth-century Canadian international affairs. Foreign policy historians have traditionally focused on powerful men. Though hidden, forgotten, or ignored, women - in paid or unpaid positions, in public or private spheres - have also shaped Canada's relations with the world over the past century. They can be found not only on the margins of traditional diplomacy, as political and community activists, missionaries, or aid workers, but also at its centre, as diplomatic spouses or as diplomats themselves. Bringing together contributors ranging from new scholars to a former prime minister, Breaking Barriers, Shaping Worlds examines the lives and careers of women who have made an impact: professional women working abroad in the so-called helping fields as doctors, nurses, or economic development advisors; women who fought for change as anti-war, anti-nuclear, or Indigenous rights activists; and women with careers in traditional diplomacy. 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."--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: "Where Are the Women?"; title: Part 1: Women in Missions, Aid, and Development; title: 1 Quietly Contesting Patriarchy: Dr. Jessie MacBean's Medical Work in South China, 1925-35; title: 2 A Mission for Modernity: Canadian Women in Medical and Nursing Education in India, 1946-66; title: 3 Life Stories, Wife Stories: Women Advisors on Economic Development; title: Part 2: Women in International Resistance; title: 4 Historically Invisible: The Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, 1914-29; title: 5 Collecting Teeth for Peace: The Voice of Women, the Baby Tooth Survey, and the Search for Security in the Atomic Age; title: 6 Marie Smallface-Marule: An Indigenous Internationalist; title: Part 3: Women in Diplomacy; title: 7 P.K. Page and the Art of Diplomacy: An Ambassadorial Wife in Brazil; title: 8 Jean Casselman Wadds: Patriation, Dinner Party Wars, and a Political Diplomat; title: 9 Flora MacDonald: Secretary of State for External Affairs, 1979-80; title: Conclusion: Breaking Historiographic Barriers; title: Greg Donaghy: An Appreciation