"Old Ontario" Through the Lens of Feminist Scholarship, 1970s-1990s

Authors

  • Cecilia Morgan

Keywords:

Historiography, Canadian History, Ontario

Abstract

This article explores a number of themes in feminist historical writing in Ontario history. It points to the different genres in which such work first appeared, assesses how feminist work has expanded or altered our knowledge of various periods and themes of the existing literature, and examines the contributions made by feminist historians to new areas of research. It concludes with a discussion of areas yet to be considered and suggests possibilities for new feminist frameworks for Ontario history.

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Author Biography

Cecilia Morgan

Cecilia Morgan teaches in the History of Education program at OISE/UT. She has published in a number of areas in women's/gender history in nineteenth and twentieth century Ontario. Her book, Public Men And Virtuous Women: The Gendered Languages of Religion And Politics in Upper Canada, 1791-1850, won the Canadian Historical Association's prize for Ontario history, 1996. Her latest project, currently in press, is a study of historical memory, gender, and imperialism in nineteenth and twentieth century Ontario that focuses on narratives of Laura Secord.

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Published

2000-10-01