| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 340 pages) : illustrations, portraits |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
'Write down everything just as you know it' -- Victims of the times, heroes of their lives -- Driving towards death -- Dear Ruth: this is the story of Maggie Wilson, Ojibwa ethnologist -- Casting light on women in the shadow of the law -- From Bovarysme to Automatisme (and beyond) -- The wrong time and the wrong place -- Settling the score with myths of settlement -- Anna of Intola: a Finnish-Canadian woman with Sisu -- Soaring to new heights -- Marion Hilliard -- 'By title and by virtue' -- Elizabeth Allin -- 'Out of a cardboard box beside our bed like a baby' -- Evelyn Garbary. |
| Summary |
"Great Dames is a collection of biographical sketches, memoirs, and essays about twentieth-century Canadian women from all walks of life. While attempting to capture the meaning of the ordinary lives of extraordinary women, it also explores the possibility of challenging, even subverting, the traditional view of life writing as an endeavour to 'summarize and fix in time the public careers of public men.' The fifteen essays represent a variety of alternative approaches to feminist biography, including chronology narrative, thematic exploration, multiple biography, conversations between biographer and subject, interviews, diaries, and even fictional accounts." "In selecting their subjects, from Mennonite refugee women to an Ojibwa ethnologist, the contributors were asked to consider women who would be unlikely candidates for longer biographies; in the course of their research, however, it became clear that the lives of at least two of the chosen subjects warranted book-length examination. The selection also attempts to address perceived gaps in regional, class, racial, and disciplinary representation in life writing."--Jacket. |
| Access |
Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2011. MiAaHDL |
| System Details |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
| Processing Action |
digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Women -- Canada -- Biography.
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Women. |
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Canada. |
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Canada -- Biography.
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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Electronic books.
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| Subject |
Women. |
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Womyn. |
| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| Added Author |
Cameron, Elspeth, 1943-
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McGinnis, Janice P. Dickin (Janice Patricia Dickin), 1947-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Great dames. Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 1997 9780802004222 (DLC) 97159882 (OCoLC)36342290 |
| ISBN |
9781442675506 (electronic book) |
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1442675500 (electronic book) |
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0802004229 (bound) |
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0802072151 (paperback) |
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9780802072153 |
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9780802004222 |
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