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1. Women Pioneers in Canadian Sociology: The Effects of a Politics of Gender and a Politics of Knowledge.

Author

Eichler, Margrit

Subjects
*SOCIOLOGISTS, BIOGRAPHIES
Abstract

This article examines the life histories of ten anglophone Canadian pioneer women sociologists: Helen Abell, Grace Anderson, Jean Burnet, Eleanor Cebotarev, Kathleen Hennan, Helen McGill Hughes, Thelma McCormack, Helen Ralston, Aileen Ross and Dorothy Smith. All were born before 1930, encountered significant sexism, and found jobs very easily. This pattern is placed into the context of a politics of gender and a politics of knowledge. Politics of gender in the institutional context and in family rules resulted in disadvantages, while the effect of the women's movement led to solidarity among women sociologists and eventual improvements in their situation. The simultaneous emergence of the women's movement and the Canadianization movement led to a politics of knowledge which proved advantageous for both. Nevertheless, the sociological canon so far has hot included women pioneers -- the author needed to conduct interviews since almost no published information existed about most of these important sociologists prior to this paper. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2001
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2. Strategic Narratives: The Embodiment of Minority Discourses in Biographical Performance.

Author

Sajnani, Nisha

Subjects
*PERFORMANCE, *GENDER, *EMIGRATION & immigration, *ART, *MINORITIES, BIOGRAPHIES
Abstract

The author and his four close friends collaborated on a collective biographical performance project in late December of 2002 which resulted in a performance piece entitled "The Body Politic: Common Conversations on Gender and the Nation." This paper documents the process undertaken as they prepared to represent their personal and collective memories of immigration, integration and assimilation into Canada's multicultural mosaic. Biographical performance provides an art form and a platform for individuals marked as visible and invisible minorities. When it crosses and blurs the borders between separate minority discourses, it has the potential strategically to unsettle dominant interpretations of Canadian identity.

Published
2004
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3. Separating the myths from Manning senior.

Author

Serres, Christopher

Subjects
*RELIGION & politics, *TWENTIETH century, *HISTORY, ALBERTA politics & government, CANADIAN prime ministers, BIOGRAPHIES
Abstract

Provides information on former Alberta Premier Ernest Charles Manning, who led the province more by example than by decree for 25 years. Papers released from Alberta provincial archives; Manning papers an open challenge to common fallacy that religious politicians are intrusive busybodies; Manning's Christianity smoothed the rough edges of ruling Social Credit party; His concern with the Quiet Revolution in Quebec; Economy of leadership. INSET: Small was beautiful, by C.S..

Published
1993