Creating Historical Memory: English-Canadian Women and the Work of History

Beverly Boutilier

ISBN 10: 0774806419 / ISBN 13: 9780774806411

Published by University of British Columbia Press, 1998

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Creating Historical Memory: English-Canadian Women and the Work of History
• Publisher: University of British Columbia Press
• Publication Date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0774806419
• ISBN 13: 9780774806411
• Binding: Paperback / softback
• Condition: New
• Weight: 511 grams

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Synopsis

Canadian women have worked, individually and collectively, at home and abroad, as creators of historical memory. This engaging collection of essays seeks to create an awareness of the contributions made by women to history and the historical profession from 1870 to 1970 in English Canada. Creating Historical Memory explores the wide range of careers that women have forged for themselves as writers and preservers of history within, outside, and on the margins of the academy. The authors suggest some of the institutional and intellectual locations from which English Canadian women have worked as historians and attempt to problematize in different ways and to varying degrees, the relationship between women and historical practice.

About the Author

Beverly Boutilier is currently an advisor to the Women’s Studies Program of CUSO in Indonesia. Alison Prentice is one of Canada’s most distinguished historians of women. She is one of the authors of the pathbreaking 'Canadian Women: A History' and has worked on numerous books on the history of women in Canada. She currently resides in Victoria, B.C.