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Flora!
Harriet’s Legacies
The Possession of Barbe Hallay
Women at the Helm
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Reading List: Women’s History Month 2023
March is Women’s History Month. It is a month to remember the history of women’s rights movements around the globe, acknowledge women’s achievements and contributions, advocate for gender equality, and celebrate all women – past, present, and future.
For Women’s History Month, we’ve complied a reading list of recently published and forthcoming books that are about women who made a an impact on the world around them. You can also browse our Women’s and Gender Studies books here.
Agent of Change
My Life Fighting Terrorists, Spies, and Institutional Racism
By Huda Mukbil
Huda Mukbil shares her experiences as a Black Arab-Canadian Muslim intelligence officer with the Canadian Security Intelligence Service. Her dazzling account reveals how racism, misogyny, and Islamophobia undermine not only individuals, but institutions and the national interest – and how addressing this can tackle populism and misinformation.
Flora!
A Woman in a Man’s World
Flora Isabel MacDonald – politician, humanitarian, adventurer, and role model for a generation of women – was known across Canada and beyond simply as Flora. In her memoir, co-authored by award-winning journalist and author Geoffrey Stevens, she tells her personal story for the very first time, describing her journey from her childhood in Cape Breton, through her years in backroom Progressive Conservative politics, to elected office and her appointment as Canada’s first female minister of foreign affairs.
Harriet’s Legacies
Race, Historical Memory, and Futures in Canada
Harriet’s Legacies articulates new critical terrain for the historic freedom fighter Harriet Tubman by recuperating the significance of Tubman’s time in Canada as not just an interlude in her American narrative but another site for thinking about Black diasporic mobilities, possibilities, and histories, placing these narratives within a transnational and transatlantic framework.
The Possession of Barbe Hallay
Diabolical Arts and Daily Life in Early Canada
When strange signs appeared in the sky over Québec in 1660, people grew worried about the arrival of evil forces. Barbe Hallay, a teenaged servant, started to act as if possessed, and a miller accused of using dark arts to torment her was executed. Mairi Cowan explores this case of demonic infestation to understand the everyday experiences and deep anxieties of people in New France.
Women at the Helm
How Jean Sutherland Boggs, Hsio-yen Shih, and Shirley L. Thomson Changed the National Gallery of Canada
Women at the Helm explores the accomplishments of the first three women to direct the National Gallery of Canada during three transformative decades in its history. From leadership styles to the challenges they faced and their many contributions to the institution, Nemiroff considers their remarkable careers and the obstacles still faced by women in leadership today.
L.M. Montgomery and Gender
The celebrated author of Anne of Green Gables and Emily of New Moon receives much-deserved additional consideration in L.M. Montgomery and Gender. Nineteen contributors take a variety of critical and theoretical positions, from historical analyses of the White Feather campaign and discussions of adoption to medical discourses of death and disease, explorations of Montgomery’s use of humour, and the author’s rewriting of masculinist traditions.
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