Sisters or Strangers? : Immigrant, Ethnic, and Racialized Women in Canadian History - Second Edition

Spanning more than two hundred years of history, from the eighteenth century to the twenty-first, __Sisters or Strangers?__ explores the complex lives of immigrant, ethnic, and racialized women in Canada. Contents 5 Acknowledgments 9 Introduction 11 PART ONE Race, Crime, and Justice 29 Introduction 29 A New Biography of the African Diaspora: The Life and Death of Marie-Joseph Angélique, Black Portuguese Slave Women in New France, 1725–1 33 Unpacking the Discursive Irish Woman Immigrant in Eighteenthand Nineteenth-Century Newfoundland 54 The Tale of Lin Tee: Madness, Family Violence, and Lindsay’s Anti-Chinese Riot of 1919 74 PART TWO The Making of White Settler Societies 95 Turning Strangers into Sisters? Missionaries and Colonization in Upper Canada 95 Whose Sisters and What Eyes? White Women, Race, and Immigration to British Columbia, 1849–1871 118 Exclusion through Inclusion: Female Asian Migration in the Making of Canada as a White Settler Nation 136 PART THREE Letters and Tales of Settlement and Longing 159 Introduction 159 Letters “Home” from Canada: British Female Emigrants and the Imperial Family of Women 163 The Interplay of Ethnicity and Gender: Swedish Women in Southeastern Saskatchewan 182 From Montreal and Venice with Love: Migrant Letters and Romantic Intimacy in Italian Migration to Postwar Canada 201 PART FOUR Labouring Domestics and Canadian Constraints 215 In Search of Comfort and Independence: Irish Immigrant Domestic Servants Encounter the Courts, Jails, and Asylums in Nineteenth-Century Ontario 215 Taming and Training Greek “Peasant Girls” and the Gendered Politics of Whiteness in Postwar Canada: Canadian Bureaucrats and Immigrant Domestics, 1950s–1960s 241 I Care for You, Who Cares for Me? Transitional Services of Filipino Live-in Caregivers in Canada 262 PART FIVE Constructing Symbols and Bodies 281 Fashioning Conflicts: Gender, Power, and Icelandic Immigrant Hair and Clothing in North America, 1874–1933 281 A Larger Frame: “Redressing” the Image of Doukhobor Canadian Women in the Twentieth Century 308 Propaganda and Identity Construction: Media Representation in Canada of Finnish and Finnish Canadian Women during the Winter War of 1939–1940 327 PART SIX Activists and Political Subjects 357 Introduction 357 Canadian Citizens or Dangerous Foreign Women? Canada’s Radical Consumer Movement, 1947–1950 361 Haitian Feminist Diasporic Lakou: Haitian Women’s Community Organizing in Montreal, 1960–1980 382 “An Unlikely Collection of Union Militants”: Portuguese Immigrant Cleaning Women Become Political Subjects in Postwar Toronto 403 PART SEVEN Food, Family, and Culture 419 The Semiotics of Zwieback: Feast and Famine in the Narratives of Mennonite Refugee Women 419 Jell-O Salads, One-Stop Shopping, and Maria the Homemaker: The Gender Politics of Food 442 Consuming Food and Constructing Identities among Arabic and South Asian Immigrant Women 465 PART EIGHT History, Identity, and Belonging PART EIGHT History, Identity, and Belonging 485 “Slotting” Chinese Families and Refugees, 1947–1967 485 Experience and Identity: Black Immigrant Nurses to Canada, 1950–1980 510 The Mother of God Wears a Maple Leaf: History, Gender, and Ethnic Identity in Sacred Space 531 PART NINE Trauma, Violence, and Memory 553 Surviving Their Survival: Women, Memory, and the Holocaust 553 “Days You Remember”: Japanese Canadian Women and the Violence of Internment 576 Feminist Oral History and Assessing the Duelling Narratives of Iraqi Women in Diaspora 594 Contributors 613 Credits 621

Spanning more than two hundred years of history, from the eighteenth century to the twenty-first, Sisters or Strangers? explores the complex lives of immigrant, ethnic, and racialized women in Canada. Among the themes examined in this new edition are the intersection of race, crime, and justice, the creation of white settler societies, letters and oral histories, domestic labour, the body, political activism, food studies, gender and ethnic identity, and trauma, violence, and memory.

The second edition of this influential essay collection expands its chronological and conceptual scope with fifteen new essays that reflect the latest cutting-edge research in Canadian women’s history. Introductions to each thematic section include discussion questions and suggestions for further reading, making the book an even more valuable classroom resource than before.

"Spanning more than two hundred years of history, from the eighteenth century to the twenty-first, Sisters or Strangers? explores the complex lives of immigrant, ethnic, and racialized women in Canada. Among the themes examined in this new edition are the intersection of race, crime, and justice, the creation of white settler societies, letters and oral histories, domestic labour, the body, political activism, food studies, gender and ethnic identity, and trauma, violence, and memory."-- Provided by publisher "The second edition of this influential essay collection expands its chronological and conceptual scope with fifteen new essays that reflect the latest cutting-edge research in Canadian women's history. Introductions to each thematic section include discussion questions and suggestions for further reading, making the book an even more valuable classroom resource than before."-- Provided by publisher