Recent Works in Twentieth-Century Women's, Gender, and "New Political" History.

This review essay considers three important new books from established scholars of Canadian women's and gender history: Julie Guard's Radical Housewives, Valerie Korinek's Prairie Fairies, and Wendy Mitchinson's Fighting Fat. Although covering different topics and employing different kinds of approa...

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Publicado en:Canadian Historical Review Vol. 101; no. 3; pp. 450 - 460
Autor principal: Pasolli, Lisa
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Publicado: University of Toronto Press Sep2020
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        Radical Housewives: Price Wars & Food Politics in Mid-20th-Century Canada (Book)
        Prairie Fairies: A History of Queer Communities & People in Western Canada 1930-1985 (Book)
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        This review essay considers three important new books from established scholars of Canadian women's and gender history: Julie Guard's Radical Housewives, Valerie Korinek's Prairie Fairies, and Wendy Mitchinson's Fighting Fat. Although covering different topics and employing different kinds of approaches, taken together, these three studies highlight the long-standing commitment of women's and gender historians to embrace interdisciplinary insights and to link the past to the present. This review also suggests that, given the analysis of power and interpretive innovations represented by these three studies, the field of women's and gender history should be seen as a source of some of the best "new political history." Finally, considered in light of important historical works that draw on queer theory, fat studies, and the intersections of gender with race, ethnicity, and colonialism, these three books open the door to crucial questions that historians in the field must continue to ask.
        Le présent essai critique traite de trois nouveaux livres importants écrits par des spécialistes reconnues de l'histoire des femmes et du genre au Canada : Radical Housewives, de Julie Guard, Prairie Fairies, de Valerie Korinek, et Fighting Fat, de Wendy Mitchinson. Si elles portent sur des sujets différents et n'abordent pas les choses de la même façon, ces trois études, prises collectivement, mettent néanmoins en évidence la volonté qu'expriment depuis longtemps les historiennes et les historiens des femmes et du genre d'adopter des points de vue interdisciplinaires et de relier le passé au présent. Cet essai fait également observer qu'étant donné l'analyse du pouvoir et les innovations interprétatives représentées par ces trois études, le domaine de l'histoire des femmes et du genre devrait être vu comme une source de certains des meilleurs exemples de « nouvelle histoire politique ». Enfin, considérés à la lumière d'importants travaux historiques qui s'appuient sur la théorie queer, les études sur la corpulence et les recoupements entre genre et race, ethnicité et colonialisme, ces trois livres ouvrent la voie à des questions cruciales que les historiennes et les historiens du domaine doivent continuer à se poser.
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