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table of contents
  1. Cover
  2. Acknowledgements
  3. Introduction • Framing the Debate on Democracy and Governance in an Oil-Exporting Economy
  4. Part One • The Context of Democracy in an Oil Economy
    1. 1. Liberal Democracy in Oil-Exporting Countries: A View from the Perspective of Staples Theory
    2. 2. Petroleum, Politics, and the Limits of Left Progressivism in Alberta
    3. 3. Petro-politics in Alberta and Canada: A New Spatiality of Political Contestation?
    4. 4. Alberta’s Energy Paradigm: Prosperity, Security, and the Environment
    5. 5. The Political Economy of Oil and Democracy in Venezuela and Alberta
  5. Part Two • Rights Claims in an Oil Economy
    1. 6. Petroleum, Patriarchy, and Power: Women’s Equality in Canada and Iran
    2. 7. Development at What Cost? First Nations, Ecological Integrity, and Democracy
    3. 8. Worker Safety in Alberta: Trading Health for Profit
    4. 9. Exporting Oil, Importing Labour, and Weakening Democracy: The Use of Foreign Migrant Workers in Alberta
    5. 10. Gendering Energy Extraction in Fort McMurray
  6. Part Three • Governance, Identity, and Citizenship in an Oil Economy
    1. 11. A Window on Power and Influence in Alberta Politics
    2. 12. The Paradox of Plenty: Ending Homelessness in Alberta
    3. 13. “The Sharpest Knives in the Drawer”: Visual Culture at the Intersection of Oil and State
    4. 14. Blurring the Boundaries of Private, Partisan, and Public Interests: Accountability in an Oil Economy
  7. Conclusion • Of Democracy and Its Deficits: Surviving Neoliberalism in Oil-Exporting Countries
  8. List of Contributors
  9. Index

Contents

Acknowledgements

INTRODUCTION
Reflections on Thirty Years of Women’s History

DISCOVERING WOMEN’S HISTORY

THE 1907 BELL TELEPHONE STRIKE
Organizing Women Workers

LOOKING BACKWARDS
Re-assessing Women on the Canadian Left

THE COMMUNIST PARTY AND THE WOMAN QUESTION, 1922–1929

MANUFACTURING CONSENT IN PETERBOROUGH

THE SOFTBALL SOLUTION
Female Workers, Male Managers, and the Operation of Paternalism at Westclox, 1923–1960

‘PARDON TALES’ FROM MAGISTRATE’S COURT
Women, Crime, and the Court in Peterborough County, 1920–1950

TELLING OUR STORIES
Feminist Debates and the Use of Oral History

FOUCAULT, FEMINISM, AND POSTCOLONIALISM

GIRLS IN CONFLICT WITH THE LAW
Exploring the Construction of Female ‘Delinquency’ in Ontario, 1940–1960

CRIMINALIZING THE COLONIZED
Ontario Native Women Confront the Criminal Justice System, 1920–1960

CONSTRUCTING THE ‘ESKIMO’ WIFE
White Women’s Travel Writing, Colonialism, and the Canadian North, 1940–1960

EMBODIED EXPERIENCE

WORDS OF EXPERIENCE/EXPERIENCING WORDS
Reading Working Women’s Letters to Canada’s Royal Commission on the Status of Women

MAKING A FUR COAT
Women, the Labouring Body, and Working-class History

Publications by Joan Sangster

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