Skip to main content

Bucking Conservatism: Half Title

Bucking Conservatism
Half Title

  • Show the following:

    Annotations
    Resources

  • Adjust appearance:

    Font
    Font style
    Color Scheme
    Light
    Dark
    Annotation contrast
    Low
    High
    Margins
  • Search within:
    • Notifications
    • Privacy
  • Project HomeBucking Conservatism
  • Learn more about Manifold

Notes

table of contents
  1. Cover
  2. Preface
  3. Acknowledgements
  4. Introduction
  5. Part I: Indigenous Activism and Resistance
    1. Introduction
    2. 1. Indian Status as the Foundation of Justice
    3. 2. Teaching It Our Way: Blue Quills and the Demand for Indigenous Educational Autonomy
    4. 3. “We are on the outside looking in [. . .]. But we are still Indians”: Alberta Indigenous Women Fighting for Status Rights, 1968–85
  6. Part II: Defying Heteropatriarchy
    1. Introduction
    2. 4. Fed Up with the Status Quo: Alberta Women’s Groups Challenge Maternalist Ideology and Secure Provincial Funding for Daycare, 1964–71
    3. 5. Gay Liberation in Conservative Calgary
    4. 6. Contraception, Community, and Controversy: The Lethbridge Birth Control and Information Centre, 1972–78
    5. 7. “Ultra Activists” in a “Very Closeted Place”: The Early Years of Edmonton’s Gay Alliance Toward Equality, 1972–77
  7. Part III: Doing Politics in a New Way
    1. Introduction
    2. 8. Daring to Be Left in Social Credit Alberta: Recollections of a Young New Democratic Party Activist in the 1960s
    3. 9. Socialist Survival: The Woodsworth-Irvine Socialist Fellowship and the Preservation of Radical Thought in Alberta
    4. 10. Learning Marxism from Tom Flanagan: Left-Wing Activism at the University of Calgary in the Late 1960s and Early 1970s
    5. 11. Drop In, Hang Out, and Crash: Outreach Programs for Transient Youth and War Resisters in Edmonton
    6. 12. Solidarity on the Cricket Pitch: Confronting South African Apartheid in Edmonton
  8. Part IV: Countercultural and Environmental Radicalism
    1. Introduction
    2. 13. From Nuclear Disarmament to Raging Granny: A Recollection of Peace Activism and Environmental Advocacy in the 1960s and 1970s
    3. 14. The Mill Creek Park Movement and Citizen Activism in Edmonton, 1964–75
    4. 15. “A Lot of Heifer-Dust”: Alberta Maverick Marion Nicoll and Abstract Art
    5. 16. Land and Love in the Rockies: The Poetic Politics of Sid Marty and Headwaters
    6. 17. Death of a Delta
  9. Conclusion: Bucking Conservatism, Then and Now
  10. List of Contributors

A black-and-white photograph shows two protestors holding hands, jumping up and down with their arms spreadout wide. The protest is taking place on eighth avenue in Calgary, Alberta.

Young protestors march on 8th Avenue in Calgary, April 1971, calling for an end to the U.S. war on Vietnam. Courtesy of Calgary Herald Photographs Collection, Glenbow Archives, Calgary, NA-2864-19095.

The young man on the left drapes an American flag over his shoulders. A group of protestors including children march behind them, holding up placards and waving flags.

Annotate

Next Chapter
Preface
PreviousNext
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). It may be reproduced for non-commercial purposes, provided that the original author is credited.
Powered by Manifold Scholarship. Learn more at
Opens in new tab or windowmanifoldapp.org