Publications by Joan Sangster

Books

Dreams of Equality: Women on the Canadian Left, 1920–1950. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1989.

Earning Respect: The Lives of Working Women in Small-Town Ontario, 1920–1960. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1995.

Regulating Girls and Women: Sexuality, Family and the Law in Ontario, 1920–1960. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 2001.

Girl Trouble: Female Delinquency in English Canada. Toronto: Between the Lines Press, 2002.

Transforming Labour: Women and Work in Postwar Canada. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2010.

Edited Volumes

Beyond the Vote: Canadian Women and Politics, co-edited and co-introduced with Linda Kealey. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1989.

Teaching Women’s History: Challenges and Solutions, co-edited with Bettina Bradbury et al. Edmonton: Athabasca University, 1995.

The Woman Worker, 1926–1929, co-edited and co-introduced with Margaret Hobbs. St. John’s: Canadian Committee on Labour History, 1999.

Crossing Boundaries: Women’s Organizing in Europe and the Americas, 1880s–1940s, co-edited with Pernilla Jonsson and Silke Neunsinger. Uppsala: University of Uppsala Press, 2007.

Labouring Canada: Class, Gender, and Race in Canadian Working-Class History, co-edited with Bryan D. Palmer. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 2008.

Articles and Chapters

“The 1907 Bell Telephone Strike: Organizing Women Workers,” Labour/Le Travailleur 3 (1978): 109–30.

“Women and Unions in Canada: A Review of Historical Research,” Resources for Feminist Research 10, no. 2 (July 1981): 2–6.

“Finnish Women in Ontario, 1890–1930,” Polyphony: The Bulletin of the Multicultural History Society of Ontario 3, no. 2 (Fall 1981): 46–54.

“‘A Link Between Labour and Learning’: The Workers Educational Association in Ontario, 1917–1951” (co-authored with Ian Radforth), Labour/Le Travailleur 8 (1982): 41–78.

“Women of the ‘New Era’: Women in the Early CCF,” in Building the Co-operative Commonwealth: Essays on the Democratic Socialist Tradition in Canada, ed. William Brennan (Regina: University of Regina, 1985), 69–97.

“The Communist Party and the Woman Question, 1922–1929,” Labour/Le Travail 15 (1985): 25–56.

“Canadian Working Women,” in Lectures in Canadian Labour and Working-Class History, ed. W.J.C. Cherwinski and Gregory S. Kealey (St. Johns: Committee on Canadian Labour History and New Hogtown Press, 1986), 59–78.

“The Making of a Socialist-Feminist: The Early Career of Beatrice Brigden,” Atlantis (Fall 1987): 13–28.

“Introduction,” in Moving Forward: Creating a Feminist Agenda for the 1990s (co-authored with Heather Avery), conference proceedings, Trent University, 15–17 June 1990, 7–14.

“‘Pardon Tales’ from Magistrate’s Court: Women, Crime and the Courts in Peterborough County, 1920–1950,” Canadian Historical Review 74 (June 1993): 160–97.

“The Softball Solution: Female Workers, Male Managers, and the Operation of Paternalism at Westclox, 1923–1960,” Labour/Le Travail 32 (1993): 167–99.

“Telling Our Stories: Feminist Debates and the Use of Oral History,” Women’s History Review 3, no. 1 (1994): 5–27.

“Doing Two Jobs: The Wage-Earning Mother, 1945–70,” in A Diversity of Women: Ontario, 1945–1980, ed. Joy Parr (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1995), 99–133.

“Women Workers, Employment Policy and the State: The Establishment of the Ontario Women’s Bureau, 1963–1970,” Labour/Le Travail, 36 (1995): 119–45.

“Facing Differences, Forging Solutions: Introduction,” in Teaching Women’s History (Edmonton: Athabasca University, 1995), 18–25.

“Beyond Dichotomies: Re-assessing Gender History and Women’s History in Canada,” Left History 3, no. 1 (Spring/Summer 1995): 109–21.

“Reconsidering Dichotomies,” Left History 3, no. 2, and 4, no. 1 (Fall 1996): 239–48.

“Women and Wage Labour in Australia and Canada, 1880–1980” (co-authored with Raelene Frances and Linda Kealey), Labour/Le Travail 38 (1996): 54–89.

“Incarcerating ‘Bad Girls’: The Regulation of Sexuality Through the Female Refuges Act in Ontario, 1920–1945,” Journal of the History of Sexuality 7, no. 2 (Fall 1996): 239–75.

“Criminalizing the Colonized: Ontario Native Women Confront the Criminal Justice System, 1920–1960,” Canadian Historical Review 80, no. 1 (March 1999): 32–60.

“Girls in Conflict with the Law: Exploring the Construction of Female ‘Delinquency’ in Ontario, 1940–1960,” Canadian Journal of Women and the Law 12, no. 1 (2000): 1–35.

“Masking and Unmasking the Sexual Abuse of Children: Perceptions of Violence Against Children in ‘the Badlands’ of Ontario, 1916–1930,” Journal of Family History 25, no. 4 (2000): 504–27.

“Women and Work: Assessing Women’s Labour History in Canada,” Atlantis 25, no. 1 (Fall 2000): 51–62.

“Feminism and the Making of Canadian Working-Class History: Exploring the Past, Present and Future,” Labour/Le Travail 46 (2000): 127–66.

“Retorts, Runaways and Riots: Patterns of Resistance in Canadian Reform Schools for Girls, 1930–60” (co-authored with Tamara Myers), Journal of Social History (Spring 2001): 669–97.

Introduction to Part Four, “Women’s Activism and the State,” in Framing Our Past: Canadian Women’s History in the Twentieth Century, ed. Sharon Cook, Lorna McLean, and Kate O’Rourke (Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2001), 201–11.

“Consuming Issues: Women on the Left, Political Protest and the Organization of Homemakers, 1920–1960,” in Framing Our Past, 240–47.

Women’s Work: Re-Examining American and Canadian Labour History,” in Amerikanische Arbeitergeschichte Heute, ed. Irmgard Steinisch, Mitteilungsblatt des Instituts für soziale Bewegungen 25 (Bochum: Ruhr Universität, 2001), 67–88.

“Defining Sexual Promiscuity: ‘Race’, Gender, and Class in the Operation of Ontario’s Female Refuges Act, 1930–60,” in Crimes of Colour: Racialization and the Criminal Justice System in Canada, ed. Wendy Chan and Kiran Mirchandani (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2001), 45–63.

“‘She Is Hostile to Our Ways’: First Nations Girls Sentenced to the Ontario Training School for Girls, 1930–1960,” Law and History Review 20, no. 1 (Spring 2002): 59–96.

“Constructing Social and Moral Citizens: Male and Female Delinquency in English Canada,” in Contesting Canadian Citizenship: Historical Readings, ed. Robert Adamoski, Dorothy Chunn, and Robert Menzies (Peterborough, ON: Broadview Press, 2002), 337–58.

“‘We No Longer Respect the Law’: The Tilco Strike, Labour Injunctions, and the State,” Labour/Le Travail 53 (2004): 47–88.

“Reforming Women’s Reformatories: Elizabeth Fry, Penal Reform, and the State, 1950–1970,” Canadian Historical Review 85, no. 2 (June 2004): 227–52.

“Mobilizing Canadian Women for World War I,” in Canada and the Great War: Essays in Honour of Robert Craig Brown, ed. David MacKenzie (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005), 157–93.

“Robitnystia, Ukrainian Communists, and the ‘Porcupinism’ Debate: Reassessing Ethnicity, Gender and Class in Early Canadian Communism, 1922–1930,” Labour/Le Travail 56 (Fall 2005): 51–89.

“Domesticating Girls: The Sexual Regulation of Aboriginal and Working-Class Girls in Twentieth-Century Canada,” in Contact Zones: Aboriginal and Settler Women in Canada’s Colonial Past, ed. Katie Pickles and Myra Rutherdale (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2005), 179–204.

“Archiving Feminist Histories: Women, The ‘Nation’ and Metanarratives in Canadian Historical Writing,” Women’s Studies International Forum, 29, no. 3 (May–June 2006): 255–64.

“Remembering Texpack: Nationalism, Internationalism and Militancy in Canadian Unions in the 1970s,” Studies in Political Economy 78 (Fall 2006): 41–66.

“Making a Fur Coat: Women, the Labouring Body, and Working-Class History,” International Review of Social History 52 (2007): 241–70.

“The Beaver as Ideology: Constructing Images of Inuit and Native Life in Post–World War II Canada,” Anthropologica 49 (2007): 191–209.

“Introduction,” in Crossing Boundaries Women’ s Organizing in Europe and the Americas, 1880s–1940s, ed. Jonsson, Neunsinger, and Sangster, 9–20.

“Political Tourism, Writing and Communication: Transnational Connections of Women on the Left, 1920s–1940s,” in Crossing Boundaries: Women’s Organizing in Europe and the Americas, 1880s–1940s, ed. Jonsson, Neunsinger, and Sangster, 95–116.

“The Polish ‘Dionnes’: Gender, Ethnicity, and Immigrant Workers in Post–World War II Canada,” Canadian Historical Review 88, no. 3 (Fall 2007): 469–500.

“Constructing the ‘Eskimo’ Wife: White Women’s Travel Writing, Colonialism, and the Canadian North, 1940–1960,” in Creating Postwar Canada: Community, Diversity, and Dissent, 1945–75, ed. Magda Fahrni and Robert Rutherdale (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2008): 23–44.

“Historia Social,” Historia Social 60 (2008): 213–24.

“Queen of the Picket Line: Beauty Contests in the Post–World War II Labour Movement,” Labor: Studies in Working Class History of the Americas 5, no. 4 (2008): 83–106.

“Canada’s Cold War in Fur,” Left History 13, no. 2 (Spring 2009): 10–36.

“Feminists in Academe: From Outsiders to Insiders?” in Academic Callings: The University We Have Had, Now Have, and Could Have, ed. Janice Newson and Claire Polster (Toronto: Canadian Scholars’ Press, 2010), 178–86.

“Radical Ruptures: Feminism, Labor, and the Left in the Long Sixties in Canada,”American Review of Canadian Studies 40, no. 1 (2010): 1–21.

“Gendering Labour History Across Borders,” Labour History Review 75, no. 2 (August 2010): 143–61.

“Debating Maternity Rights: Pacific Western Airlines and Flight Attendants’ Struggles to ‘Fly Pregnant’ in the 1970s,” in Work on Trial: Canadian Labour Law Struggles, ed. Judy Fudge and Eric Tucker (Toronto: Irwin Law and the Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History, 2010), 283–314.

“Invoking Experience as Evidence,” Canadian Historical Review 92, no. 1 (March 2011): 135–61.