Coming in from the Cold: Reflections on the History of Women in Northern Canada

Authors

  • Charlene Porsild

Keywords:

Northern Canada, Canadian history

Abstract

Although there have been a number of recent publications documenting and interpreting women's northern experiences, northern women's lives remain relatively under-studied in Canada. This essay examines the major published works on the history of women in the Canadian North since 1975, discusses some of the new models, and suggests possibilities for new research.

Metrics

Metrics Loading ...

Author Biography

Charlene Porsild

Charlene Porsild is a former Yukoner and Fulbright Scholar who teaches Canadian and American history at the University of Nebraska. Her recent book, Gamblers and Dreamers: Women, Men, and Community in the Klondike, won the Canadian Historical Association's Clio Prize and the W. Turrentine Jackson Prize from the Western History Association.

Downloads

Published

2000-10-01

Issue

Vol. 25 No. 1 (2000): Special Issue: Feminism and Canadian History (25th anniversary volume part one)

Section

Original Research

License

Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:

1. Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication, with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.

2. Authors are aware that articles published in Atlantis are indexed and made available through various scholarly and professional search tools, including but not limited to Erudit.

3. Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.

4. Authors are permitted and encouraged to preprint their work, that is, post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process. This can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work. Read more on preprints here.