Feminism, History and Writing British Columbia's Past
Keywords:
Feminism, Historiography, British Columbia, Anti-racism, Gender historyAbstract
This paper discusses how three generations of historians have brought the insights of feminism to bear on British Columbia's past. In the early twentieth-century, feminist historians celebrated white women's role in colonization; in the 1970s they asserted that "women were there"; in the past two decades they have turned their attention to the relationship among gender, race, and class. We can build on this history. I argue, by addressing the critiques of anti-racist feminism and demonstrating the centrality of gender to British Columbian history as a whole.Metrics
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