• Making Up the State

    Publisher: Acadiensis Press

    The latest original chapters in women’s studies from Atlantic Canada. While male policy-makers often “made it up” as they went along, an impressive number of women reformers, citizens and activists pushed for new ways of doing things. Fifteen contributors show how women in this region helped “make up” the modern state.

    $34.95
  • Separate Spheres Women’s Worlds in the 19th-Century Maritimes

    Publisher: Acadiensis Press

    A best-selling anthology of original articles about the history of women in the Maritime Provinces. The traditional stereotypes surrounding Victorian womanhood are challenged by authors who tell us about farm women and black women, about women in classrooms, churches and factories, about women who struggled against family violence, defended their property rights, participated in public events and campaigned for social reform. Contributors include Rusty Bittermann, Gail Campbell, Janet Guildford, Phillip Girard, Rebecca Veinott, Hannah Lane, Bonnie Huskins, Suzanne Morton, Sharon Myers, Judith Fingard and Gwendolyn Davies.

    $9.95