Ricci, Amanda. "Contesting the Nation(S): Haitian and Mohawk Women’S Activism in Montreal." Women’S Activism and “Second Wave” Feminism
Ricci, Amanda. "Contesting the Nation(s): Haitian and Mohawk Women’s Activism in Montreal." Women’s Activism and “Second Wave” Feminism. By Barbara Molony and Jennifer Nelson. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2017. 273–294. Bloomsbury Collections. Web. 25 Sep. 2021. <http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781474250542.ch-013>. Downloaded from Bloomsbury Collections, www.bloomsburycollections.com, 25 September 2021, 16:54 UTC. Copyright © Barbara Molony, Jennifer Nelson and Contributors 2017. You may share this work for non-commercial purposes only, provided you give attribution to the copyright holder and the publisher, and provide a link to the Creative Commons licence. 273 1 3 Contesting the Nation(s): Haitian and Mohawk Women’s Activism in Montreal Amanda Ricci Th is chapter comes out of a dissatisfaction with how we understand the so- called second wave feminist movement, that is, the resurgence of feminist activism in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s, in Canada, and in particular in Montreal. While there have been a number of compelling studies on feminism in the province of Quebec, the historiography tends to focus on predominately white, French- and English- speaking women. Indeed, Montreal’s women’s history— for various reasons— nearly exclusively portrays the lives of working- , middle- , and upper- class French Catholic, English Protestant, and Ashkenazi Jewish women.1 Building on recent scholarship, this chapter seeks to shed light on the multiplicity of women- centered narratives in Montreal, thus expanding the narrative regarding this period of Canadian women’s history. 2 At the crossroads of the two Canadas, French and English, Quebec’s metropolis was, and remains, a contested space.
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