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"Rat in the Box"

Susan McMaster

In "Rat in the Box," Susan McMaster reflects upon the deposition of her own papers, but also notes that these papers cannot be seen in isolation: the papers must be regarded as a part of the work of a larger cultural community. 

Table of Contents for
Basements and Attics, Closets and Cyberspace: Explorations in Women's Archives, edited by Linda M. Morra and Jessica Schagerl

Introduction: No Archive is Neutral | Linda M. Morra and Jessica Schagerl

I. Reorientations

Of Mini-Ships and Archives | Daphne Marlatt

Finding Indian Maidens on eBay: Tales of the Alternative Archive (and More Tales of White Commodity Culture) | Cecily Devereux

"Faster Than a Speeding Thought": Lemon Hound's Archive Unleashed | Karis Shearer and Jessica Schagerl

"I remember...I was wearing leather pants": Archiving the Repertoire of Feminist Cabaret in Canada | T.L. Cowan

"In the hope of making a connection": (Re)Reading Archival Bodies, Responses, and Love in Marian Engel's Bear and Alice Munro's "Meneseteung" | Catherine Bates

An Archive of Complicity: Ethically (Re)Reading the Documentaries of Nelofer Pazira | Hannah McGregor

Psyche and Her Helpers, under Cloud Cover | Penn Kemp

II. Restrictions

Archival Matters | Sally Clark

Keeping the Archive Door Open: Writing about Florence Carlyle | Susan Butlin

The Oral, the Archive, and Ethics: Canadian Women Writers Telling It | Andrea Beverley

Halted by the Archive: The Impact of Excessive Archival Restrictions on Scholars | Ruth Panofsky and Michael Moir

Personal Ethics: Being an Archivist of Writers | Catherine Hobbs

Invisibility Exhibit: The Limits of Library and Archives Canada's "Multicultural Mandate" | Karina Vernon

III. Responsibilities

Rat in the Box: Thoughts on Archiving My Stuff | Susan McMaster

Letters to the Woman's Page Editor: Francis Marion Beynon's "The Country Homemakers" and a Public Culture for Women | Katja Thieme

Archival Adventures with L.M. Montgomery; or, "As Long as the Leaves Hold Together" | Vanessa Brown and Benjamin Lefebvre

The Quality of the Carpet: A Consideration of Anecdotes in Researching Women's Lives | Linda M. Morra

"I want my story told": The Sheila Watson Archive, the Reader, and the Search for Voice | Paul Tiessen

"You can do with all this rambling whatever you want": Scrutinizing Ethics in the Alzheimer's Archives | Kathleen Venema

Locking Up Letters | Julia Creet

Afterword | Janice Fiamengo

Contributors

Index