Joan Sangster is a professor of women's studies and history at Trent University, where she also teaches at the Frost Centre for Canadian Studies and Native Studies. Her most recent books are Girl Trouble: Female 'Delinquency' in English Canada and Transforming Labour: Women and Work in Postwar Canada.

Acknowledgements vii
Introduction
Reflections on Thirty Years of Women's History 1
Discovering Women's History 49
The 1907 Bell Telephone Strike
Organizing Women Workers 53
Looking Backwards
Re-assessing Women on the Canadian Left 81
The Communist Party and the Woman Question, 1922-1929 95
Manufacturing Consent in Peterborough 127
The Softball Solution
Female Workers, Male Managers, and the Operation of Paternalism at Westclox, 1923-1960 135
Pardon Tales' from Magistrate's Court
Women, Crime, and the Court in Peterborough County, 1920-1950 173
Telling Our Stories
Feminist Debates and the Use of Oral History 213
Foucault, Feminism, and Postcolonialism 2443
Girls in Conflict with the Law
Exploring the Construction of Female 'Delinquency' in Ontario, 1940-1960 251
Criminalizing the Colonized
Ontario Native Women Confront the Criminal Justice System, 1920-1960 293
Constructing the 'Eskimo' Wife
White Women's Travel Writing, Colonialism, and the Canadian North, 1940-1960 327
Embodied Experience 3555
Words of Experience/Experiencing Words
Reading Working Women's Letters to Canada's Royal Commission on the Status of Women 359
Making a Fur Coat
Women, the Labouring Body, and Working-class History 391
Publications by Joan Sangster 4255
Publication Credits 429

Through Feminist Eyes gathers in one volume the most incisive and insightful essays written to date by the distinguished Canadian historian Joan Sangster. To the original essays, Sangster has added reflective introductory discussions that situate her earlier work in the context of developing theory and debate. Sangster has also supplied an introduction to the collection in which she reflects on the themes and theoretical orientations that have shaped the writing of women's history over the past thirty years.
Approaching her subject matter from an array of interpretive frameworks that engage questions of gender, class, colonialism, politics, and labour, Sangster explores the lived experience of women in a variety of specific historical settings. In so doing, she sheds new light on issues that have sparked much debate among feminist historians and offers a thoughtful overview of the evolution of women's history in Canada.