Joan Sangster,
B.A. (Trent), M.A., Ph.D., (McMaster)
Professor
Email: jsangster@trentu.ca
Joan Sangster teaches History and Gender and Women's Studies, including courses on Canadian Women's History and Working-Class History; she is currently Director of the Frost Centre for Canadian Studies and Native Studies where she teaches in the doctoral Canadian Studies program. She is currently researching a book on women and paid labour from the end of World War II to the 1970s, as well as pursuing a project on 'Modernizing Colonialism', examining images of the First Nations in the post World War II period.
Recent Publications:
- “Constructing Social and Moral Citizens: Male and Female Delinquency in English Canada,” in R. Adanoski,
D. Chunn, R. Menzies, eds., Contesting Citizenship in Canada (Broadview Press, 2002).
- “‘We No Longer Respect the Law’: The Tilco Strike, Injunctions and the State,” Labour/le Travail, vol. 53, Spring 2004, 47-88.
- “Reforming Women’s Reformatories: Elizabeth Fry, Penal Reform and the State, 1950-70” Canadian
Historical Review vol. 85, no.2 (June 2004): 227-252.
Books include:
- Dreams of Equality: Women on the Canadian Left, 1920-60 (Oxford University Press)
- Earning Respect: The Lives of Working Women in Small-Town Ontario, 1920-1960, (University of Toronto Press, 1995)
- Regulating Girls and Women: Sexuality, Family and in the Law, Ontario 1920-60 (Oxford University Press,2001)
- Girl Trouble: Female ‘Delinquency’ in English Canada (Between the Lines Press, 2002)