Product Description: Talks about women's lived experience. Drawing from diaries, oral history, letters, organizational records, paintings, dressmaking patterns, milliners' records, and posters, this work offers fresh interpretations of this historical material and insights into the lives of individual Canadian women who expanded the boundaries of traditional roles...read more

Product Description: With introductory essays written by historians, "Framing Our Past" emphasizes the lived experiences of women: their participation in many areas; social rituals with other women; organized sporting clubs; philanthropic, spiritual and aesthetic activities; study and reading groups...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)