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Frances H. Early <frances.early@msvu.ca> Mount Saint Vincent University Women's antiwar activism in the l960s with special reference to the international role of the Voice of Women of Canda. Contemporary North American popular culture's narration and imaging of the female just warrior. |
| Address: | History Department Mount Saint Vincent University Halifax, Nova Scotia B3M 2J6 Canada |
| Primary Phone: | 902-457-6225 |
| Fax Number: | 902-457-6455 |
| List Affiliations: | Advisory Board Member for H-Peace |
| Interests: | American History / Studies Women, Gender, and Sexuality |
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Bio: I have a B.A. in American Studies from Florida State University (Tallahassee) and an M.A. and a Ph.D. in History from Concordia University (Montreal). In relation to my Ph.D. disseration on French-Canadian immigration to the United States in the late l9th century, I have written and published on family and immigrant history, including the editing of a memoir of a French-Canadian immigrant to Lowell, Massachusetts, enttitled IMMIGRANT ODYSSEY (U of Maine Press at Orono, 1991). Since the mid-l980s my research has concentrated on women/gender in relation to peace and war. I have published key articles and a book in this area; my book, A WORLD WITHOUT WAR: HOW U.S. FEMINISTS AND PACIFISTS RESISTED WORLD WAR I (Syracuse U P, 1997), won the Warren K. Kuehl Award in Peace/International History. Most recently, I have been studying contemporary popular culture's treatment of the female just warrrior, notably in relation to l990s women warrior television episodics; I have co-edited and contributed an essay to an anthology on this topic, ATHENA'S DAUGHTERS: TELEVISON'S NEW WOMEN WARRIORS (Syracuse U P, 2002). I have tenure in the History Department at Mount Saint Vincent University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. I teach North American social history, including women/gender, Afro-North American, childhood, and protest movement theme courses. I helped to create the Women's Studies Program and Department at the Mount over the l980s and served as Chair of that department while also remaining in my home department, History. I was a founding member and first president of the Canadian Women's Studies Association (1982-83). I have also helped to develop the Peace & Conflict Studies Program at our university and, most recently, the Cultural Studies Program. I served as the first woman president of the Peace History Society in l997 and l998 and organized symposia and an international conference at The Hague in relation to PHS. |
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