Series 7 - Publishing

0.33 m of textual records

This series documents the publishing activities of Prof. Prentice in terms of book authored, edited, reviewed as well as the publications of papers in scholarly journals. Files contain correspondence, memos, notes, contracts relating to publishing much of the research documented in Series 8 Research. There are often drafts of articles or chapters submitted as well.

Some of the main publications documented in B1998-0017 include: Pioneer and Gentlewomen of British North America (1980) co-authored with Beth Light; The Neglected Majority (1977 Vol 1 and 1985 Vol 2), co-authored with Susan Mann Trofimenkoff; a collaborative textbook called Canadian Women: A Reader (1996); “Bluestockings, Feminists or Women Workers? A Preliminary Look at Women’s Early Employment at the University of Toronto in the Journal of the Canadian Historical Association (1991). This accession also contains reviews of many of Prentice’s publications as well as reviews that she published on other scholars’ works. Finally, filed at the end, is a file containing unpublished articles.

While B2009-0010 contains a second file on Canadian Women: A Reader (1996), most of the publications documented are more recent contributions to books and journals. To list a few, they are: a paper on women in physics in Challenging Professions: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on Women’s Professional ( 1999) which she co-edited with Elizabeth Smyth, Sandra Acker and Paula Bourne; several contributions on women and education history to The Oxford Companion to Canadian History (2001); a paper on faculty wives in the Historical Identities: The Canadian Professoriate (2006) by Lisa Panyotidis and Paul Stortz; a chapter on Canada in A companion to Women’s Historical Writing edited by Mary Spongberg, Barbara Caine and Ann Curthoys (2005). Also included is Prof Prentice’s paper written about her own experience as a feminist historian that was included in Minds of Our Owns: Inventing Feminist Scholarship and Women’s Studies in Canada 1965-1976 (2008).

B2015-0020 contained on published work Michael Katz, 1939-2014: A Tribute published in the Historical Studies in Education.

B2019-0015 contains files related to the Canadian Women’s History Project 1981-1988 which led to the publication of a collaborative book Canadian Women: a History. There is also one file of reviews written by Prentice.

For files relating to published works, arrangement is chronological. This is followed by reviews and unpublished works.