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Recent Works in Twentieth-Century Women’s, Gender, and “New Political” History

This review essay considers three important new books from established scholars of Canadian women’s and gender history: Julie Guard’s Radical Housewives, Valerie Korinek’s Prairie Fairies, and Wendy Mitchinson’s Fighting Fat. Although covering different topics and employing different kinds of approaches, taken together, these three studies highlight the long-standing commitment of women’s and gender historians to embrace interdisciplinary insights and to link the past to the present. This review also suggests that, given the analysis of power and interpretive innovations represented by these three studies, the field of women’s and gender history should be seen as a source of some of the best “new political history.” Finally, considered in light of important historical works that draw on queer theory, fat studies, and the intersections of gender with race, ethnicity, and colonialism, these three books open the door to crucial questions that historians in the field must continue to ask.