Breaking Barriers, Shaping Worlds

OCTOBER 2020

240 pages, 6 x 9 in., 23 b&w photos 978-0-7748-6640-8 HC $89.95 USD / £59.99 GBP also available as an e-book

CANADIAN HISTORY / DIPLOMATIC HISTORY / WOMEN’S STUDIES / INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

JILL CAMPBELL-MILLER is an adjunct professor in the Department of History at Saint Mary’s University. The late GREG DONAGHY was the director of the Bill Graham Centre for Contemporary International History at the University of Toronto. STACEY BARKER is a historian at the Canadian War Museum in Ottawa.

CONTRIBUTORS: Stacey Barker, Jill CampbellMiller, Joe Clark, Susan Colbourn, Sharon Anne Cook, Jonathan Crossen, Greg Donaghy, Eric Fillion, Kim Girouard, Dominique Marshall, Steve Marti, Francine McKenzie, Lorna R. McLean, Patricia E. Roy, David Webster

Canadian Women and the Search for Global Order

Edited by Jill Campbell-Miller, Greg Donaghy, and Stacey Barker

“Emphasizing the importance of broad participative decisionmaking, of quiet compromises, and of local domestic work outside the elite world of official diplomats, Breaking Barriers, Shaping Worlds adds to an exciting transformation in our official understanding of foreign policy and what it can achieve.”

— ISABEL CAMPBELL, senior historian, Directorate of History and Heritage, National Defence Headquarters

Where are the women in Canada’s international history? Breaking Barriers, Shaping Worlds answers this question in a comprehensive volume that explores the role of women in Canadian international affairs.

Foreign policy historians have traditionally focused on powerful men. Though hidden, forgotten, or ignored, this book shows that women have also shaped Canada’s international relations with the world over the past century – whether as activists, missionaries, aid workers, diplomats, or diplomatic spouses. Breaking Barriers, Shaping Worlds examines the lives and careers of professional women working abroad as doctors, nurses, or economic development advisers; women fighting for change as anti-war, anti-nuclear, or Indigenous rights activists; and women engaged in traditional diplomacy. This wide-ranging collection reveals the vital contribution of women to the search for global order that has been a hallmark of Canada’s international history.

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