Moving Beyond Borders: A History of Black Canadian and Caribbean Women in the Diaspora by Karen Flynn

• Wed, 02/15/2012 - 5:00pm - 7:00pm

BOOK LAUNCH
Moving Beyond Borders:
A History of Black Canadian and Caribbean Women in the Diaspora

Wednesday, February 15
5:00 – 7:00 p.m. Reception to follow
All Saints’ Church, 330 City Hall Square W.

Karen Flynn uses oral narratives to examine the experiences of Black Canadian and Caribbean-born women who trained as nurses in Windsor and Chatham hospitals following WW II. Despite entering an occupation that defined itself around the Victorian ideal of “true womanhood,” an archetype that excluded Black women, these women secured a place in the profession. Flynn argues that their determination to break the colour barrier in nursing was first forged within the context of childhood, then, shaped and reshaped by migration, professional training, and their roles as wives, mothers, single women, and community activists. At the heart of this book is a narrative of adaptation and resilience.

Karen Flynn is assistant professor in Women and Gender Studies at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Dr. Flynn received her PhD in Women's Studies from York University, and her Master's and Bachelor's degrees in History from the University of Windsor.

Sponsored by —
Department of History, University of Windsor
Women’s Studies, University of Windsor
Faculty of Nursing, University of Windsor
Canada Research Chair in History of International Health, University of Windsor
North American Black Historical Museum
Essex County Black Historical Research Society
Hôtel-Dieu Grace Hospital

free and open to the public

for more information, visitor www.uwindsor.ca/womens