Franca Iacovetta (born 1957) is a " feminist/

socialist Socialism is a left-wing economic philosophy and movement encompassing a range of economic systems characterized by the dominance of social ownership of the means of production as opposed to private ownership. As a term, it describes the ...

" historian of

labour Labour or labor may refer to: * Childbirth, the delivery of a baby * Labour (human activity), or work ** Manual labour, physical work ** Wage labour, a socioeconomic relationship between a worker and an employer ** Organized labour and the labour ...

and

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currently working at the

University of Toronto The University of Toronto (UToronto or U of T) is a public university, public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, located on the grounds that surround Queen's Park (Toronto), Queen's Park. It was founded by royal charter in 1827 ...

. Her dissertation, published as ''Such Hardworking People: Italian Immigrants in Postwar Toronto'', was supervised by

York University York University (french: Université York), also known as YorkU or simply YU, is a public university, public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is Canada's fourth-largest university, and it has approximately 55,700 students, 7,0 ...

Ramsay Cook George Ramsay Cook (28 November 1931 – 14 July 2016) was a Canadian historian and general editor of the ''Dictionary of Canadian Biography''. He was professor of history at the University of Toronto, 1958–1968; York University, 1969–1 ...

. She has since edited numerous collections of case studies, examining the lives of so-called "marginalized peoples" in Canada and the United States. Her most recent book ''Gatekeepers'' was awarded the

Canadian Historical Association The Canadian Historical Association (CHA; French ''Société historique du Canada'', SHC) is a Canadian organization founded in 1922 for the purposes of promoting historical research and scholarship. It is a bilingual, not-for-profit, charitable o ...

John A. Macdonald Sir John Alexander Macdonald (January 10 or 11, 1815 – June 6, 1891) was the first prime minister of Canada, serving from 1867 to 1873 and from 1878 to 1891. The dominant figure of Canadian Confederation, he had a political career that sp ...

Prize in 2008. She has been critical of J. L. Granatstein, who questioned the dominance of social history in recent Canadian historical-writing in ''

Who Killed Canadian History? ''Who Killed Canadian History?'' is a 1998 book by Canadian historian J. L. Granatstein. The book argues that Canadians lack national unity because of their failure to teach their country's history. Granatstein contends that multiculturalism, ...

'', calling it a "clearly offensive", "ill-conceived little book".Franca Iacovetta, "Gendering Trans/National Historiographies: Feminists Rewriting Canadian History," ''

Journal of Women's History The ''Journal of Women's History'' is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal established in 1989 covering women's history. It explores multiple perspectives of feminism rather than promoting a single unifying form. Articles published in this ...

'', Vol. 19, No. 1 (2007), 209-210.

Selected bibliography

*''Such Hardworking People: Italian Immigrants in Postwar Toronto'' (MQUP 1992) *''Enemies Within: Italian and Other Wartime Internments in Canada and Beyond'', co-ed with R. Perin and A. Principe (UTP 2000) *''Women, Gender and Transnational Lives: Italy's Workers of the World'', co-ed with D. Gabaccia (UTP 2002) *''Sisters or Strangers?: Immigrant, Ethnic and Racialized Women in Canadian History'', co-ed with M. Epp and F. Swyripa (Toronto 2003); *''Gatekeepers: Reshaping Immigrant Lives in Cold Ward Canada'' (Toronto, 2006)

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Faculty page at the University of Toronto
1957 births 21st-century Canadian historians 21st-century Canadian women writers Canadian feminist writers Canadian socialists Canadian women historians Feminist historians Immigration historians Labor historians Living people University of Toronto Scarborough faculty {{Canada-historian-stub