TY  - BOOK
AU  - Swyripa,Frances
TI  - Wedded to the Cause: Ukrainian-Canadian Women and Ethnic Identity 1891-1991 
T2  - Heritage
SN  - 9780802069399
AV  - F1035.U5 S99 1993
U1  - 305.48/891791071 20
PY  - 1993///]
CY  - Toronto : 
PB  - University of Toronto Press, 
KW  - Ukrainians
KW  - Canada
KW  - Ethnic identity
KW  - Women
KW  - History
KW  - Identity
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / General
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - restricted access
N2  - Frances Swyripe here presents the interpretive study of women of Ukrainian origin in Canada. She analyses the images and myths that have grown up around them, why they arose, and how they were used by the leaders of the community. Swyripa argues that ethnicity combined with gender to shape the experience of Ukrainian-Canadian women, as statelessness and national oppression in the homeland joined with a negative group stereotype and minority status in emigration to influence women's roles and options. She explores community attitudes towards the peasant immigrant pioneer, towards her daughters exposed to the opportunities, prejudice, and assimilatory pressure of the Anglo-Canadian world, towards the 'Great Women' evoked as models and sources of inspiration, and towards the familiar baba. In these stereotypes of the female figure, and in the activities of women's organizations, the community played out its many tensions: between a strong attachment to canada and an equally strong attachment to Ukraine; between nationalists who sought to liberate Ukraine from Polish and Soviet rule and progressives who saw themselves as part of an international proletariat; between women's responsibilities as mothers and homemakers and their obligation to participate in both Canadian and community life. Swyripa finds that the concerns of community leaders did not always coincide with those of the grassroots. The differences were best expressed in the evolution of the peasant immigrant pioneer woman as a group symbol, where the tensions between a cultural ethnic consciousness and a politicized national consciousness as the core of Ukrainian-Canadian identity were played out in the female figure
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