Hilda Neatby Prize
The purpose of the Hilda Neatby Prize in Women's History, awarded since 1982 by the CCWH at the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Historical Association, is to encourage the publication of scholarly articles on women's history in Canadian journals and books. Two prizes are awarded, one for the best article in English, the other for the best article in French. Any academic article published in Canada and deemed to make an original and scholarly contribution to the field of women's history is eligible.
2011 Call for Submissions
Any English-language academic article published in Canada during 2010 and deemed to make an original and scholarly contribution to the field of women's and gender history as it relates to women is eligible for nomination for the 2011 Neatby Prize. Any French-language academic article published in a Canadian or International journal or book during the period 2008-2010 and deemed to make an original and scholarly contribution to the field of women’s and gender history as it relates to women is eligible for nomination for the 2011 Neatby Prize.
Send nominations, with three (3) copies of the nominated article, before 1 February 2011 to the Chair of the Hilda Neatby Prize Committee, Dr. Lynne Marks.
English-Language Prize Winner 2010
Shirley Tillotson. "The Family as Tax Dodge: Partnership, Individuality, and Gender in the Personal Income Tax Act, 1942 to 1970," Canadian Historical Review 90, 3 (2009), 391-425.
Shirley Tillotson has produced an original and intelligent, as well as sophisticated and eloquently written, study of how gender has historically shaped Canadian tax policy. The article is a major contribution to our understanding of the welfare state, the family economy, feminist theory and political history. She forces us to reconsider women’s engagement with the state, not only within public forums, but from within the family as well. In this way Tillotson demonstrates the centrality of gender to political studies.
Shirley Tillotson a réalisé une étude tout à la fois originale et intelligente, complexe et éloquente sur l’influence que les disparités entre hommes et femmes ont toujours eue au niveau de la politique fiscale canadienne. Son article représente une importante contribution à la connaissance sur l’État-providence, l’économie familiale, la théorie féministe et l’histoire politique. Elle force le lecteur à revoir l’interaction des femmes avec l’État, non seulement dans la sphère publique, mais aussi dans le cadre familial. Du coup, Tillotson prouve la centralité de la question des sexes dans le domaine des études politiques.
French-Language Prize Winner 2010
Elise Detellier. “Bonifier le capital humain”: Le Genre dans le descours médical et religieux sur le sports au Québec, 1920-1950,” RHAF 62, 3-4 (Hiver-Printemps 2009): 473-499.
In the best traditions of gender history, Elise Detellier’s article draws together a range of themes including gender, language, sexuality and ideas of nation. Her article explains how the connection between moral and physical health for men and women were constructed in relation to each other and yet produced different opportunities for their participation in sport. One of the critical insights this piece offers is an explanation for why women’s sports remained underdeveloped by the post-war period in Quebec. The author is to be commended for drawing on an expansive historiographical tradition, including the international literature on sports as well as French and English scholarship in Canada.
Dans la grande tradition de l’histoire des genres, l’article d’Élise Detellier couvre un éventail de thèmes allant de la problématique hommes-femmes à la langue, en passant par la sexualité et les concepts de la nation. Elle y explique comment le lien entre la santé morale et physique des hommes et des femmes a pu être conçu l’un en fonction de l’autre, mais pourtant donner lieu à des occasions différentes d’accès à des activités sportives. Parmi les détails cruciaux qu’elle apporte, l’auteure explique pourquoi les sports féminins sont restés embryonnaires au Québec jusqu’à la période d’après-guerre. Il faut féliciter Detellier d’avoir su puiser dans une grande variété de sources historiographiques, y compris la littérature internationale sur les sports ainsi que les travaux publiés aussi bien au Canada français qu’anglais.