Great Dames is a collection of biographical sketches, memoirs,
and essays about twentieth-century Canadian women from all walks of
life. While attempting to capture the meaning of the ordinary lives
of extraordinary women, it also explores the possibility of
challenging, even subverting, the traditional view of life writing
as an endeavour to summarize and fix in time, the public careers of
public men. The fifteen essays represent a variety of alternative
approaches to feminist biography, including chronological
narrative, thematic exploration, multiple biography, conversations
between biographer and subject, interviews, diaries, and even
fictional accounts.
In selecting their subjects, from Mennonite refugee women to an
Ojibwa ethnologist, the contributors were asked to consider women
who would be unlikely candidates for longer biographies; in the
course of their research, however, it became clear that the lives
of at least two of the chosen subjects warranted book-length
examination. The selection also attempts to address perceived gaps
in regional, class, racial, and disciplinary representation in life
writing.
Together, the essays reveal that the content, form, and
perspective of biography are now bound only by the creativity,
research energy, and taste of the biographer.
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