Glance at Culture - Dr. Suzanne Evans on Womens' Stories, Propaganda During War, Creativity and Survival

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Show Notes:

0:00 Suzanne Evans’ hope for the legacy she is creating to tell and compel more women’s stories

1:35 Evans’ degree in philopshy lead to teaching English in China

2:30 Evans’ writing themes are women in Canada and women in war and religion

2:40 Canadian International Development Agency to organize educational briefings for Canadians going to work overseas

4:00 PhD in religious studies

4:40 martyrdom

5:20 Palestinian mother/martyr

6:00 Mothers of Heroes, Mothers of Martyrs: WWI and the Politics of Grief

7:00 Silver Cross mother and its development

8:00 how soldiers of war were presented in the media

8:20 post-doctoral fellowship at the Canadian War Museum to study stories of Canadian women and war

9:40 diary of WWI masseuse

10:00 study of physio-therapist in WWI and WWII

11:40 occupational therapy, including basketweaving, for wounded WWI veterans

12:30 Changi quilts made in Singapore’s Changi jail overtaken by Japanese

13:15 Ethel Mulvany’s Starving Prisoners of War Cookbook

14:45 research for The Taste of Longing: Ethel Mulvany and Her Starving Prisoners of War Cookbook

22:20 couple housed by Mulvany

24:15 Museum on Manitoulin Island

27:45 Mulvany’s suffering from bipolar disorder

28:45 how women’s stories from the war have been downgraded

32:00 recommended reading: Freddy Bloom’s Dear Philip: A Diary of Captivity, Changi, 1942-45

32:35 Mary Thomas’ In the Shadow of the Rising Sun

32:35 P.C. B. Newington’s Good Food

33:45 record-keeping from the WWII era

36:00 treatment of Mulvany for her mental illness

37:00 electric shock therapy without sedatives

37:20 insulin therapy treatment in India

38:15 War Claims Commission’s medical records for Mulvany

40:00 virtual feasts for book launch during pandemic

43:15 use of propaganda in WWI and WWII

45:40 upcoming cookbook project

46:10 Five Roses Enriched Floor Cookbook

49:00 Evans’ definition of justice

50:00 Walter Allward's statue of justice
52:45 Per Allward: "Through truth and justice, war might cease and peace would descend over the earth."
53:20 Persons case in 1928 - Canada’s Supreme Court denied women could be deemed “persons”; overturned by Judicial Privy Counsel

54:25 “justice is shifting in our time…I don’t want my justice to be blindfolded; I want her to be far sighted so that she can see change and adapt.”

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