Sharon Anne Cook
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Books
Plots and Pans: A Book Club Cookbook, Toronto, Sumach Press, 2002, 260 pp. What food can be served by book clubs to enhance book discussions? This collaborative work provides a wealth of recipes, book-club hints and guideline questions to help book club organizers get the most out of their reading and eating.
"Through Sunshine and Shadow" The Woman's Christian Temperance Union, Evangelicalism, and Reform in Ontario, 1874-1930, Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1995, 281 pp. Women were central to successful temperance campaigns in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This history of the Ontario WCTU tells the story of the remarkable women who attacked alcohol and tobacco use, and supported women and children through a vast range of social activism.
Framing Our Past: Canadian Women’s History in the Twentieth Century, Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2001, 495 pp. Reissued by McGill-Queen’s University Press in soft cover in 2006. This edited collection of about 80 short articles based on archival documents supports women’s history for the pleasure of reading and in the classroom.
Sex, Lies and Cigarettes: Canadian Women, Smoking and Visual Culture, 1880-2008, Montreal and Kingston, McGill-Queens University Press, 2012, 418 pp. Why did women continue to choose to smoke long after the health dangers were documented? What social functions are served by women’s smoking? This history of tobacco and women – both as anti-tobacco advocates and committed users – charts tobacco’s enduring attraction for women through visual culture and documentary analysis.
Biography
Sharon Anne Cook is an historian of Canadian women’s and educational history, evangelicalism and temperance, smoking and peace education.
In book-length studies, she has explored the origins and strengths of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union in Ontario and the fortifying influence of evangelicalism on their broad program of social activism in 'Through Sunshine and Shadow" The Woman's Christian Temperance Union, Evangelicalism, and Reform in Ontario, 1874-1930, Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1995, 281 pp.; Canadian women’s historical experiences as reflected through (and based on) archival documents was edited with Lorna McLean and Kate O’Rourke in 2001, Framing Our Past: Canadian Women’s History in the Twentieth Century; women’s complex relationship with tobacco (both as smokers and as anti-tobacco advocates) is the subject of her 2012 volume, Sex, Lies and Cigarettes: Canadian Women, Smoking and Visual Culture, 1880-2008, Montreal and Kingston, McGill-Queens University Press, 2012, 418 pp. A second edited book, a cookbook for book clubs, was written with The SWIVEL Collective in 2002: Plots and Pans: A Book Club Cookbook. (Sumach Press).
In 2017, an illustrated history of the University of Ottawa Faculty of Education was published, (A History of the Faculty of Education, University of Ottawa, 1875 – 2015. Ottawa: Baico Publishing, 2017. 290 pp). The book tells the story of the bilingual culture, language and educational systems of the Faculty, defining the roots of this, the oldest bilingual educational institution in Canada.
In addition, she has published more than 45 refereed articles and chapters on these subjects.
For school use, she has published six instructional books for students at the intermediate and senior levels: The Depression Years: Canada in the 1930s Skillbook, Scarborough, Ontario: Prentice Hall Canada, 1981, Donald M. Santor, (Ed.) The Canadiana Scrapbook Series, 38 pp.; The Confident Years: Canada in the 1920s Skillbook, Scarborough, Ontario: Prentice Hall Canada, 1981, Donald M. Santor, (Ed.) The Canadiana Scrapbook Series, 37 pp; Canadians at War: 1914-1918; Skillbook, Scarborough, Ontario: Prentice-Hall Canada, 1981, Donald M. Santor, (Ed.) The Canadiana Scrapbook Series, 38 pp.; A Nation Beckons: Canada 1896-1914 Skillbook, Scarborough, Ontario: Prentice-Hall Canada, 1981, Donald M. Santor, (Ed.) The Canadiana Scrapbook Series, 38 pp.; Sharon Anne Cook & Maureen Radley-Walters, Canadian Patterns of Settlement in Canada, Toronto: Thomas Nelson & Sons, 1971, Peter Watson (Ed.), Nelson Canadian Studies Series, 49 pp.; Sharon Anne Cook & Peter Watson, Life in New France, Toronto: Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1971, Peter Watson (Ed.), Nelson Canadian Studies Series, 49 pp.
Sharon is grandmother to four beautiful and talented young women, mother to their accomplished fathers, and the doting owner of a Westipoo, Walter. In her spare time, she enjoys walking, swimming and kayaking.