Dreams of Equality : : Women on the Canadian Left, 1920-1950 / / Joan Sangster.

Canadian women on the political left in the first half of the twentieth century fought with varying degrees of commitment for women's rights. Women's dreams of equality were in part a vision of economic and class equality, though they also represented profound desires for equality with men...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
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Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]
©1989
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
Series:Canadian Social History Series
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Physical Description:1 online resource (272 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • 1. Theory and Practice: Early Canadian Socialists Explore the Woman Question
  • 2. The Communist Party Confronts the Woman Question
  • 3. Red Revolutionaries and Pink Tea Pacifists: Communist and Socialist Women in the Early 1930’s
  • 4. Militant Mothering: Women in the Early CCF
  • 5. More Militant Mothering: Communist Women During the Popular Front
  • 6. From Working for War to Prices and Peace: Communist Women During the 1940’s
  • 7. The CCF Confronts the Woman Question
  • 8. Conclusion: Women and the Party Question
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • Backmatter