A Great Rural Sisterhood : : Madge Robertson Watt and the ACWW /

A Great Rural Sisterhood : : Madge Robertson Watt and the ACWW / / Linda M. Ambrose.

As the founding president of the Associated Country Women of the World (ACWW), Madge Robertson Watt (1868–1948) turned imperialism on its head. During the First World War, Watt imported the “made-in-Canada” concept of Women’s Institutes – voluntary associations of rural women – to the British countr...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter ACUP Complete eBook-Package 2015
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Ambrose, Linda M. ,
Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2015]
©2015
Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (360 p.) :; 24 b&w illustrations, 2 b&w tables
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction. Framing the Life of Madge Robertson Watt
  • Chapter One. Formative Years: Family Influences and University Life
  • Chapter Two. Scripting the New Woman: Writer and Editor
  • Chapter Three. Playing Multiple Parts: Family, Society, and Sorrow
  • Chapter Four. Role Reversal: From Colonial Widow to Imperial War Hero
  • Chapter Five. On the World Stage: Forging International Networks
  • Chapter Six. Sidelined by War: Waning Influence, Denial, and Death
  • Conclusion. Interpreting the Significance of Madge Watt
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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