Beyond the Vote : : Canadian Women and Politics / / ed. by Linda Kealey, Joan Sangster.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
• MitwirkendeR: Frager, Ruth A.,; Kealey, Linda,; Lindstrom-Best, Varpu,; Mann Trofimenkoff, Susan,; McCalla Vickers, Jill,; Myers, Patricia A.,; Newton, Janice,; Rankin, Pauline,; Roberts, Barbara,; Roome, Patricia,; Sangster, Joan,; Swyripa, Frances,; lacovetta, Franca,
• HerausgeberIn: Kealey, Linda,; Sangster, Joan,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]; ©1989
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (349 p.)

This collection of essays focuses on the experiences of women as political activists in twentieth-century Canada, both in the mainstream of party politics and in groups outside the mainstream. The latter include women in socialist and labour movements, the farm and peace movements, and women active in various ethnic communities. Expanding the noton of politics, the authors highlight the widespread nature of women's activism - particularly at the local level - and challenge the easy formulation that women were primarily interested in the vote and lost interest in politics when they acquired it. Some of the essays suggest that even the suffrage campaign has been misrepresented as solely a middle-class movement.Women evolved their own styles of political participation shaped by local contexts, class, culture, family, and lifestyle. Women often organized at the community level, and worked both in combination with men and in women-only settings. Contributors to this volume explore women's involvement in organizations from the political left to right, and women's efforts to shape Canada's political priorities and activities. Politically minded women often found that the best outlet for commitment and service was through women's organizations, which addressed their needs and provided a base for effective action.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- PART ONE: Reassessing Women in Canadian Politics -- Introduction -- Feminist Approaches to Women in Politics -- PART TWO: Canadian Women and the Old Parties -- ‘A Noble Effort’: The National Federation of Liberal Women of Canada, 1928–1973 -- ‘A Respectable Feminist’: The Political Career of Senator Cairine Wilson, 1921-1962 -- PART THREE: The Go-operative Commonwealth Federation -- Amelia Turner and Calgary Labour Women, 1919–1935 -- The Role of Women in the Early CCF, 1933–1940 -- Thérèse Casgrain and the CCF in Quebec -- PART FOUR: Labour, Socialist, and Communist Women -- Women in the Canadian Socialist Movement, 1904–1914 -- Finnish Socialist Women in Canada, 1890–1930 -- From Wage Slave to White Slave: The Prostitution Controversy and the Early Canadian Left -- PART FIVE: Politics and Community -- The Ideas of the Ukrainian Women’s Organization of Canada, 1930–1945 -- Politicized Housewives in the Jewish Communist Movement of Toronto, 1923–1933 -- Women’s Peace Activism in Canada -- The Politicization of Ontario Farm Women -- Abbreviations -- Contributors -- Index