Beyond the Vote : : Canadian Women and Politics /

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

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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...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (349 p.)
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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

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