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Beyond the vote : Canadian women and politics / edited by Linda Kealey and Joan Sangster

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Toronto [Ont.] : University of Toronto Press, [1989]
Copyright Date
©1989
Physical Description
1 online resource (vi, 349 pages)
Additional Creators
Kealey, Linda, 1947- and Sangster, Joan, 1952-
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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
Summary
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.
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9781442671386 (electronic bk.)
1442671386 (electronic bk.)
1282056174
9781282056176
9780802066503
080202677X (bound)
080206650X (pbk.)
9780802026774 (alk. paper)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references.
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