A not unreasonable claim : women and reform in Canada, 1880s-1920s

Kealey, Linda, 1947- (editor).

Summary: Ten years ago, a collection such as this could not have appeared because research interest in the history of women in Canada was very small. Since then, new initiatives in social history and a resurgence of the feminist movement have encouraged work in these areas... This book is the product of academic historians, employed for the most part at Canadian colleges and universities. It also reflects the growth and vibrancy of current historical scholarship on women. --

Record details

ISBN: 0889610525 (paperback) :
Physical Description: 233 pages ; 22 cm
print
Publisher: Toronto : Women's Press, [1979]
Copyright: ©1979

Content descriptions

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Includes bibliographical references.

Formatted Contents Note:

'Rocking the cradle for the world' : the new woman and maternal feminism, Toronto, 1877-1914 / Wayne Roberts -- Flora MacDonald Denison : Canadian feminist / Deborah Gorham -- The Fédération Nationale Saint-Jean Baptiste and the women's movement in Quebec / Marie Lavigne, Yolande Pinard and Jennifer Stoddart -- Divided allegiances : the response of farm and labour women to suffrage / Carol Bacchi -- Canada's women doctors : feminism constrained / Veronica Strong-Boag -- Ladies or midwives? Efforts to reduce infant and maternal mortality / Suzann Buckley -- The WCTU : 'For God, home and native land' : a study in nineteenth-century feminism / Wendy Mitchinson -- 'Transplanting from dens of iniquity' : theology and child emigration / Joy Parr -- 'A work of empire' : Canadian reformers and British female immigration / Barbara Roberts.