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Demanding equality : one hundred years of Canadian feminism / Joan Sangster.

"One hundred years of feminist activism, from the 1880s to the 1980s, presented multiple paths for women's search for equality, autonomy, and dignity. Women fashioned different dreams of freedom and social transformation, yet what is Canadian feminism? Demanding Equality illustrates femini...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Sangster, Joan, 1952- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Vancouver ; Toronto : UBC Press, 2021.
Subjects:
Feminism > Canada > History > 19th century.
Feminism > Canada > History > 20th century.
Feminists > Canada > History > 19th century.
Feminists > Canada > History > 20th century.
Women > Canada > Social conditions > 19th century.
Women > Canada > Social conditions > 20th century.
Women > Canada > History > 19th century.
Women > Canada > History > 20th century.
Feminism.
Feminists.
Women.
Women > Social conditions.
Canada.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • List of Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • 1 Spreading the Word of Women's Emancipation
  • 2 The Origins of Socialist and Labour Feminism
  • 3 Women, Democracy, and Suffrage
  • 4 Reform Feminism and Women's Right to Work
  • 5 Agrarian, Labour, and Socialist Feminism after the First World War
  • 6 Feminism and the Party Question
  • 7 Feminism, War, and Peace
  • 8 Feminism in a Cold War Climate
  • 9 Liberating Feminisms
  • 10 Feminist Organizing in the 1970s and 1980s
  • Afterword: The 1990s and Beyond
  • Notes
  • Index.

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