Description
Book SynopsisIn a wide-ranging survey of Canadian feminism from the 1880s to the 1980s, Demanding Equality reveals a continuous, vibrant, and often contentious search for equality, autonomy, and dignity.
Trade Review"There are few, if any, historians better placed than Joan Sangster to write a history of a century of feminism in Canada...
Demanding Equality is a book that is at once capacious in its scope and accessibly written." -- Magda Fahrni, Universite du Quebec a Montreal * Labour / Le Travail *
Sangster’s precisely written yet wideranging book is a tour de force that chronicles the struggles for ‘equality, autonomy, and dignity’ in all of their rich complexity.
-- Elaine Coburn, York University * Literary Review of Canada *
"Demanding Equality is a formidable book, wide in scope, commendably readable, expansive in content, and convincing in analysis."
-- Rebecca Priegert Coulter, Professor Emerita, University of Western Ontario. * University of Toronto Quarterly *
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Demanding Equality] is an impressively balanced account that will undoubtedly become required reading for gender and women's history classes across the country. -- Catherine Carstairs, University of Guelph * JACANZ, Vol. 1, Issue 2 *
Table of ContentsIntroduction
1 Spreading the Word of Women's Emancipation
2 The Origins of Socialist and Labour Feminism
3 Feminism, 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
11 Afterword: Feminist Challenges of the 1990s and Beyond
Notes; Index
