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Book SynopsisThese essays represent an exciting breakthrough in women's studies, expanding the borders of the discipline while breaking down barriers between mainstream and women's history.
Table of ContentsContents Contributors / Introduction 1 'When the Mother of the Race Is Free': Race, Reproduction, and Sexuality in First-Wave Feminism Mariana Valverde 2 'Maidenly Girls' or 'Designing Women'? The Crime of Seduction in Turn-of-the-Century Ontario Karen Dubinsky 3 The 'Hallelujah Lasses': Working-Class Women in the Salvation Army in English Canada, 1882-92 Lynne Marks 4 The Alchemy of Politicization: Socialist Women and the Early Canadian Left Janice Newton 5 Wounded Womanhood and Dead Men: Chivalry and the Trials of Clara Ford and Carrie Davies Carolyn Strange 6 Class, Ethnicity, and Gender in the Eaton Strikes of 1912 and 1934 Ruth A. Frager 7 'Feminine Trifles of Vast Importance': Writing Gender into the History of Consumption Cynthia Wright 8 Making 'New Canadians': Social Workers, Women, and the Reshaping of Immigrant Families Franca Iacovetta
