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These 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.

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Contents 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

Gender Conflicts

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      Publisher University of Toronto Press
      Published 20 June 1992
      ISBN-13 9780802067739
      978-0802067739
      ISBN-10 0802067735

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      These 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 Contents
      Contents 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

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