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Book SynopsisAcclaimed historian Joan Sangster celebrates the 100th anniversary of Canadian women getting the federal vote with a look at the real struggles women faced, depending on their race, class, and location in the nation, in their fight for equality.
Trade ReviewJoan Sangster's
One Hundred Years of Struggle jolts us back into women's often grim historical reality, reminding us that the political rights that we often take for granted today were keenly opposed in years past. -- Susan Whitney, associate professor of history, Carleton University * Literary Review of Canada *
Joan Sangster’s clear, concise, and lively treatment of the women’s suffrage movement in Canada provides a broad historical survey…One Hundred Years of Struggle succeeds remarkably well in presenting ideas in an accessible way without oversimplifying them.
-- Barbara Messamore, University of the Fraser Valley * The Ormsby Review *
Sangster’s honest analysis of the role that imperial and racist attitudes played (and continue to play) in the fight for women’s equal political participation offers a challenge to those who believe that struggles associated with women’s suffrage are entirely historical. -- Stephanie Milliken * THIS Magazine, March 2018 *
Now this is one of those books you need to read and you need to buy for others, especially now as women are facing watershed moments on many fronts. In this fantastic book, acclaimed historian Joan Sangster celebrates the 100th anniversary of Canadian women getting the vote not with rah, rah speeches and pleasantries, but with looks at the real warriors and the real struggles women faced … this comprehensive book truly reminds the reader of what determination and dedication can do.
-- Dana Gee * Vancouver Sun *
Under one cover, One Hundred Years brings together aspects of the story that have hitherto been scattered throughout the historiography and reflects the growing maturity of the field of women’s/gender history.
-- Dianne Dodd, Parks Canada * Manitoba History Journal, Issue 88, *
Table of ContentsPreface
1 The Privilege of Property
2 Race and the Idea of Rights for Women
3 Suffrage as a Socialist Issue
4 Making Suffragists
5 The Anti-suffragists
6 Feminist Countercultures
7 Debating War and Peace
8 Old and New Agendas in Peacetime
9 Votes for All Women
Afterword
Sources and Further Reading; Photo Credits; Index
