On the eve of celebrating the 100th anniversary of women's right to vote in Canada comes a book, the first in a series on women's suffrage and the struggle for democracy, by acclaimed historian Joan Sangster.
The achievement of the vote in 1918 is often presented as a triumphant moment in the onward, upward advancement of Canadian women. In this beautifully illustrated book, acclaimed historian Joan Sangster looks beyond the shiny rhetoric of anniversary celebrations and Heritage Minutes to show that the struggle for equality included gains and losses, inclusions and exclusions, depending on a woman's race, class, and location in the nation.
Beginning with Mary Shadd Cary's demands for equal rights for women and blacks in the 1850s and ending with Indigenous women's achievement of the vote in the 1960s, Sangster travels back in time to tell a new, more inclusive story for a new generation.
The history of the vote, as Joan Sangster tells it, offers vital insights into our political life, exposing not only the fissures of inequality that cut deep into our country's past but also their weaknesses in the face of resistance, optimism, and protest - an inspiring legacy that still resonates to this day.
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Joan 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,)
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Höhe: 216 mm
Breite: 140 mm
Dicke: 20 mm
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978-0-7748-3534-3 (9780774835343)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Joan Sangster is the author of numerous books and articles on the history of women in Canada, including Earning Respect: The Lives of Working Women in Small-Town Ontario, 1920-60, which won the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences's Harold Adams Innis Prize. She is Vanier Professor in the Department of Gender and Women's Studies and director of the Frost Centre for Canadian Studies and Indigenous Studies at Trent University. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.
Preface
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
