A Reconstructed World
A Feminist Biography of Gertrude Richardson
1st Edition
Published on 14. May 2014
414 pages
978-0-7735-6592-0 (ISBN)
Description
The first biography of Gertrude Richardson (1875-1946), A Reconstructed World reveals her key role in the development of feminism and pacifism in England and Canada and her remarkable accomplishments as both an activist and a writer.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Montreal, QC
Canada
Edition type
Digital original
File size
24,32 MB
ISBN-13
978-0-7735-6592-0 (9780773565920)
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06/1996
McGill-Queen's University Press
€154.50
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Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: In Search of Gertie and the Mother-Hearts
- Abbreviations
- Illustrations
- 1 Destined for "True Womanhood:" Working Class Girlhood, Middle Class Education, Radical Social and Political Milieu (1875-1901)
- 2 Defeat and Victory: Collapse, Recovery, Respectability (1901-11)
- 3 New Destinies: Emigration, Settlement, Farm Wife, and Feminist Leader (1911-14)
- 4 Sisterhood Divided: Suffrage and the War (1914-17)
- 5 "My Soul Is Going Out from the 'Women's Movement' ": The Conscription Issue in Britain and Canada (1915-17)
- 6 Comrades of the New Womanhood: Canada's Women's Peace Crusade Versus "The Reign of Force" (1918-19)
- 7 Despair, Illness, Endurance, Loss, Death - No Happy Endings Here (1920-46)
- Epilogue: "These Things Were Worth Doing
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- Q
- R
- S
- T
- U
- V
- W
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