Dreams of equality : women on the Canadian left, 1920-1950 /

Canadian women on the political left in the first half of the twentieth century fought with varying degrees of commitment for women's rights. Women's dreams of equality were in part a vision of economic and class equality, though they also represented profound desires for equality with men...

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Main Author: Sangster, Joan, 1952- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2014.
Series:Canadian social history series.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Theory and practice: early Canadian socialists explore the woman question
  • The communist party of Canada confronts the woman question
  • Red revolutionaries and pink tea pacifists: communist and socialist women in the early 1930's
  • Militant mothering: women in the early CCF
  • More militant mothering: communist women during the popular front
  • From working for war to prices and peace: communist women during the 1940's
  • The CCF confronts the woman question
  • Conclusion: women and the party question.