Demanding Equality

Joan Sangster is Vanier Professor Emeritus at Trent University and a past president of the Canadian Historical Association/Société historique du Canada. She is the author of One Hundred Years of Struggle: The History of Women and the Vote in Canada; Transforming Labour: Women and Work in Postwar Canada; and The Iconic North: Cultural Constructions of Aboriginal Life in Postwar Canada.

• Introduction1 Spreading the Word of Women's Emancipation2 The Origins of Socialist and Labour Feminism3 Feminism, Democracy, and Suffrage4 Reform Feminism and Women's Right to Work5 Agrarian, Labour, and Socialist Feminism after the First World War6 Feminism and the Party Question7 Feminism, War, and Peace8 Feminism in a Cold War Climate9 Liberating Feminisms10 Feminist Organizing in the 1970s and 1980s11 Afterword: Feminist Challenges of the 1990s and BeyondNotes; Index

"There are few, if any, historians better placed than Joan Sangster to write a history of a century of feminism in Canada... Demanding Equality is a book that is at once capacious in its scope and accessibly written." - Magda Fahrni, Universite du Quebec a Montreal (Labour / Le Travail) Sangster's precisely written yet wideranging book is a tour de force that chronicles the struggles for 'equality, autonomy, and dignity' in all of their rich complexity.- Elaine Coburn, York University (Literary Review of Canada) "Demanding Equality is a formidable book, wide in scope, commendably readable, expansive in content, and convincing in analysis."- Rebecca Priegert Coulter, Professor Emerita, University of Western Ontario. (University of Toronto Quarterly) "In Demanding Equality, Joan Sangster demonstrates the confidence and virtuosity of a well-seasoned scholar at the top of her game."- Sarah Glassford, University of Windsor (Social History) [Demanding Equality] is an impressively balanced account that will undoubtedly become required reading for gender and women's history classes across the country. - Catherine Carstairs, University of Guelph (JACANZ, Vol. 1, Issue 2)