Demanding Equality

One Hundred Years of Canadian Feminism

Häftad, Engelska, 2022

AvJoan Sangster

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For one hundred years women fashioned different dreams of social transformation in their search for equality, autonomy, and dignity; yet what is Canadian feminism?Demanding Equality offers illustrations of feminist thought and organizing from mid-nineteenth-century, Enlightenment-inspired writing to the multi-issue movement of the 1980s. Broadening our definition of feminism – and recognizing that its political, cultural, and social dimensions are entangled – Joan Sangster explores the different pathways pursued to gain equality. She challenges the popular "wave" theory, concluding that feminist activism was continuous, despite changing significantly across decades.Demanding Equality presents a picture of a heterogeneous movement characterized by both alliances and fierce internal debates. This comprehensive rear-view look at feminism in all its political guises encourages a wider public conversation about what Canadian feminism has been, is, and should be.

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Utgivningsdatum2022-02-24
Mått152 x 229 x undefined mm
Vikt720 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor484
FörlagUniversity of British Columbia Press
ISBN9780774866071
UtmärkelserWinner of The Canadian Committee on Womens and Gender History English Language Book Prize 2022 (Canada)

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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)