Gender Conflicts

New Essays in Women's History
Herausgeber: Iacovetta, Franca; Valverde, Mariana

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In 1912, concerns about race as well as class prompted the feminist of the Women's Political League, a Toronto suffrage organization, to refuse an invitation to support striking Jewish immigrant women at Eaton's garment factory in the city.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• 2nd Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 303
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Juni 1992
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 153mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9780802067739
• ISBN-10: 0802067735
• Artikelnr.: 21268729

Autorenporträt

Edited by Franca Iacovetta and Mariana Valverde

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Contributors / Introduction
1 ‘When the Mother of the Race Is Free’: Race, Reproduction, and Sexuality
in First-Wave Feminism
Mariana Valverde
2 ‘Maidenly Girls’ or ‘Designing Women’? The Crime of Seduction in
Turn-of-the-Century Ontario
Karen Dubinsky
3 The ‘Hallelujah Lasses’: Working-Class Women in the Salvation Army in
English Canada, 1882-92
Lynne Marks
4 The Alchemy of Politicization: Socialist Women and the Early Canadian
Left
Janice Newton
5 Wounded Womanhood and Dead Men: Chivalry and the Trials of Clara Ford and
Carrie Davies
Carolyn Strange
6 Class, Ethnicity, and Gender in the Eaton Strikes of 1912 and 1934
Ruth A. Frager
7 ‘Feminine Trifles of Vast Importance’: Writing Gender into the History of
Consumption
Cynthia Wright
8 Making ‘New Canadians’: Social Workers, Women, and the Reshaping of
Immigrant Families
Franca Iacovetta