Linda M Ambrose

A Great Rural Sisterhood

Madge Robertson Watt and the Acww

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Produktbeschreibung

As the founding president of the Associated Country Women of the World (ACWW), Madge Robertson Watt (1868–1948) turned imperialism on its head. During the First World War, Watt imported the "made-in-Canada" concept of Women’s Institutes – voluntary associations of rural women – to the British countryside. In the interwar years, she capitalized on the success of the Institutes to help create the ACWW, a global organization of rural women. A feminist imperialist and a liberal internationalist, Watt was central to the establishment of two organizations which remain active around the world today. In A Great Rural Sisterhood, Linda M. Ambrose uses a wealth of archival materials from both sides of the Atlantic to tell the story of Watt’s remarkable life, from her early years as a Toronto journalist to her retirement and memorialization after the Second World War.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Februar 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 170mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 658g
• ISBN-13: 9781442647725
• ISBN-10: 1442647728
• Artikelnr.: 42069887

Autorenporträt

Linda M. Ambrose is a professor in the Department of History at Laurentian University.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Framing the Life of Madge Robertson Watt
1. Formative Years: Family Influences and University Life
2. Scripting the New Woman: Writer and Editor
3. Playing Multiple Parts: Family, Society and Sorrow
4. Role Reversal: From Colonial Widow to Imperial War Hero
5. On the World Stage: Forging International Networks
6. Sidelined by War: Waning Influence, Denial, and Death
7. Conclusion: Interpreting the Significance of Madge Watt