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Format: 1 online resource (274 pages) : , illustrations.

ISBN: 9781442623491 (e-book)

Series Statement: Canadian Social History Series

Additional Edition: Print version: Sangster, Joan, 1952- Dreams of equality : women on the Canadian left, 1920-1950. Toronto, [Ontario] ; Buffalo, [New York] ; London, [England] : University of Toronto Press, c1989 ISBN 9781442659636

Language: English

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Format: 1 online resource

ISBN: 9781442623491

Series Statement: Canadian Social History Series

Content: 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 - both within their own parties and in the larger society. In both the Communist Party of Canada and the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation, a male-dominated leadership seldom embraced women's causes wholeheartedly or as a doctrinal priority. So-called women's issues, whether birth control, consumer issues, or equal pay, usually took second place to an emphasis on the general needs of workers or farmers. Nonetheless, many women continued to promote their feminist causes through the socialist movement, in the hope that, eventually, the socialist New Jerusalem would see their dreams of equality fulfilled.In Dreams of Equality, Joan Sangster chronicles in fascinating detail the first tentative stages of a politically aware women's movement in Canada, from the time of women's suffrage to the 1950's when the CPC went into decline and the CCF began to experience the changes that would evolve into the New Democratic Party a decade later.

Note: Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , Preface -- , 1. Theory and Practice: Early Canadian Socialists Explore the Woman Question -- , 2. The Communist Party Confronts the Woman Question -- , 3. Red Revolutionaries and Pink Tea Pacifists: Communist and Socialist Women in the Early 1930’s -- , 4. Militant Mothering: Women in the Early CCF -- , 5. More Militant Mothering: Communist Women During the Popular Front -- , 6. From Working for War to Prices and Peace: Communist Women During the 1940’s -- , 7. The CCF Confronts the Woman Question -- , 8. Conclusion: Women and the Party Question -- , Notes -- , Bibliography -- , Index -- , Backmatter

Language: English

DOI: 10.3138/9781442623491

URL: https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442623491