Liberation Deferred? : The Ideas of the English-Canadian Suffragists.
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- computer
- online resource
- 9781442676664
- JL192 .B32 1983
Intro -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- ABBREVIATIONS -- Introduction -- 1 The Making of a Suffragist -- 2 Suffrage Organization in Canada: Feminism and Social Reform -- 3 The Political Ideas of the Suffragists -- 4 In Defence of the Church -- 5 Temperate Beginnings -- 6 The Secular Reform Movement -- 7 Race Regeneration, Evolution, and Social Purity -- 8 The Suffrage Fringe: Labour and the Organized Farmer -- 9 The Politics of Success -- Conclusion -- NOTES -- PRIMARY SOURCES -- BIBLIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.
This book argues that suffragists were affected by their membership in a social elite that saw the need to regulate society's future and hoped the family would remain the foundation of that future.
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