Compelled to act : histories of women's activism in western Canada / edited by Sarah Carter and Nanci Langford.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Carter, Sarah, 1954- editor.

Langford, Nanci L., 1954- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political participation.

Women--Political activity--Canada, Western--History.

Women.

Women political activists--Canada, Western--History.

Women political activists.

Political participation--Canada, Western--History.

Canada, Western--Social conditions.

Canada, Western.

Western Canada.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (343 pages)

Place of Publication:

Winnipeg, Manitoba : University of Manitoba Press, [2020]

Summary:

"Compelled to Act showcases fresh historical perspectives on the diversity of women's contributions to social and political change in prairie Canada in the twentieth century, including but looking beyond the era of suffrage activism. In our current time of revitalized activism against racism, colonialism, violence, and misogyny, this volume reminds us of the myriad ways women have challenged and confronted injustices and inequalities. The women and their activities shared in Compelled to Act are diverse in time, place, and purpose, but there are some common threads. In their attempts to correct wrongs, achieve just solutions, and create change, women experienced multiple sites of resistance, both formal and informal. The acts of speaking out, of organizing, of picketing and protesting were characterized as unnatural for women, as violations of gender and societal norms, and as dangerous to the state and to family stability. Still as these accounts demonstrate, prairie women felt compelled to respond to women's needs, to challenges to family security, both health and economic, and to the need for community. They reacted with the resources at hand, and beyond, to support effective action, joining the ranks of women all over the world seeking political and social agency to create a society more responsive to the needs of women and their children."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

At Home and Abroad: Canadian Suffrage at the Crossroads of International Suffrage Movements / Joan Sangster

Violet McNaughton's Influence on the Western Producer / Georgina M. Taylor

"In the Forefront of the Affair": Women and the Crowsnest Pass Strike of 1912 / Laurel Halladay

Mindel Cherniak Sheps and the Politics of Socialized Medicine in 1940s Saskatchewan / Esyllt Wynne Jones

"Ann Nisei" and "Sue Sada": Negotiating Race, Gender, and Family in the Nikkei Press of North America / Stephanie Bangarth

Labour Progressive? Political Opportunist? Betrayer?: Contradictions in the Life of Postware Alberta Unionist Ethel Wilson / Cynthia Loch-Drake

Peace Activists and Public Health in Alberta: The Voice of Women against Chemical Weapons / Susan L. Smith

Activists in the "Bible Belt": Conservatism, Religion, and Recognizing Reproductive Rights in 1970s Southern Alberta / Erika Dyck and Karissa Patton

From Kitchen Tables to Formal Organization: Indigenous Women's Social and Political Activism in Saskatchewan to 1980 / Allyson Stevenson and Cheryl Troupe

Reproductive Self-Determination and the Persistence of "Family Values" in Alberta from the 1960s to the 1990s / Carol Williams.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780887558726

0887558720

9780887558733

0887558739