One Hundred Years of Struggle: The History of Women and the Vote in Canada (Women’s Suffrage and the Struggle for Democracy) - Hardcover

Sangster, Joan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0774835338 ISBN 13: 9780774835336

Publisher: UBC Press, 2018

Synopsis

The achievement of the vote in 1918 is often celebrated as a triumphant moment in the onward, upward advancement of Canadian women. Acclaimed historian Joan Sangster looks beyond the shiny rhetoric of anniversary celebrations to show that the struggle for equality included gains and losses, inclusions and exclusions, depending on a woman's race, class, and location in the nation. Beginning with Mary Shadd Cary's demands for rights for women and blacks in the 1850s and ending with Indigenous women's achievement of the vote in the 1960s, Sangster travels back in time to tell a new, more inclusive story for a new generation.

About this title

Book Description:

On the eve of celebrating the 100th anniversary of women’s right to vote in Canada comes a timely reassessment of everything Canadians thought they knew about the history of women, the vote, and democracy in our nation.

About the Author:

Joan Sangster is Vanier Professor in the Department of Gender and Women's Studies and director of the Frost Centre for Canadian Studies and Indigenous Studies at Trent University. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.

About this edition

• Publisher: UBC Press
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 0774835338
• ISBN 13: 9780774835336
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 328