To Be Equals in Our Own Country - Women and the Vote in Quebec

To Be Equals in Our Own Country chronicles the bitter struggle for women's suffrage in Quebec, the last province to grant Canadian women this fundamental human right.

Sommario

Introduction
1 Pioneers of Suffrage
2 Giving Women a Voice
3 Broadening the Struggle
4 Winning the Provincial Franchise
5 Reaching for Representation
Conclusion
Sources and Further Reading
Index

Info autore

Denyse Baillargeon is a professor of history at the Université de Montréal. She is the author of several historical studies in French, translated as A Brief History of Women in Quebec (2014), Canadian Historical Association Clio-Québec prize winner Babies for the Nation: The Medicalization of Motherhood in Quebec, 1910-1970 (2009), and Making Do: Women, Family and Home in Montreal during the Great Depression (1999). Käthe Roth has been a literary translator, working mainly in historical non-fiction, for more than twenty-five years.

Riassunto

To Be Equals in Our Own Country chronicles the bitter struggle for women's suffrage in Quebec, the last province to grant Canadian women this fundamental human right.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Denyse Baillargeon
• Con la collaborazione di: Kathe Roth (Traduzione)
• Editore: University Of British Columbia
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 15.06.2020
• EAN: 9780774838498
• ISBN: 978-0-7748-3849-8
• Pagine: 232
• Serie: Women's Suffrage and the Struggle for Democracy
• Categoria: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Sociologia > Teorie sociologiche