Documenting First Wave Feminisms: Volume II Canada - National and Transnational Contexts

Nancy M. Forestell

ISBN 10: 0802091350 / ISBN 13: 9780802091352

Published by University of Toronto Press, 2014

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Documenting First Wave Feminisms: Volume II Canada - National and Transnational Contexts
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Publication Date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0802091350
• ISBN 13: 9780802091352
• Binding: Hardback
• Condition: New
• Weight: 666 grams

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Synopsis

This book is the second of a two-volume anthology of primary source documents on feminism in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Unique in its extensive treatment of the first-wave feminist movement in Canada, it highlights distinct elements of its origins and evolution.

The book is organized into thematic rubrics that address key issues, debates, and struggles within the first wave in Canada, as well as international influences and Canadian engagement in transnational networks and initiatives. Documents by Indigenous, Anglophone, Francophone, and immigrant female activists demonstrate the richness and complexity of Canadian feminism during this period. Together with its first volume, Documenting First Wave Feminisms reveals a more nuanced picture, attentive to nationalism and transnationalism, of the first wave than has previously been understood.

About the Author

Nancy M. Forestell is an associate professor in the Department of History at St Francis Xavier University. Maureen Moynagh is a professor in the Department of English at St Francis Xavier University.