Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Dedication vii
4. Acknowledgements x
5. Introduction 1
6. At Home and Abroad: Canadian Suffrage at the Crossroads of International Suffrage Movements 12
7. Violet McNaughton’s Influence on the Western Producer 41
8. “In the Forefront of the Affair”: Women in the Crowsnest Pass Strike of 1932 67
9. Mindel Cherniack Sheps and the Politics of Socialized Medicine in 1940s Saskatchewan 100
10. “Ann Nisei” and “Sue Sada”: Negotiating Race, Gender, and Family in the Nikkei Press of North America 128
11. Labour Progressive? Political Opportunist? Betrayer?: Contradictions in the Life of Postwar Alberta Unionist Ethel Wilson 148
12. Peace Activists and Public Health in Alberta: The Voice of Women against Chemical Weapons 175
13. Activists in the “Bible Belt”: Conservatism, Religion, and Recognizing Reproductive Rights in 1970s Southern Alberta 197
14. From Kitchen Tables to Formal Organization: Indigenous Women’s Social and Political Activism in Saskatchewan to 1980 218
15. Reproductive Self-Determination and the Persistence of “Family Values” in Alberta from the 1960s to the 1990s 253
16. Selected Bibliography 291
17. Contributors 315
18. Index 321