Documenting First Wave Feminisms

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.

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.

“Documenting First Wave Feminisms is a timely collection of primary documents on first wave feminism in Canada, with a well-written and insightful introduction. It is an important addition to the scholarly literature on Canadian first wave feminism which, as the editors point out, has received minimal attention from Canadian historians in the past decade.”

Adele Perry, Canada Research Chair in Western Canadian Social History, University of Manitoba:

“First wave feminism has long awaited this kind of serious reconsideration. Adopting an appropriately capacious and self-conscious definition of what constitutes first wave feminism, Forestell and Moynagh gather together a wide-ranging and often fascinating collection of documents that shed new light on this politically ambitious and complicated movement, its national context, and its transnational connections.”