Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. PART ONE: Reassessing Women in Canadian Politics
5. Introduction 3
6. Feminist Approaches to Women in Politics 16
7. PART TWO: Canadian Women and the Old Parties
8. ‘A Noble Effort’: The National Federation of Liberal Women of Canada, 1928–1973 39
9. ‘A Respectable Feminist’: The Political Career of Senator Cairine Wilson, 1921-1962 63
10. PART THREE: The Go-operative Commonwealth Federation
11. Amelia Turner and Calgary Labour Women, 1919–1935 89
12. The Role of Women in the Early CCF, 1933–1940 118
13. Thérèse Casgrain and the CCF in Quebec 139
14. PART FOUR: Labour, Socialist, and Communist Women
15. Women in the Canadian Socialist Movement, 1904–1914 171
16. Finnish Socialist Women in Canada, 1890–1930 196
17. From Wage Slave to White Slave: The Prostitution Controversy and the Early Canadian Left 217
18. PART FIVE: Politics and Community
19. The Ideas of the Ukrainian Women’s Organization of Canada, 1930–1945 239
20. Politicized Housewives in the Jewish Communist Movement of Toronto, 1923–1933 258
21. Women’s Peace Activism in Canada 276
22. The Politicization of Ontario Farm Women 309
23. Abbreviations 333
24. Contributors 335
25. Index 337