Title Dreams of equality : women on the Canadian left, 1920-1950 / Joan Sangster

Published Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2014

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Description 1 online resource (273 pages) : illustrations Series Canadian social history series Canadian social history series. Contents Preface -- Theory and practice: early Canadian socialists explore the woman question -- The communist party of Canada confronts the woman question -- Red revolutionaries and pink tea pacifists: communist and socialist women in the early 1930's -- Militant mothering: women in the early CCF -- More militant mothering: communist women during the popular front -- From working for war to prices and peace: communist women during the 1940's -- The CCF confronts the woman question -- Conclusion: women and the party question Summary Canadian women on the political left in the first half of the twentieth century fought with varying degrees of commitment for women's rights. Women's dreams of equality were in part a vision of economic and class equality, though they also represented profound desires for equality with men - both within their own parties and in the larger society. In both the Communist Party of Canada and the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation, a male-dominated leadership seldom embraced women's causes wholeheartedly or as a doctrinal priority. So-called women's issues, whether birth control, consumer issues, or equal pay, usually took second place to an emphasis on the general needs of workers or farmers. Nonetheless, many women continued to promote their feminist causes through the socialist movement, in the hope that, eventually, the socialist New Jerusalem would see their dreams of equality fulfilled. In Dreams of Equality, Joan Sangster chronicles in fascinating detail the first tentative stages of a politically aware women's movement in Canada, from the time of women's suffrage to the 1950's when the CPC went into decline and the CCF began to experience the changes that would evolve into the New Democratic Party a decade later Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed April 7, 2016) Subject Women and socialism -- Canada -- History Women -- Political activity -- Canada -- History Feminism -- Canada -- History Women's rights -- Canada -- History SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies. Feminism Women and socialism Women -- Political activity Women's rights Canada Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781442623491 1442623497

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