| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 328 pages) : illustrations, portraits |
| Series |
Film and media studies series |
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Film + media studies.
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| Contents |
"A more beautiful, more perfect lily" : Agnes Maule Machar, Women's Sphere and Canada's magazine, 1870s-1890s -- Laced in and let down : Toronto journalists write about fashion and health in the daily press, 1890-1900 -- Suffragist and peace advocate : Francis Marion Beynon, the Grain growers' guide and the politics of the First World War -- "We were ONLY WOMEN" : Elizabeth Long, equality feminism and CBC Radio, 1938-1956 -- "My body belongs to me, not the government" : Anne Roberts, Kathryn Keate and the Abortion Caravan Publicity Campaign of 1970 -- Collective visions : lesbian identity and sexualtiy in femisist periodicals, 1979-1994 -- "When a woman speaks" : aboriginal women and their rights in Alanis Obomsawin's documentaries, 1975-2007 -- Conclusion |
| Summary |
Explores the ways in which several of Canada's women journalists, broadcasters, and other media workers reached well beyond the glory of their personal by-lines to advocate for the controversial women's rights of their eras |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-320) and index |
| Notes |
English |
| Subject |
Women's rights -- Canada -- History -- 20th century
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Women's rights -- Canada -- History -- 19th century
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Women journalists -- Canada -- History -- 20th century
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Women journalists -- Canada -- History -- 19th century
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Feminism and mass media -- Canada -- History
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Women in the mass media industry -- Canada -- History
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Media Studies.
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Feminism and mass media
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Women in the mass media industry
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Women journalists
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Women's rights
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Canada
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
cn2011902747 |
| ISBN |
9781554583133 |
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1554583136 |
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9781554582693 |
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1554582695 |
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1282166921 |
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9781282166929 |
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9786613809995 |
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6613809993 |
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9781554583034 |
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1554583039 |
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