A reconstructed world : a feminist biography of Gertrude Richardson /

Born in Leicester, England, and raised in a working-class family, Gertrude Richardson emigrated to northern Manitoba in 1911. She was influential in the women's and peace movements in both England and Canada. Devoutly religious, she challenged orthodoxy and worked outside the mainstream churche...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Roberts, Barbara Ann, 1941-1998 (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Montréal, Que. : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©1996.
Temas:
Richardson, Gertrude, > 1875-1946.
Richardson, Gertrude.
Feminists > Canada > Biography.
Women pacifists > Canada > Biography.
Féministes > Canada > Biographies.
Femmes pacifistes > Canada > Biographies.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Social Scientists & Psychologists.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Feminism & Feminist Theory.
Feminists
Women pacifists
Canada
Electronic books.
Biographies
Biographies.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: In Search of Gertie and the Mother-Hearts
  • 1. Destined for "True Womanhood:" Working Class Girlhood, Middle Class Education, Radical Social and Political Milieu (1875-1901)
  • 2. Defeat and Victory: Collapse, Recovery, Respectability (1901-11)
  • 3. New Destinies: Emigration, Settlement, Farm Wife, and Feminist Leader (1911-14)
  • 4. Sisterhood Divided: Suffrage and the War (1914-17)
  • 5. "My Soul Is Going Out from the 'Women's Movement'": The Conscription Issue in Britain and Canada (1915-17)
  • 6. Comrades of the New Womanhood: Canada's Women's Peace Crusade Versus "The Reign of Force" (1918-19)
  • 7. Despair, Illness, Endurance, Loss, Death
  • No Happy Endings Here (1920-46)
  • Epilogue: "These Things Were Worth Doing."

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