Dreams of Equality: Women on the Canadian Left, 1920-1950

by Joan Sangster

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 077107946X
• ISBN13: 9780771079467
• Release Date: April 1989
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 273 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.4"