A reconstructed world : a feminist biography of Gertrude Richardson /

Main Author: Roberts, Barbara Ann.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Montréal, Que. : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©1996.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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."