Contents
Contributors / Introduction
1 ‘When the Mother of the Race Is Free’: Race, Reproduction, and Sexuality in First-Wave Feminism
Mariana Valverde
2 ‘Maidenly Girls’ or ‘Designing Women’? The Crime of Seduction in Turn-of-the-Century Ontario
Karen Dubinsky
3 The ‘Hallelujah Lasses’: Working-Class Women in the Salvation Army in English Canada, 1882-92
Lynne Marks
4 The Alchemy of Politicization: Socialist Women and the Early Canadian Left
Janice Newton
5 Wounded Womanhood and Dead Men: Chivalry and the Trials of Clara Ford and Carrie Davies
Carolyn Strange
6 Class, Ethnicity, and Gender in the Eaton Strikes of 1912 and 1934
Ruth A. Frager
7 ‘Feminine Trifles of Vast Importance’: Writing Gender into the History of Consumption
Cynthia Wright
8 Making ‘New Canadians’: Social Workers, Women, and the Reshaping of Immigrant Families
Franca Iacovetta