HIST 2500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Nellie Mcclung, Social Gospel, Social Control
Document Summary
Key points: social gospel, temperance, north west mounted police, prohibition, women"s christian temperance union, 1898 prohibition plebiscite, separate spheres ideology, equal rights feminism/maternal feminism, nellie mcclung. Canadians across the country was involved in social movements- called reform movements. Groups of people who deal with anxieties and concerns about society- wanting to change it through policies, education, charity, etc. The emergence of this is tied to a broader sense of canadians in this period the country changing at a rapid pace- and that the change was eroding the morality of the society. Changes are more transformative than anything we have ever experienced- railways, electricity, the automobile, telephones. Reforming canada: sense of social upheaval- dealing with what they thought was a breakdown of traditional values in society. Concern about broader society, not just the individual: anxieties over gender roles- changing roles within in the family- number of young single women entering formal wage economy working in factories.
