HIST 242 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Nellie Mcclung, Henrietta Edwards, Irene Parlby
11 Nov 2016
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The struggle for political equality: women at the ballot box and in office. Views on the first feminists were never precisely the same in french and english canada. Both saw the emergence of feminist scholarship closely associated with the modern women"s movement and were self-conscious about contemporary scholarly concerns. Path-breaking studies of quebec"s most prominent feminist group, the f d ration nationale. Saint-john-baptiste, and its founders, such as marie g rin-lajoie, typically emphasized the significance of class and race or culture in the struggle for democracy and equality. As the larger-than-life statues of the famous five on parliament hill, installed in 2000 amidst considerable debate, demonstrate, the suffragists continue to occupy an unrivaled position in the english-canadian feminist and national imaginary. Nellie mcclung, irene parlby, emily murphy, henrietta muir edwards, and louise mckinney, and others like them, remain key and controversial in a liberation movement that continues into the present.
