The periodical press and western woman's suffrage movements in Canada and the United States: A comparative study

Kulba, Tracy; Lamont, Victoria

doi:10.1016/j.wsif.2006.04.005

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“…e promotion of an egalitarian and econom ically vibrant western region resonated politically in British Columbia. Rapid economic development and white settler population growth seemed evidence of what Patricia Roy calls the "boundless optimism" em bodied by Premier McBride (Dawson 2005;Kulba and Lamont 2006;Roy 2012).…”

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“…As in the American West, suffragists in British Columbia argued that that "frontier" spirit created a special kind of woman, whose work ethic set her apart from women of other regions and proved she deserved enfranchisement (Carter 2016;Carter 2006;Kulba and Lamont 2006). Vancouver suffragist Blanche Mur ison linked the "ambitious" modern Vancouver wo man with the "tireless efforts of these indomitable women workers of the west, with their broadgauged judgement."…”

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Modernity and Progress: The Transnational Politics of Suffrage in British Columbia (1910-1916)

Campbell

2020

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Canadian historians have underplayed the extent to which theproject of suffrage and first wave feminism was transnational in scope. The suffrage movement in British Columbia provides a good example of the global interconnections of the movement. While BC suffragists were relatively uninterested in pan-Canadian campaigns they explicitly situated provincial suffrage within three transnational relationships: the ‘frontier’ myth of the Western United States, radical direct action by suffragettes in the United Kingdom, and the rise of modern China. By the second decade of the 20thcentury, increasingly confident women’s suffrage societies hosted international visits and contributed to global print culture, both of which consolidated a sense of being part of a modern, international and unstoppable movement. BC suffragists were attuned to American suffrage campaigns in California, Oregon and Washington, which granted female suffrage after referenda and situated political rights for settler women in the context of Western progress narratives. The emphasis on progress and modernity intersected with growing connections to non-Western countries, complicating racialized arguments for settler women’s rights to vote. BC suffragists were particularly impressed by the role of feminism in Chinese political reform and came to understand Chinese women as symbolizing modernity, progress, and equality. Finally, the militant direct action in the British suffrage movement played a critical role in how BC suffragists imagined the role of tactical political violence. They were in close contact with the militant WSPU, hosted debates on the meaning of direct action, and argued that suffragettes were heroes fighting for a just cause. They pragmatically used media fascination with suffragette violence for political purposes by reserving the possibility that unmet demands for political equality might lead to Canadian conflict in the future.

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Modernity and Progress: The Transnational Politics of Suffrage in British Columbia (1910-1916)

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2020

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“…In 1929, after more than a decade of petitioning by individual women and women's groups, the Privy Council in Britain (responsible for the British North American Act) declared Canadian women to be persons under the law. This meant that women could own and make decisions about property, run for parliament, and occupy a seat in the Senate (Kulba & Lamont, 2006). Mary J.…”

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“…Whereas the suffrage movement was not as long, as radical, or as actively contested in Canada as it was in Britain or the United States, suffrage and other “women questions” were hotly debated at the turn of the 20th century and women’s suffrage by no means “fit seamlessly into [the] cultural imaginary” (Kulba & Lamont, 2006, p. 266). Canadian women were granted the vote only gradually, at first on a provincial level, and then in 1918, with the Federal Women’s Franchise Act, women who were British subjects over the age of 21 gained the right to vote in federal elections (Cleverdon, 1950).…”

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Reconstructing the experiences of first generation women in Canadian psychology.

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Canadian Psychology / Psychologie canadienne

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To date, the historiography on women in Canadian psychology has been relatively sparse. This is especially true in relation to the much more extensive literature that documents the history of first and second generation women in American psychology. The aim of this paper is to systematically identify and analyse the personal characteristics, educational experiences, and career trajectories of first generation women psychologists in Canada. We identify this cohort as women who received their PhDs during the period 1922 to 1960. We contextualize their experiences vis-à-vis unique trends in Canadian society, paying particular attention to the common struggles faced by these women within or in reaction to the broader social, cultural, political, and institutional structures they encountered. By locating and distinguishing Canadian women in psychology, we offer an important contribution to the development of a more comprehensive history of Canadian psychology and highlight its gendered dynamics.But if I am concerned about the lack of awareness of Canadian contributions to psychological knowledge, and a general lack of awareness of the history of our discipline, I am even more concerned about the relative invisibility of our herstory. (Stark, 2000, p. 3) Written just over a decade ago, this call for increased awareness of the history of Canadian psychology and the role women have played in it is now being heeded. In this paper, we address concerns about the invisibility of our herstory by presenting the results of our systematic search for women in early Canadian psychology. In doing so, we provide a counterweight to the extensive historiography on women in American psychology that began in the 1970s and has since expanded to encompass many important historical studies (e.g.

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Transcendent Citizenship: Suffrage, the National Council of Women of Canada, and the Politics of Organized Womanhood

Kinahan¹

2008

Journal of Canadian Studies

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This essay analyzes the discourses on woman suffrage articulated at the annual meetings of the National Council of Women of Canada from 1894 to 1918. The essay argues that the women active in the National Council articulated a vision of transcendent citizenship for Canadian women. This “transcendent” citizenship was exercised through personal influence and moral suasion, through the election of men with strong moral character, and through raising public-spirited sons. This understanding of women’s citizenship valorized women’s personal, moral influence over and above their political equality. Literally and figuratively concerned with enfranchising White women, the woman suffrage debate in the National Council was influenced by a nation-building project that sought to establish Canada as a White settler nation. While the woman suffrage movement was important for extending the political rights of White women, it was also authorized through race-based arguments that linked White women’s enfranchisement to the need to protect the nation from “racial degeneration.”

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The periodical press and western woman's suffrage movements in Canada and the United States: A comparative study

Cited by 3 publications

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Modernity and Progress: The Transnational Politics of Suffrage in British Columbia (1910-1916)

Modernity and Progress: The Transnational Politics of Suffrage in British Columbia (1910-1916)

Reconstructing the experiences of first generation women in Canadian psychology.

Transcendent Citizenship: Suffrage, the National Council of Women of Canada, and the Politics of Organized Womanhood

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