Great Rural Sisterhood

Madge Robertson Watt and the ACWW

AvLinda M. Ambrose

Inbunden, Engelska, 2015

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As the founding president of the Associated Country Women of the World (ACWW), Madge Robertson Watt (1868–1948) turned imperialism on its head. During the First World War, Watt imported the “made-in-Canada” concept of Women’s Institutes – voluntary associations of rural women – to the British countryside. In the interwar years, she capitalized on the success of the Institutes to help create the ACWW, a global organization of rural women. A feminist imperialist and a liberal internationalist, Watt was central to the establishment of two organizations which remain active around the world today.In A Great Rural Sisterhood, Linda M. Ambrose uses a wealth of archival materials from both sides of the Atlantic to tell the story of Watt’s remarkable life, from her early years as a Toronto journalist to her retirement and memorialization after the Second World War.

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Utgivningsdatum:2015-02-05
Mått:160 x 235 x 27 mm
Vikt:650 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:352
Förlag:University of Toronto Press
ISBN:9781442647725

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Linda M. Ambrose is a professor in the Department of History at Laurentian University.

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‘Ambrose has put together a rich and detailed portrait of Margaret "Madge" Robertson Watt that highlights her contributions to early twentieth-century rural and international women’s activism…She offers a fascinating portrait of what it meant to build an international movement of women.’- Lisa Pasolli (BC Studies issue number 195) "Ambrose’s study will command a broad audience; it is not only a valuable scholarly text about significant themes and topics in Canadian history in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, but it is also an accessible read that provides a complex portrait of a key figure in the history of women’s movements who had a vision of "a great rural sisterhood" and worked tirelessly to realize that vision."- Jodey-Nurse Gupta (The Canadian Historical Review Vol 99:2: June 2018)

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction: Framing the Life of Madge Robertson Watt1. Formative Years: Family Influences and University Life2. Scripting the New Woman: Writer and Editor3. Playing Multiple Parts: Family, Society and Sorrow4. Role Reversal: From Colonial Widow to Imperial War Hero5. On the World Stage: Forging International Networks6. Sidelined by War: Waning Influence, Denial, and Death7. Conclusion: Interpreting the Significance of Madge Watt