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PART 2 – Struggling for Change in a Man’s World

From: Through the Mill

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This chapter explores evolutions in the labour movement and the involvement and experiences of women in this movement throughout the 20th century. It looks at the experiences of working class and/or French Canadian women and their perceptions of/challenges to societal conceptions of femininity and tradition as well as the reality of family dynamics (for daughters, wives) and their evolutions. It also looks at the real lives of working women: their family lives and their recreation and leisure time. Finally, it looks at union formation, striking, the Catholic church’s influence on progress, and the labour movements’ evolution– and womens’ role in it– throughout the century.

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Gail Cuthbert Brandt

Gail Cuthbert Brandt is a specialist in Quebec history and Canadian women’s history. She is co-author of Canadian Women: A History (three editions) and of Feminist Politics on the Farm: Rural Catholic Women in Southern Quebec and Southwestern France. She holds a PhD in History from York University. She taught for 20 years at York University’s bilingual campus, Glendon College, and was named Principal of Renison University College at the University of Waterloo in 1992. A former president of the Canadian Historical Association, Dr. Cuthbert Brandt is also a founding member and former executive officer of the Ontario Women’s History Network and a member of the Canadian Committee on Women’s History.