Cover -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Preface -- 1 Theory and Practice: Early Canadian Socialists Explore the Woman Question -- 2 The CommunistPartyofCanada Confronts the Woman Question -- 3 Red Revolutionaries and Pink Tea Pacifists: Communist and Socialist Women in the Early 1930's -- 4 Militant Mothering: Women in the Early CCF -- 5 More Militant Mothering: Communist Women During the Popular Front -- 6 From Working for War to Prices and Peace: Communist Women during the 1940's -- 7 The CCF Confronts the Woman Question -- 8 Conclusion: Women and the Party Question -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z
Summary
In Dreams of Equality, Joan Sangster chronicles in fascinating detail the first tentative stages of a politically aware women's movement in Canada, from the time of women's suffrage to the 1950's when the CPC went into decline and the CCF began to experience the changes that would evolve into the New Democratic Party a decade later