Title Organizing rural women : the Federated Women's Institutes of Ontario, 1897-1919 / Margaret C. Kechnie

Published Montreal, Que. : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©2003

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Description 1 online resource (x, 194 pages) Contents Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Shun Not the Struggle ... It Is God's Plan!: The Historical Context of the Emergence of the Women's Institutes -- 2 The Thing Most Needed Was Created: The Growth of the Women's Institutes before Federation -- 3 There Is No Class Distinction in Our Ranks: Reflecting on the Leadership of the Women's Institutes -- 4 Lucky If She Be Allowed to Keep the Egg Money: The Relationship of Farm Women to the Women's Institutes -- 5 We Have Tactfully Kept from Being Meddlesome: Education as an Unresponsive Reform Tool 6 We Have Gone a Long Way from the Principles of Cooking: Embracing Community Outreach For Home and Country7 The Little Acorn Has Become a Great Oak: The Founding of the Federated Women's Institutes of Ontario -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y Summary "In Organizing Rural Women Margaret Kechnie looks at the history of the Federated Women's Institutes of Ontario, popularly known as the Women's Institutes (WI), from the time the first branch was formed at Stoney Creek in 1897 until federation in 1919. Kechnie challenges the popular mythology that the WI began when Adelaide Hoodless called on farm women to organize and received an overwhelming response. She reveals the Hoodless had little to do with founding the WI, that early response to the organization was both disappointing and discouraging, and that for the first thirty-four years of its existence the WI was led by men, who defined the constitution of the organization and set many of its policies."--Jacket Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes English Print version record Subject Federated Women's Institutes of Ontario -- History SUBJECT Federated Women's Institutes of Ontario fast Subject Rural women -- Ontario -- Societies, etc. -- History Women's institutes -- Ontario -- History SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Women's Studies. Rural women -- Societies, etc. Women's institutes Ontario Genre/Form Electronic books History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780773570726 0773570721 1282860860 9781282860865 9786612860867 6612860863

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