Divided by the Ballot Box: The Montreal Council of Women and the 1917 Election.
Prime Minister Robert Borden created the Wartime Elections Act in September 1917 – a move that granted temporary voting rights to women who had close relatives serving in the military. Their votes were positioned as key to winning the war because it was assumed that newly enfranchised wives and moth...
| Publicado en: | Canadian Historical Review Vol. 89; no. 4; pp. 473 - 502 |
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University of Toronto Press
Dec2008
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=hlh&AN=35333978&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: hlh uiTerm: 35333978 longDbName: Humanities International Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 00083755 CHR jtl: Canadian Historical Review issn: 00083755 maglogo: Y pubinfo: dt: Dec2008 vid: 89 iid: 4 pid: 678 pub: University of Toronto Press artinfo: ui: 35333978 10.3138/chr.89.4.473 ppf: 473 ppct: 29 formats: fmt: @attributes: type: P size: 201KB tig: atl: Divided by the Ballot Box: The Montreal Council of Women and the 1917 Election. aug: au: Brookfield, Tarah su: Women's rights Women's suffrage Elections Suffragists War Feminism sug: subj: Women's rights Women's suffrage Elections Suffragists War Feminism keyword: élections elections femmes First World War Montréal Montreal Première Guerre mondiale suffrage suffrage féminin women élections femmes Montréal Première Guerre mondiale suffrage féminin ab: Prime Minister Robert Borden created the Wartime Elections Act in September 1917 – a move that granted temporary voting rights to women who had close relatives serving in the military. Their votes were positioned as key to winning the war because it was assumed that newly enfranchised wives and mothers would support Borden's controversial conscription plans to reinforce their husbands and sons at the front. Suffragists across the country were divided by the act's limited enfranchisement and its connection to conscription. This turmoil reached its pinnacle in Montreal, a city that was at the centre of nationalistic and ethnic strife caused by the war, and triggered rifts within the city's largest Anglophone women's organization, the Montreal Council of Women. One result of this tension was the impeachment trial of the council's long-time president, Dr Grace Ritchie-England, for her criticism of the Wartime Elections Act and conscription during the 1917 federal election. Calling attention to the resistance of and conflicts between middle-class club women who were normally viewed as hegemonically supportive of the war effort widens our understanding of women's disparate opinions and activism during the First World War and the fragile nature of suffragists’ political unity. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: Y custom: Copyright of Canadian Historical Review is the property of University of Toronto Press and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites without the copyright holder's express written permission. Additionally, content may not be used with any artificial intelligence tools or machine learning technologies. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. item: Canadian Historical Review holder: University of Toronto Press dt: @attributes: year: 2008 holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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