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This article reviews the book, "Out to Work: A History of Wage-Earning Women in the United States", by Alice Kessler-Harris.
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This article reviews the book, "Women, History, and Theory," by Joan Kelly.
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This paper examines women in the Canadian socialist movement to illuminate their role within the institutional life of the movement and to analyze the ideological dimensions of the "woman question" before 1914. Socialist adherence to the primacy of woman's role in the home and to the family wage ideal, as well as their ambivalence toward working women, and an undeveloped vision of woman's role under socialism — all served to reinforce a secondary role for women in socialist organizations. Suspicion of bourgeois women's organizations and of autonomous women's groups generally, hampered socialist women from assuming leadership roles with some notable exceptions. While socialist analysis pointed to the exploitation of women as both workers and wives and mothers, women's issues and organizations remained peripheral and subordinale to the main task of overthrowing capitalism.
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This article reviews the book, "Work for Mother: The Ironies of Household Technology from the Open Hearth to the Microwave," by Ruth Schwartz Cowan.
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This collection of essays focuses on the experiences of women as poliutical activists in twentieth-century Canada, both in the mainstream of party politics and in groups outside the mainstream. The latter include women in the socialist and labour movements, the farm and peace movements, and women active in variouss ethnic communities. Expanding the notion of politics, the authors highlight the widespread naturee of women's activism - particularly at the local level - and challenge the easy formulation that women were primarily interest in the vote and lost interest in politics when they acquired it. Some of the essays suggest that even the suffrage campaign has been misrepresented as solely a middle-class movement. Women evolved their own styles of political pparticipation shaped by local contexts, class, culture, family, and life cycle. Women often organized at the community level, and worked both in combination with men and in women-only settings. Contributors to the volume explore women's involvement in organizations from the political left to right, and women's efforts to shape Canada's political priorities and activities. Politically minded women often found that their best outless for commitment and service was through women's organizations, which addressed their needs and provided a base for effective action. --Publisher's description
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The article provides reviews of: Women's History Sources: A Guide to Archives and Manuscript Collections in the United States, 2 v., edited by Andrea Hinding / review by Linda Kealey -- Marxism and Culture: The CPUSA and Aesthetics in the 1930s, by Lawrence H. Schwartz / review by Peter Fitting -- A Bibliography of Canadian Folklore in English, compiled by Edith Fowke and Carole Henderson Carpenter / review by Laurel Doucette.
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