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Discusses Parent's education at McGill University in the late 1930s, including professors who influenced her and student associations to which she belonged.
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"[B]rings together some of the papers presented at the conference, "Madeleine Parent, ses lutes et ses engagements /Madeleine Parent and her struggles," held in March 2001 at McGill University under the auspices of the Quebec Studies Programme and the McGill Centre for Research and Teaching on Women." -- Editor. Translation of: Madeleine Parent, militante (2003). Contents: Portfolio of photographs -- Introduction: setting the stage; Student life at McGill, 1936-1940 / Andrée Lévesque -- Textile strikes in Quebec: 1946, 1947, 1952 / Denyse Baillargeon -- Carrying on the struggle in Ontario, 1952-1973 / John Lang -- The Atlantic connection / John St-Amand -- The women's movement in Canada: setting the agenda / Lynn Kaye & Lynn Mcdonald -- The importance of being Madeline: how an inactivist won the heart of Quebec's immigrant and minority women -- A tribute to a valiant lady / Françoise David -- Madeleine Parent: an unfailing ally of native women / Michèle Rouleau -- An iron will and a string of pearls / Rick Salutin -- A friend, a role model / Monique Simard.
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Annotated reproductions of photographs of Parent as well as pertinent news clippings.
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Portrays Madeleine Parent's life and times.
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Presents a brief account of incidents arising out of the celebration of anniversary dates important to the international Communist movement in Canada between World War I and World War II. Such celebrations played an important part in activating the sense of internationalism and unity in a movement whose membership consisted largely of diverse immigrant groups. Recent immigrants, who risked deportation, were particularly vulnerable to government retaliation against Communist propaganda activities, including participation in parades and celebrations.
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"The article reviews the book, "Gustave Francq: Figure marquante du syndicalisme et précurseur de la FTQ," by Éric Leroux.
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Jeanne Corbin typifies the female militants of the first generation of Canadian Communists. Andrée Lévesque's powerful account of the experiences of Corbin and her female comrades reveals the essential role women played in the movement. Levesque also shows that, despite some efforts to construct egalitarian gender relations, these women subordinated gender issues to the class struggle. Corbin's red itinerary began when she joined the Young Communist League in Edmonton. She later held party posts across the country through her involvement with The Worker in Toronto, a French communist paper in Montreal, the Workers' Cooperative in Timmins, and a lumbermen's strike in Abitibi - where she was jailed for taking part in a protest. She died of tuberculosis in London, Ontario, in 1944. Levesque relies on a wide range of sources to provide a unique exploration of Canadian labour and social history. --Publisher's descriptioin
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During the interwar period, Quebec was a strongly patriarchal society, where men in the Church, politics, and medicine, maintained a traditional norm of social and sexual standards that women were expected to abide by. Some women in the media and religious communities were complicit with this vision, upholding the "ideal" as the norm and tending to those "deviants" who failed to meet society's expectations. By examining the underside of a staid and repressive society, Andrée Lévesque reveals an alternate and more accurate history of women and sexual politics in early twentieth-century Quebec. Women, mainly of the working class, left traces in the historical record of their transgressions from the norm, including the rejection of motherhood (e.g., abortion, abandonment, infanticide), pregnancy and birth outside of marriage, and prostitution. Professor Lévesque concludes, "They were deviant, but only in relation to a norm upheld to stave off a modernism that threatened to swallow up a Quebec based on long-established social and sexual roles. --Publisher's description --T.p. verso; Includes bibliographical references and index
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The article pays homage to labour activist Danielle Cuisinier Dionne (1921-2006).
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A eulogy for the social and human rights activist Madeleine Parent is presented.
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The article reviews the book, "The Woman Worker, 1926-1929," edited by Mararet Hobbs and Joan Sangster.
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Describes the strikes in the textile mills of Montreal, Valleyfield and Lachute that were led by Madeleine Parent and Kent Rowley in the post-World War II period, and the anti-communist purge of US-based unions that resulted in their dismissal from the United Textile Workers of America in 1952.
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Homage to Parent's work in defence of immigrant and minority women in Quebec in the late 1980s and 1990s.
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Chronicles the Ontario years of Madeleine Parent and Kent Rowley, including the founding of the Council of Canadian Unions (later the Confederation of Canadian Unions) in Sudbury in 1969.
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Labour organizer John St. Amand describes his mentorship by Madeleine Parent and his work in Nova Scotia to build Canadian unions.
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Describes Parent's contributions to the Canadian women's movement from 1970 to 2000, including the "equal pay for work of equal value" campaign and the defence of the rights of immigrant and Indigenous women.
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The article reviews the book, "The Economics of Happiness: Building Genuine Wealth," by Mark Anielski.
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