| A Great Rural Sisterhood: Madge Robertson Watt and the Acww Contributor(s): Ambrose, Linda M. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1442647728 ISBN-13: 9781442647725 Publisher: University of Toronto Press OUR PRICE: $86.45 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: February 2015 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Feminism & Feminist Theory - Biography & Autobiography - History | Canada - General |
| Dewey: B |
| Physical Information: 1.3" H x 6.7" W x 9.1" (1.45 lbs) 352 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Canadian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: As the founding president of the Associated Country Women of the World (ACWW), Madge Robertson Watt (1868-1948) turned imperialism on its head. During the First World War, Watt imported the "made-in-Canada" concept of Women's Institutes - voluntary associations of rural women - to the British countryside. In the interwar years, she capitalized on the success of the Institutes to help create the ACWW, a global organization of rural women. A feminist imperialist and a liberal internationalist, Watt was central to the establishment of two organizations which remain active around the world today. In A Great Rural Sisterhood, Linda M. Ambrose uses a wealth of archival materials from both sides of the Atlantic to tell the story of Watt's remarkable life, from her early years as a Toronto journalist to her retirement and memorialization after the Second World War. |
Contributor Bio(s): Ambrose, Linda M.: - Linda M. Ambrose is a professor in the Department of History at Laurentian University. |