To Be Equals in Our Own Country
Women and the Vote in Quebec
- Publisher
- UBC Press
- Initial publish date
- Mar 2019
- Category
- Women, Women's Studies, Canadian, Women in Politics
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9780774838481
- Publish Date
- Mar 2019
- List Price
- $27.95
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9780774838511
- Publish Date
- Mar 2019
- List Price
- $24.99
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780774838498
- Publish Date
- Feb 2020
- List Price
- $24.95
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Description
“When the history of suffrage is written, the role played by our politicians will cut a sad figure beside that of the women they insulted.” Speaking in 1935, feminist Idola Saint-Jean captured the bitter nature of Quebec women’s fight for enfranchisement, as religious authorities weighed what they stood to gain or lose and politicians showed open disdain during Legislative Assembly debates.
Quebec women had to wait until 1940 or longer to cast a ballot. This passionate yet even-handed account is filled with vivid characters and pivotal events on the road to suffrage in the province. It examines Quebec women’s participation in provincial and municipal politics since winning the vote and compares women’s struggle to that in other countries.
An astute exploration of suffrage, To Be Equals in Our Own Country treats enfranchisement – and the legal, social, and economic rights that stem from it – as a fundamental question of human rights.
About the authors
Denyse Baillargeon is a professor in the History Department at the Universit? de Montr?al. She is the author of Making Do: Women, Family and Home in Montreal during the Great Depression (WLU Press, 1999).
After teaching in England and the West Indies, W. Donald Wilson joined the faculty of the University of Waterloo in 1970, where he remained until his retirement. A former chair of the Department of French Studies at UW, he is the translator, with Paul G. Socken, of Aaron: A Novel, by Yves Th?riault (WLU Press, 2007).
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Kathe Roth was born in Montréal and now lives in Saint-Lazare, Québec. She has been a literary translator and editor for more than twenty-five years. Her work includes over thirty translated books and essays of literary non-fiction on various subjects, including art, architecture, economics, history, and sociology, as well as fiction. She was a finalist for the Governor General Award for literary translation in 1993 for “The Last Cod Fish” by Pol Chantraine. She is a member of the Literary Translators Association of Canada.