In 1912, concerns about race as well as class prompted the feminist of the Women's Political League, a Toronto suffrage organization, to refuse an invitation to support striking Jewish immigrant women at Eaton's garment factory in the city.

Contents

Contributors / Introduction

1 ‘When the Mother of the Race Is Free’: Race, Reproduction, and Sexuality in First-Wave Feminism

Mariana Valverde

2 ‘Maidenly Girls’ or ‘Designing Women’? The Crime of Seduction in Turn-of-the-Century Ontario

Karen Dubinsky

3 The ‘Hallelujah Lasses’: Working-Class Women in the Salvation Army in English Canada, 1882-92

Lynne Marks

4 The Alchemy of Politicization: Socialist Women and the Early Canadian Left

Janice Newton

5 Wounded Womanhood and Dead Men: Chivalry and the Trials of Clara Ford and Carrie Davies

Carolyn Strange

6 Class, Ethnicity, and Gender in the Eaton Strikes of 1912 and 1934

Ruth A. Frager

7 ‘Feminine Trifles of Vast Importance’: Writing Gender into the History of Consumption

Cynthia Wright

8 Making ‘New Canadians’: Social Workers, Women, and the Reshaping of Immigrant Families

Franca Iacovetta

Edited by Franca Iacovetta and Mariana Valverde