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About Canada. Women's rights / Penni Mitchell.

by Mitchell, Penni, 1959-

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Fernwood Publishing, 2015.

305.420971 M682a

Women's rights -- Canada -- History.

Women -- Suffrage -- Canada -- History.

Women -- Canada -- History.

Feminism -- Canada -- History.

About Canada series ; 12.

9781552667378 (pbk.)

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227 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Includes index.

"Key historical events, and the women who were central to them, in the struggle for women's equality in Canada. Four and a half decades after the report of the Royal Commission on the Status of Women, the feminist struggle is as necessary as ever but thanks to the hard work of activist women, many forms of discrimination are a thing of the past. Penni Mitchell explores gender roles within First Nations societies, where women often brokered peace agreements, oversaw property and advised leaders. She also examines the struggles of First Nations women to challenge Indian Act discrimination against women and children. Exploring the early days of colonial settlement, Mitchell notes that women were among Canada's first administrators, and they started its first schools and hospitals. Later, women were among the first to oppose slavery, internment and racial segregation. Demanding a greater say in their country, women fought for the right to vote, attend university and divorce. They fought for child protection laws, public health clinics, minimum wages, equal pay and better working conditions. The ways in which women's lives have been transformed by the legalization of birth control and abortion and the removal of patriarchal privilege from family law."--Provided by publisher.

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