Femmes, citoyenneté et politique dans les années 1920 et 1930 au Québec

Women, citizenship and policies in Québec in the 1920's and 1930's. This text presents a historical overview of the rich life of feminine associative network in order to explain the context in which Canadian women obtained the right to vote in the 1920's. The author argues that in this feminine movement is practised the enlargement of social action, mainly in Québec, where women were still excluded from the right to vote until 1940. They were therefore developing alternative modes of intervention, which analysts did not readily defined as political but social, but which eventually evolved into social policies adopted by the Welfare State. Through the presentation of the Québec case, the author underlines the close relationships that existed between those women associations in articulating a strategy, often ambivalent, to enlarge women pratice of citizenship.Cohen Yolande. Femmes, citoyenneté et politique dans les années 1920 et 1930 au Québec. In: Cahiers du GEDISST (Groupe d'étude sur la division sociale et sexuelle du travail), N°9-10, 1994. Travail, politique et genre. Perspective internationale. pp. 121-132