During the interwar years, friends Annie Buller and Beckie Buhay established careers with the Communist Party of Canada and forged a uniquely Communist militant femininity that led to their eventual canonization by the Party as ideal comrades. Using a biographical approach to women’s working-class history, this thesis examines these women’s significant contributions to the CPC’s political project as gendered work. It also demonstrates that although their representation of themselves as comrades was organized around their understanding of themselves as workers, it was shaped too by particularities of ethnicity, gender, and other factors that were all subsumed in the Party’s egalitarian rhetoric. Additionally, in exploring how their lifelong ...
My dissertation addresses representations of the young women of Vancouver's working class, who, in ...
In June of 1916, Sidney Brook left for war, leaving his thirty-year-old pregnant wife Isabelle Brook...
The literature on Communist women is sparse and touches tangentially on the lives of female activist...
ii This thesis examines the role of women in Canadian socialist parties from the 1920's to the ...
Women, citizenship and policies in Québec in the 1920's and 1930's. This text presents a historical...
Vancouver’s early twentieth century mainstream newspapers captured a feminine culture of the young w...
In the thirty years prior to 1910, an active minority of women, not only in British Columbia, but ac...
This dissertation investigates the links between social and political life in Canada at the close of...
During the Great Depression of the 1930s, many artists, writers, and dramatists joined the Communist...
This dissertation examines the ways that Soviet ideas about gender and the body were articulated, pr...
Christina Kelley Gilmartin rewrites the history of gender politics in the 1920s with this compelling...
A champion of impoverished women, children, immigrants, and the unemployed, Edith Hancox’s chosen fa...
This is the second part of an article which explores and contextualises in revolutionary theory and ...
Historians of women have recently debated whether women's daily life bonding networks have facilitat...
Canadian feminists at the turn of the 20th century were interested in producing a collectivity that ...
My dissertation addresses representations of the young women of Vancouver's working class, who, in ...
In June of 1916, Sidney Brook left for war, leaving his thirty-year-old pregnant wife Isabelle Brook...
The literature on Communist women is sparse and touches tangentially on the lives of female activist...
ii This thesis examines the role of women in Canadian socialist parties from the 1920's to the ...
Women, citizenship and policies in Québec in the 1920's and 1930's. This text presents a historical...
Vancouver’s early twentieth century mainstream newspapers captured a feminine culture of the young w...
In the thirty years prior to 1910, an active minority of women, not only in British Columbia, but ac...
This dissertation investigates the links between social and political life in Canada at the close of...
During the Great Depression of the 1930s, many artists, writers, and dramatists joined the Communist...
This dissertation examines the ways that Soviet ideas about gender and the body were articulated, pr...
Christina Kelley Gilmartin rewrites the history of gender politics in the 1920s with this compelling...
A champion of impoverished women, children, immigrants, and the unemployed, Edith Hancox’s chosen fa...
This is the second part of an article which explores and contextualises in revolutionary theory and ...
Historians of women have recently debated whether women's daily life bonding networks have facilitat...
Canadian feminists at the turn of the 20th century were interested in producing a collectivity that ...
My dissertation addresses representations of the young women of Vancouver's working class, who, in ...
In June of 1916, Sidney Brook left for war, leaving his thirty-year-old pregnant wife Isabelle Brook...
The literature on Communist women is sparse and touches tangentially on the lives of female activist...