A great revolutionary wave : women and the vote in British Columbia /

British Columbia is often overlooked in the national story of women's struggle for political equality. This book rights that wrong. A Great Revolutionary Wave follows the propaganda campaigns undertaken by suffrage organizations and traces the role of working-class women in the fight for politi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Campbell, Lara, 1970- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Vancouver : UBC Press, [2020]
Series:	Women's suffrage and the struggle for democracy.
Subjects:	Women > Suffrage > British Columbia > History. Suffrage > British Columbia > History. Women > Legal status, laws, etc. > British Columbia > History. Women > British Columbia > Social conditions. Suffragists > British Columbia > History. Voting > British Columbia > History.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: Human and animal rights in the eighteenth century
Making an ass of yourself in narrative
The innovative animals of children's fiction
Woman and Brute in feminism
The orang-outang system: animals and abolition
Learned pigs: animals and the rights of man
The rights of beasts in the early nineteenth century
Conclusion: Rights and stories.