A Great Rural Sisterhood : Madge Robertson Watt and the ACWW /
Ambrose, Linda M.
A Great Rural Sisterhood : Madge Robertson Watt and the ACWW / Linda M. Ambrose. - 1 online resource (360 p.) : 24 b&w illustrations, 2 b&w tables
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. Framing the Life of Madge Robertson Watt -- Chapter One. Formative Years: Family Influences and University Life -- Chapter Two. Scripting the New Woman: Writer and Editor -- Chapter Three. Playing Multiple Parts: Family, Society, and Sorrow -- Chapter Four. Role Reversal: From Colonial Widow to Imperial War Hero -- Chapter Five. On the World Stage: Forging International Networks -- Chapter Six. Sidelined by War: Waning Influence, Denial, and Death -- Conclusion. Interpreting the Significance of Madge Watt -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
As the founding president of the Associated Country Women of the World (ACWW), Madge Robertson Watt (1868–1948) turned imperialism on its head. During the First World War, Watt imported the “made-in-Canada” concept of Women’s Institutes – voluntary associations of rural women – to the British countryside. In the interwar years, she capitalized on the success of the Institutes to help create the ACWW, a global organization of rural women. A feminist imperialist and a liberal internationalist, Watt was central to the establishment of two organizations which remain active around the world today.In A Great Rural Sisterhood, Linda M. Ambrose uses a wealth of archival materials from both sides of the Atlantic to tell the story of Watt’s remarkable life, from her early years as a Toronto journalist to her retirement and memorialization after the Second World War.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9781442669017
10.3138/9781442669017 doi
Feminists--Canada--Biography.
Rural women--Social conditions.
Rural women--Societies and clubs.
Women social reformers--Canada--Biography.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General.
HQ1455.W38 / A43 2015eb
305.4209173/4
A Great Rural Sisterhood : Madge Robertson Watt and the ACWW / Linda M. Ambrose. - 1 online resource (360 p.) : 24 b&w illustrations, 2 b&w tables
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. Framing the Life of Madge Robertson Watt -- Chapter One. Formative Years: Family Influences and University Life -- Chapter Two. Scripting the New Woman: Writer and Editor -- Chapter Three. Playing Multiple Parts: Family, Society, and Sorrow -- Chapter Four. Role Reversal: From Colonial Widow to Imperial War Hero -- Chapter Five. On the World Stage: Forging International Networks -- Chapter Six. Sidelined by War: Waning Influence, Denial, and Death -- Conclusion. Interpreting the Significance of Madge Watt -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
As the founding president of the Associated Country Women of the World (ACWW), Madge Robertson Watt (1868–1948) turned imperialism on its head. During the First World War, Watt imported the “made-in-Canada” concept of Women’s Institutes – voluntary associations of rural women – to the British countryside. In the interwar years, she capitalized on the success of the Institutes to help create the ACWW, a global organization of rural women. A feminist imperialist and a liberal internationalist, Watt was central to the establishment of two organizations which remain active around the world today.In A Great Rural Sisterhood, Linda M. Ambrose uses a wealth of archival materials from both sides of the Atlantic to tell the story of Watt’s remarkable life, from her early years as a Toronto journalist to her retirement and memorialization after the Second World War.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9781442669017
10.3138/9781442669017 doi
Feminists--Canada--Biography.
Rural women--Social conditions.
Rural women--Societies and clubs.
Women social reformers--Canada--Biography.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General.
HQ1455.W38 / A43 2015eb
305.4209173/4