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A Great Rural Sisterhood : Madge Robertson Watt and the ACWW / Linda M. Ambrose.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2015]Copyright date: ©2015Description: 1 online resource (360 p.) : 24 b&w illustrations, 2 b&w tablesContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781442669017
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305.4209173/4 23
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  • HQ1455.W38 A43 2015eb
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
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
Summary: 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.
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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

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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.

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