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.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of Toronto Press
ISBN-10
1442647728
ISBN-13
9781442647725
eBay Product ID (ePID)
209358692
Product Key Features
Author
Linda M. Ambrose
Format
Hardback
Language
English
Subject
Biography: Historical, Political & Military
Type
Textbook
Additional Product Features
Place of Publication
Toronto
Content Note
24
Author Biography
Linda M. Ambrose ISA Professor in the Department of History at Laurentian University.
Date of Publication
05/02/2015
Country of Publication
Canada
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