The mischiefmakers: woman’s movement development in Victoria, British Columbia 1850-1910

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dc.contributor.authorIhmels, Melanie
dc.contributor.supervisorMarks, Lynne
dc.contributor.supervisorLepp, Annalee
dc.date.accessioned2014-02-11T17:41:26Z
dc.date.available2014-02-11T17:41:26Z
dc.date.copyright2013en_US
dc.date.issued2014-02-11
dc.degree.departmentDepartment of Historyen_US
dc.degree.levelMaster of Arts M.A.en_US
dc.description.abstractThis thesis examines the beginning of Victoria, British Columbia’s, women’s movement, stretching its ‘start’ date to the late 1850s while arguing that, to some extent, the local movement criss-crossed racial, ethnic, religious, and gender boundaries. It also highlights how the people involved with the women’s movement in Victoria challenged traditional beliefs, like separate sphere ideology, about women’s position in society and contributed to the introduction of new more egalitarian views of women in a process that continues to the present day. Chapter One challenges current understandings of First Wave Feminism, stretching its limitations regarding time and persons involved with social reform and women’s rights goals, while showing that the issue of ‘suffrage’ alone did not make a ‘women’s movement’. Chapter 2 focuses on how the local ‘women’s movement’ coalesced and expanded in the late 1890s to embrace various social reform causes and demands for women’s rights and recognition, it reflected a unique spirit that emanated from Victorian traditionalism, skewed gender ratios, and a frontier mentality. Chapter 3 argues that an examination of Victoria’s movement, like any other ‘women’s movement’, must take into consideration the ethnic and racialized ‘other’, in this thesis the Indigenous, African Canadian, and Chinese. The Conclusion discusses areas for future research, deeper research questions, and raises the question about whether the women’s movement in Victoria was successful.en_US
dc.description.proquestcode0334en_US
dc.description.proquestcode0733en_US
dc.description.proquestcode0631en_US
dc.description.proquestemailmlihmels@shaw.caen_US
dc.description.scholarlevelGraduateen_US
dc.identifier.bibliographicCitationIhmels, M. L. “‘The New Chewing Gum’: The Women’s Suffrage Movement in the Okanagan Valley, 1890 to 1917.” Okanagan History, 72nd Report of the Okanagan Historical Society 72 (2008).en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1828/5178
dc.languageEnglisheng
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.rights.tempAvailable to the World Wide Weben_US
dc.subjectVictoria, British Columbia, Canadaen_US
dc.subjectCanadian Women's Historyen_US
dc.subjectfirst wave feminismen_US
dc.subjectracializationen_US
dc.subjectrace historyen_US
dc.subjectgender historyen_US
dc.subjectseparate sphere ideologyen_US
dc.subjectangel in the houseen_US
dc.subjectwestern egalitarianismen_US
dc.subjectwomen's rightsen_US
dc.subjectsocial reformen_US
dc.subjectsuffrageen_US
dc.subjectWomen's Christian temperance Unionen_US
dc.subjectWomen's Councilen_US
dc.subjectTimes Colonisten_US
dc.subjectFrontier mentalityen_US
dc.subjectethnicityen_US
dc.subjectlegal reformen_US
dc.subjectMaria Granten_US
dc.subjectMaternal Feminismen_US
dc.subjectwomen's equalityen_US
dc.subjectsexual equalityen_US
dc.subjectpolitical equalityen_US
dc.subjectFrances Willarden_US
dc.subjectSusan B. Anthonyen_US
dc.titleThe mischiefmakers: woman’s movement development in Victoria, British Columbia 1850-1910en_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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