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Record Nr.

UNINA9910824092103321

Autore

Rooke Patricia T

Titolo

No bleeding heart [[electronic resource] ] : Charlotte Whitton, a feminist on the right / / P.T. Rooke and R.L. Schnell

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Vancouver, : University of British Columbia Press, 1987

ISBN

1-283-22624-3

9786613226242

0-7748-5690-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (264 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

SchnellRodolph Leslie

Disciplina

971.3/84

Soggetti

Women social reformers - Canada

Feminists - Canada

Mayors - Ontario - Ottawa

Ottawa (Ont.) Biography

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Intro; Contents; Illustrations; Preface; Introduction: WHITTON AS LEGEND; Chapter One: LOTTIE; Chapter Two: INITIATION INTO PUBLIC LIFE; Chapter Three: AN OTTAWA MARRIAGE; Chapter Four: THE EMPIRE BUILDER; Chapter Five: A LARGER STAGE; Chapter Six: CAREER IN CRISIS; Chapter Seven: MID LIFE RESOLUTION; Chapter Eight: A WOMAN NOT A LADY; Chapter Nine: NO ANGEL BUT A GOOD MAYOR; Chapter Ten: ANGRY, ANXIOUS, AND AGING; Epilogue: THE AMBIGUOUS FEMINIST; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y

Sommario/riassunto

Although she is popularly remembered as Ottawa's pugnacious major, there are other important reasons for remembering Charlotte Whitton. One of this country's first generation of professional women, she championed the cause of child welfare across the country and worked hard for the status of women long before the word 'feminism' had passed into everyday language. What the authors show, however, in this biography is that Whitton does not fit comfortably into contemporary notions of the liberated woman. In spite of her progressive attitudes, she was also capable of vindictiveness,



intolerance, and contempt for the 'undeserving.'