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1 online resource (x, 194 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
"In Organizing Rural Women Margaret Kechnie looks at the history of the Federated Women's Institutes of Ontario, popularly known as the Women's Institutes (WI), from the time the first branch was formed at Stoney Creek in 1897 until federation in 1919. Kechnie challenges the popular mythology that the WI began when Adelaide Hoodless called on farm women to organize and received an overwhelming response. She reveals the Hoodless had little to do with founding the WI, that early response to the organization was both disappointing and discouraging, and that for the first thirty-four years of its existence the WI was led by men, who defined the constitution of the organization and set many of its policies."--Jacket. |
| Contents |
""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""1 ""Shun Not the Struggle ... It Is God's Plan!"": The Historical Context of the Emergence of the Women's Institutes""; ""2 ""The Thing Most Needed Was Created"": The Growth of the Women's Institutes before Federation""; ""3 ""There Is No Class Distinction in Our Ranks"": Reflecting on the Leadership of the Women's Institutes""; ""4 ""Lucky If She Be Allowed to Keep the Egg Money"": The Relationship of Farm Women to the Women's Institutes""; ""5 ""We Have Tactfully Kept from Being Meddlesome"": Education as an Unresponsive Reform Tool"" |
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""6 ""We Have Gone a Long Way from the Principles of Cooking"": Embracing Community Outreach ""For Home and Country""""""7 ""The Little Acorn Has Become a Great Oak"": The Founding of the Federated Women's Institutes of Ontario""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Y"" |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Federated Women's Institutes of Ontario -- History.
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Federated Women's Institutes of Ontario. |
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History. |
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Federated Women's Institutes of Ontario. -- History. |
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Federated Women's Institutes of Ontario -- Histoire. |
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Rural women -- Ontario -- Societies, etc. -- History.
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Rural women. |
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Ontario. |
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Women's institutes -- Ontario -- History.
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Women's institutes. |
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Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Kechnie, Margaret. Organizing rural women. Montreal ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©2003 0773524606 (DLC) 2003501346 (OCoLC)49977850 |
| ISBN |
9780773570726 (electronic book) |
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0773570721 (electronic book) |
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0773524606 |
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9780773524606 |
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