| | The Feminist Challenge to the Canadian Left, 1900-1918. by Helen Harrison (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02) |
 | | She argues that socialist feminists 'framed their own political mobilization in a way that reflected the realities and experiences of their lives.' In this way, they 'accepted maternal feminism and turned it to radical ends, making the home a primary site for radical socialist transformation' (10). |
 | | Given that socialist campaign literature encouraged workers to associate socialism with a reinvigorated masculinity, and capitalism with emasculated manhood, it is not surprising that women had difficulty finding support for an agenda that linked women's issues to socialism. |
 | | Thus, Newton concludes that in confronting issues of class and gender oppression, socialist feminists were both more rigorous in their analysis and more radical in their solutions than either the mainstream feminists or the socialist party élites. |
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