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A Liberal-Labour Lady - The Times and Life of Mary Ellen Spear Smith (Hardcover)
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A Liberal-Labour Lady - The Times and Life of Mary Ellen Spear Smith (Hardcover)
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A Liberal-Labour Lady restores British Columbia's first female MLA
and the British Empire's first female cabinet minister to history.
An imperial settler, liberal-labour activist, and mainstream
suffragist, Mary Ellen Smith (1863-1933) demanded a fair deal for
"deserving" British women and men in the late nineteenth and early
twentieth centuries. She strove to shift Liberal parties leftward
to benefit women and workers, while still embracing global
assumptions of British racial superiority and bourgeois feminism's
privileging of white women. In the BC legislature until 1928, Smith
campaigned for better wages, pensions, and greater justice, even as
she endorsed anti-Asian, settler, and pro-eugenic policies.
Simultaneously intrepid and flawed, Smith is revealed to be a key
figure in early Canada's compromised struggle for greater justice.
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