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Jeanne Corbin typifies the female militants of the first generation
of Canadian Communists. Andrie Livesque's powerful account of the
experiences of Corbin and her female comrades reveals the essential
role women played in the movement. Livesque also shows that,
despite some efforts to construct egalitarian gender relations,
these women subordinated gender issues to the class struggle.
Corbin's "red itinerary" began when she joined the Young Communist
League in Edmonton. She later held party posts across the country
through her involvement with The Worker in Toronto, a French
communist paper in Montreal, the Workers' Cooperative in Timmins,
and a lumbermen's strike in Abitibi - where she was jailed for
taking part in a protest. She died of tuberculosis in London,
Ontario, in 1944. Livesque relies on a wide range of sources, from
the archives of the Third International and the Communist press to
private correspondence and interviews, to provide a unique
exploration of Canadian labour and social history as seen from the
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