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    Ours by Every Law of Right and Justice
    Women and the Vote in the Prairie Provinces

    Sarah Carter (Author)

    9780774861885

    Paperback / softback, published 15 November 2021

    288 pages, 20 b&w photos
    21.6 x 14 x 2.1 cm, 0.38 kg

    Carter's book is undoubtedly required reading not only for students of suffrage history, Prairie history and Canadian history more generally but also for scholars interested in the empirical investigation of that history.

    - Gerard Boychuk, University of Waterloo (Canadian Journal of Political Science)

    "Sarah Carter's decades-long expertise in Prairie history ensures that the objective of viewing women's suffrage in both the wider socio-political context and the local environmental setting are handled with aplomb."

    - Katie Pickles, University of Canterbury. (University of Toronto Quarterly.)

    With clarity, sensitivity and deftness, Carter shows that these activists' accomplishments, and the oppression they furthered, were equally real… she sets a useful template for historians to examine and understand other similarly complex events and figures in Canadian history.

    - Amy Shaw, associate professor, University of Lethbridge (Canadian Journal of History) Outstanding research and a fluid writing style make this book an impressive, useful, and accessible history of Canadian women's fight for suffrage. Carter's portraits of the women leading the efforts bring the period to life for the reader ... It delves into complex political and sociological aspects of the movement and the unsettling biases of the movers. It includes the perspectives of Indigneous peoples, white British settlers, ethnic minorities, farm women, and the working class. An important contribution to women's studies. - WILLA Literary Award for Scholarly Nonfiction Judges

    Many of Canada's most famous suffragists – from Nellie McClung and Cora Hind to Emily Murphy and Henrietta Muir Edwards – lived and campaigned in the Prairie provinces, the region that led the way in granting women the right to vote and hold office.

    In Ours by Every Law of Right and Justice, award-winning author Sarah Carter challenges the myth that grateful male legislators simply handed western settler women the vote in recognition that they were equal partners in the pioneering process. Suffragists worked long and hard to overcome obstacles, persuade doubters, and build allies. But their work also had a dark side. Even as settler suffragists pressured legislatures to grant their sisters the vote, they often approved of that same right being denied to "foreigners" and Indigenous men and women.

    By situating the suffragists' struggle in the colonial history of Prairie Canada, this powerful and passionate book shows that the right to vote meant different things to different people – political rights and emancipation for some, domination and democracy denied for others.

    Introduction

    1 Settler Suffragists: Context, Causes, Obstacles

    2 Manitoba: A Long-Sustained and Just Agitation

    3 Saskatchewan: A Spark Nearly Smothered

    4 Alberta: Plain, Old-Fashioned, Unfrilled Justice

    5 A New Day Coming? Essential by Incomplete Victories

    Sources and Further Readings; Index
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