The Communist Party and the Woman Question, 1922-1929
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3982997 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Joan Sangster (Trent University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1985 |
| Volume | 15 |
| Pages | 24 |
| Publication date | 1985-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Labour / Le Travail (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0700-3862 • E-ISSN: 1911-4842 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/25140552 |
| OpenAlex | W1517642176 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
THIS PAPER ANALYZES the Communist Party of Canada's view of the woman question, the role women played in the party, and the party's successes and failures in its attempts to organize working-class women. The Communist Party's view of the woman question was shaped by the advice of the USSR and the Communist International, as well as by the party's social base and the political understanding of its own membership. The Communist Party's Women's Department helped to create a new national organization for women, the Women's Labor Leagues, which, led by Florence Custance, experienced substantial growth in the 1920s. The Communist Party gave more attention to women's inequality than had previous socialist parties, although it failed to live up to its stated aims to organize working-class women and encourage women's participation in the revolutionary movement. CET ARTICLE ANALYSE la position du Parti communiste du Canada sur la question des femmes, le role des femmes a l'interieur du parti, ainsi que les succes et les echecs du parti dans ses tentatives d'organisation des femmes de la classe ouvriere. L'attilude du PCC sur la question des femmes etait influencee par le PCURSS et par la Troisieme Internationale ainsi que par la base sociale du parti et la comprehension politique de ses membres. La section des femmes du PCC contribua a creer une organisation nationale pour les femmes, La Ligue des femmes ouvrieres, qui, sous la direction de Florence Custance, connut une croissance substantielle pendant les annees 1920. Quoiqu'il ne realisa pas ses objectifs d'organiser les femmes de la classe ouvriere et d'encourager la participation des femmes dans le mouvement revolutionnaire, le PCC accorda quand meme plus d'attention a l'inegalite des femmes que les autres partis socialistes
Communism · Political science · Politics · Canadian Identity and History · Historical Gender and Feminism Studies · Law
| Citations per year | 0.11 |
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| Citation span | 1991 - 2021 (31) |
| Highly cited | No |