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Literature as pulpit
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ISBN: 9780889205635 0889205639 9780889202351 1280924934 9786610924936 Year: 2006 Publisher: [Waterloo, Ontario]

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Nellie L. McClung (1873-1951) was an internationally celebrated feminist and social activist whose success as a platform speaker was legendary. Her earliest notoriety was achieved as a writer, and during her lengthy career she authored four novels, two novellas, three collections of short stories, a two-volume autobiography and various collections of speeches, articles and wartime writing, to a total of sixteen volumes. All this served as a ""pulpit"" from which McClung could preach her gospel of feminist activism and social transformation. She was convinced that God's intention for Creati

Growing a race
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ISBN: 128352998X 9786613842435 0773573046 9780773573048 0773529373 9780773529373 6613842435 Year: 2005 Publisher: Montreal [Que.] McGill-Queen's University Press

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Cecily Devereux reconsiders the extent to which McClung's enduring legacy of crusading for women's rights is founded on the ideas of British eugenicists such as Francis Galton and Caleb Saleeby and implicated in the passage of eugenical legislation in Canada. In a critical study of Painted Fires, the Pearlie Watson books, and several short stories, Devereux attempts to understand McClung's fiction in terms of its engagement with a politics of "race" and nation and constructions of specifically "racial" impurities that many women saw themselves as uniquely able to "cure."

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