| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 108.2

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Canada and the United States

Monda Halpern. And on that Farm He Had a Wife: Ontario Farm Women and Feminism, 1900–1970. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press. 2001. Pp. viii, 234. $70.00.

Monda Halpern has written an important book on a group of women who are often overshadowed by their prairie counterparts, or overlooked entirely. Moreover, she ably demonstrates why they should not be neglected. Focusing her study on twentieth-century Ontario farm women, Halpern argues that, contrary to popular belief, many were feminists, and that their views were more progressive than previously thought. Halpern's central thesis is that most of these women held "social" as opposed to "equity" feminist beliefs. She defines social feminism as a variant of maternal feminism that rejects the argument that women are distinct as a result of biology, seeing the distinctiveness instead as a product of a sexually segregated society and the world view it imposes. Unlike equity feminists who worked toward greater equality in existing patriarchical structures, social feminists "sought for women to remake, not simply fit into" these structures (p. 12). . . .

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