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Nellie McClung
Canadian feminist, political and social activist, involved in the suffrage and temperance movement.
McClung came to prominence during World War I, arguing how the important role that women played in the war effort should be translated to social and political rights (the public realm).
Challenged the conventions of the “separate spheres” ideology of the nineteenth century. However, as Carol Bacchi notes, “most Canadian suffragists were social reformers and members of a social elite … [who] asked that women be allowed to vote in order to impress certain values upon society, [including] Protestant morality, sobriety and family order.”