A Great Rural Sisterhood: Madge Robertson Watt and the ACWW

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As the founding president of the Associated Country Women of the World (ACWW), Madge Robertson Watt (1868–1948) turned imperialism on its head. All through the First World War, Watt imported the “made-in-Canada” concept of Women’s Institutes – voluntary associations of rural women – to the British countryside. Within the interwar years, she capitalized at the success of the Institutes to lend a hand create the ACWW, a global organization of rural women. A feminist imperialist and a liberal internationalist, Watt used to be central to the established order of two organizations which remain active all over the world nowadays.

In A Great Rural Sisterhood, Linda M. Ambrose uses a wealth of archival materials from both sides of the Atlantic to inform the tale of Watt’s remarkable life, from her early years as a Toronto journalist to her retirement and memorialization after the Second World War.

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