No Bleeding Heart
Charlotte Whitton: A Feminist on the Right
Although she is popularly remembered as Ottawa's pugnacious major, there are other important reasons for remembering Charlotte Whitton. One of this country's first generation of professional women, she championed the cause of child welfare across the country and worked hard for the status of women long before the word "feminism" had passed into everyday language.
What the authors show, however, in this biography is that Whitton does not fit comfortably into contemporary notions of the liberated woman. In spite of her progressive attitudes, she was also capable of vindictiveness, intolerance, and contempt for the "undeserving."
It is to the credit of Rooke and Schnell that they have not only written a book which restores Whitton's place in history, but in doing so they have presented an interpretation of her life which explains why an uncomplimentary image of Whitton should be so persistent.
Illustrations
Preface
Introduction: Whitton as Legend
1. Lottie
2. Initiation into Public Life
3. An Ottawa Marriage
4. The Empire Builder
5. A Larger Stage
6. Career in Crisis
7. Mid Life Resolution
8. A Woman Not a Lady
9. No Angel but a Good Mayor
10. Angry, Anxious and Aging
Epilogue: The Ambiguous Feminist
Notes
Index
