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By Anna Moorhouse

Dr. Lara Campbell has won the Basil Stuart-Stubbs Prize for outstanding Scholarly Book on British Columbia for her book . The $2,500 prize, given by UBC Library and the Pacific BookWorld News Society, will be awarded later this year.

Published by UBC Press as part of the , Dr. Campbell鈥檚 book examines how the case for female enfranchisement in British Columbia grew and gained support, while negotiating the ambiguities and features that distinguished the movement in British Columbia.

鈥淲谤颈迟颈苍驳&苍产蝉辫;A Great Revolutionary Wave has been a wonderful opportunity to bring together my long-standing interest in gender and women鈥檚 history and my appreciation for the history of British Columbia. I moved to Vancouver 16 years ago, and learning about the history of this province has been an ongoing project and a great joy,鈥� says Dr. Campbell. 鈥淏ritish Columbia has been continually overlooked in histories about women鈥檚 struggle for political equality. Archival research revealed that suffragists in the province were more diverse in terms of class background, and more open to debate and public confrontation, than previous historians have imagined. But while suffrage claims to equality challenged male authority in often inspiring ways, I hope readers get a strong sense of how they were also built on racial exclusion and Indigenous dispossession. I took the suffrage story into the late 1940s to try to capture the desire for political equality expressed by racialized men and women in the province, and to honour the rich histories of community organizing for political and racial equality.鈥�

鈥淒r. Campbell鈥檚 book skilfully provides sensitive source-reading and disciplined exposition on the suffrage movement in British Columbia,鈥� says Dr. Susan E. Parker, UBC鈥檚 University Librarian. 鈥淲e are pleased to recognize a book published by UBC Press and by an academic who has made her home in British Columbia.鈥� 

Dr. Campbell is a professor in the Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women鈥檚 Studies at 丁香园AV where she currently serves as Associate Dean of Undergraduate Programming, Teaching and Learning, and Student Experience. Her first book, Respectable Citizens: Gender, Family, and Unemployment in Ontario鈥檚 Great Depression, 1929-1939, was recognized with Honorable Mentions from the Canadian Women鈥檚 Studies Association and the Canadian Historical Association.

The book is available at the  for purchase.

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