ABSTRACT
Between 1916 and 1930, the Home and School Council and its leaders sought to shape a version of political subjectivity of and for women in the domain of local educational politics, recently opened up for women. The women who formed the leadership of the Toronto Home and School Council between 1916 and 1930 were initially very active and interested in broad-based social and educational reform work. This chapter shows that their organizational activities and public representations not only presumed and effected their difference from and superiority over “other” women, but that their work also involved concerted attempts to shape and regulate the conduct and identities of their own members, of themselves. The women who formed the leadership of the Toronto Home and School Council between 1916 and 1930 were initially very active and interested in broad-based social and educational reform work. Early twentieth-century discourses of education reform were closely intertwined with rhetorics of civic virtue, citizenship, and national efficiency.
