{"id":4403,"date":"2023-03-10T12:42:03","date_gmt":"2023-03-10T17:42:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.genealogiequebec.com\/blog\/?p=4403\/"},"modified":"2023-03-14T14:12:12","modified_gmt":"2023-03-14T18:12:12","slug":"quebec-women-farmers-circles-and-their-relationship-with-feminism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genealogiequebec.com\/blog\/en\/2023\/03\/10\/quebec-women-farmers-circles-and-their-relationship-with-feminism\/","title":{"rendered":"Quebec Women Farmers&#8217; Circles and their relationship with feminism"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.genealogiequebec.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/IGD-large-1024x336.png\" alt=\"L\u2019attribut alt de cette image est vide, son nom de fichier est IGD-large-1024x336.png.\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A couple of weeks ago, as I was going through <a href=\"https:\/\/www.genealogiequebec.com\/en\/\">Genealogy Quebec<\/a>\u2019s databases, I found a folder in the Raymond-Gingras fund named &#8221;Cercle de Fermi\u00e8res&#8221; (Women Farmers&#8217; Circle).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"765\" src=\"https:\/\/www.genealogiequebec.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/La-petite-histoire-des-paroisses-de-la-federation-des-cercles-des-fermiere_Page_01-1-1024x765.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4404\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.genealogiequebec.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/La-petite-histoire-des-paroisses-de-la-federation-des-cercles-des-fermiere_Page_01-1-1024x765.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.genealogiequebec.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/La-petite-histoire-des-paroisses-de-la-federation-des-cercles-des-fermiere_Page_01-1-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.genealogiequebec.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/La-petite-histoire-des-paroisses-de-la-federation-des-cercles-des-fermiere_Page_01-1-768x573.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.genealogiequebec.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/La-petite-histoire-des-paroisses-de-la-federation-des-cercles-des-fermiere_Page_01-1-1536x1147.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.genealogiequebec.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/La-petite-histoire-des-paroisses-de-la-federation-des-cercles-des-fermiere_Page_01-1.jpg 1650w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption><em>The little story of Saint-Antoine-de-Tilly, written by the Women Farmers\u2019 Circle of the town. Source : <a href=\"https:\/\/www.genealogiequebec.com\/en\/\">Genealogy Quebec<\/a>, Raymond-Gingras Fund.<\/em><br><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Inside, I found a series of photographs of a short text produced by a Women Farmers\u2019 Circle, which tells the story of Saint-Antoine-de-Tilly, a small municipality located in Chaudi\u00e8re-Appalaches. I was curious. Women Farmers\u2019 Circles\u2026 I remembered seeing this name somewhere. I knew it was a women\u2019s association who did crafts. Not much more. Intrigued, I did more research.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What are Quebec Women Farmers&#8217; Circles ?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>In fact, Women Farmers\u2019 Circles are not only <em>a <\/em>women\u2019s association, but <em>the first <\/em>women\u2019s association in Quebec ! They were founded in 1915 (a bit ironically) by a man, Alphonse D\u00e9silets, an agronomist who defended \u201cthe principle of rural associations to resolve the crisis of the modern world\u201d<sup>1<\/sup> (Cohen, 1990 : 28). The members of the association were, as its name indicates, farmers, and they came together in the Circles mainly to help each other in their various tasks and to better meet the needs of their families. They ran cooperative gardens, helped each other make clothes for the family, all sorts of things which helped improve their quality of life. The groups were then under the direction of the Ministry of Agriculture, in concert with the Church.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From 1940, the Circles progressively gained autonomy, until they no longer depended on the Church or the State. As Quebec urbanized, there were fewer and fewer farmers among the members, but the group chose to keep its name. Despite the evolution of society, we can observe a certain continuity in the activities of the Circles : members are still doing crafts, knitting, weaving and cooking. They consider themselves guardians of the craft and culinary heritage (Beaudoin et Joncas, 2021 : 46) and transmit their knowledge to younger members or the larger community. The Circles are also an important space of sociability for the women who participate and they help break isolation, among retired women for example. Women Farmers\u2019 Circles finally have a political function, helping their members stay informed as citizens, trying to influence government policies, but also by maintaining links with various organizations (such as the Associated Country Women of the World, the Coalition for Gun Control, Canadian Breast Cancer Network, etc.) (Lagarde,&nbsp;2015&nbsp;: 5).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.genealogiequebec.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/3-Tacon_Site-Fibres_Naturelles-2010-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4405\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.genealogiequebec.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/3-Tacon_Site-Fibres_Naturelles-2010-1.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.genealogiequebec.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/3-Tacon_Site-Fibres_Naturelles-2010-1-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption><em>The Women Farmers\u2019 Circles greatly contribute to the transmission of artisanal knowledge within Quebec society. Here, a child learns to use a loom during a workshop given by Alma\u2019s Women Farmers\u2019 Circle. Source : Wikimedia Commons.<\/em><br><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Women Farmers\u2019 Circles and feminism<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Even though they are a women\u2019s association, now run by and for women, Quebec Women Farmers\u2019 Circles do not impose themselves, at first glance, as feminist groups. Indeed, the Circles have spoken out against women&#8217;s right to vote and against the right to abortion. Their positions evolved over time, but the Circles are still promoting the roles traditionally attributed to women, such as caring for the family and domestic work. This posture further distances them from feminist demands, which often link emancipation and the possibility for women to break out of stereotypes and gender roles if they wish to do so.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nevertheless, in my opinion, it would be disproportionate to completely exclude them from the history of feminism in Quebec. Indeed, the Circles worked hard to improve the living conditions of women and have been a driving force for promoting the activities typically practiced by women, in particular by promoting the culinary and artisanal achievements of their members. They are also a space in which the ethics of care<sup>2<\/sup><em> <\/em>can be lived and practiced. Indeed, the Women Farmers\u2019 Circles were created at first to to promote mutual aid between members, but beyond this mission, the Circles also take care of their wider communities, for example through the organization of community meals, volunteering and partnerships with charities or their influence on public policy<sup>3<\/sup>. Above all, although the Circles promote the traditional roles that women occupy in the private sphere, they were, and in some respects may still be today, a public space that women can fully inhabit, where they can express themselves, do organizational work, and even do politics<sup>4<\/sup>, in short, where they can learn typical male work but do it in their own way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Women Farmers\u2019 Circles therefore occupy a very particular position in our history and are victims of a double erasing : we don&#8217;t talk about them much when we do the history of Quebec, because we don&#8217;t talk much about women in general; but we also speak little about them when we construct a history of women from a feminist perspective, since their positions deviated (and still deviate, in certain respects) from those taken by the feminist movement. It\u2019s nevertheless impossible to deny the role the Circles played, both globally in the history of Quebec society and more specifically in the history of women in Quebec. They were one of the first drivers of women&#8217;s empowerment and affirmation, encouraging them to leave the private and family sphere (Cohen, 1990: 263). The Circles also participated fully in the development of the national project. Indeed, through their requests made to the State and their rejection of the influence of the clergy on their organization, they participated in the establishment of two central pillars to the development of Quebec: the development of a modern and protective State and the deconfessionalization of society (Cohen, 1990: 263).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Like any organization, it is of course best not to idealize the Women Farmers\u2019 Circles and to underline their limits, particularly in terms of feminist positioning. However, it also seems essential to make their contribution to the history of women and Quebec society visible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To learn more about Quebec Women Farmers\u2019 Circles, I invite you to read Yolande Cohen\u2019s book <em>Femmes de Parole : l\u2019histoire des Cercles de Fermi\u00e8res du Qu\u00e9bec<\/em> (1990) (although as far as I know, it\u2019s only available in French) or to watch the documentary <em>All That We Make<\/em>, directed by Annie Saint-Pierre (2013).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><sup>1 &nbsp;<\/sup>This quote was translated from French by the author of this article.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><sup>2<\/sup> &nbsp;Ethics of care are based in the maintenance of human relationships as well as in the interdependence of individuals. Care aims to \u2018\u2019maintain, continue, and repair our \u2018world\u2019 so that we can live in it as well as possible. That world includes our bodies, our selves, and our environment, all of which we seek to interweave in a complex, life-sustaining web\u2019\u2019 (Fisher and Tronto, 1990 : 40). For more details, you can read my article about genealogy and care <a href=\"https:\/\/www.genealogiequebec.com\/blog\/en\/2021\/11\/17\/genealogy-and-care-work\/\">here<\/a>. It\u2019s also important to note that these ethics can be linked to the christian values of the organization.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><sup>3<\/sup> &nbsp;They are notably at the origin of programs for the distribution of milk cartons in schools (Radio-Canada, 2015).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><sup>4<\/sup>&nbsp;I\u2019m thinking in particular of the women who are involved in the organization of the Circles and who are democratically elected as presidents, whether at regional or national level.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><strong>Bibliography<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">Beaudoin, Christiane and Joncas, Gis\u00e8le. \u00ab&nbsp;Le Cercle de Fermi\u00e8res de Gasp\u00e9 : 50 ans par et pour les femmes \u00bb. <em>Magazine Gasp\u00e9sie<\/em>, vol.57, no.3 (199), p.46-48.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">Cohen, Yolande (1990). <em>Femmes de parole : l\u2019histoire des Cercles de Fermi\u00e8res du Qu\u00e9bec 1915-1990<\/em>. Montr\u00e9al : Le Jour \u00c9diteur, 315 pages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">Lagarde, Louise (2015). \u00ab Les Cercles de Fermi\u00e8res du Qu\u00e9bec : 100 ans de savoir \u00e0 partager \u00bb. <em>Histoire Qu\u00e9bec<\/em>, vol.20, no.3, p.5-9.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">Radio-Canada (2015). \u00ab&nbsp;Les Cercles de Fermi\u00e8res \u00bb, segment of the show <em>L\u2019\u00e9picerie<\/em>, 13:37 &#8211; 18:10. Consulted February 13th 2023 : <a href=\"https:\/\/curio.ca\/fr\/catalog\/533431a2-2c93-4945-b476-f87009fc0158\">https:\/\/curio.ca\/fr\/catalog\/533431a2-2c93-4945-b476-f87009fc0158<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">Saint-Pierre, Annie (2013). <em>All That We Make<\/em>, documentary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">Fisher, Berenice and Tronto, Joan. (1990). \u201dTowards a Feminist Theory of Care\u201d. In <em>Circles of care<\/em>, Abel, E. and Nelson, M. (ed.). New York : State University of New York Press, p.36-54.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of weeks ago, as I was going through Genealogy Quebec\u2019s databases, I found a folder in the Raymond-Gingras fund named &#8221;Cercle de Fermi\u00e8res&#8221; (Women Farmers&#8217; Circle). 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