Dorothy Inglis

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Dorothy Inglis ({{nee|Greer}}; 15 April 1926 – 22 May 2013) was a Canadian feminist, activist and author born in Calgary, Alberta, and raised in Vancouver, British Columbia. She spent most of her adulthood in Newfoundland.{{Cite news |url=https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/vancouversun/obituary.aspx?n=dorothy-constance-inglis&pid=164969495 |title=Obituary: Dorothy Constance Inglis |newspaper=Vancouver Sun |date=25 May 2013 |via=legacy.com |access-date=12 January 2022}}{{Cite web |url=https://canadians.org/analysis/memoriam-dorothy-inglis-passes-away |title=Memoriam: Dorothy Inglis Passes Away |publisher=Council of Canadians |first=Brent |last=Patterson |year=2013 |access-date=12 January 2022}}{{Cite news |url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/feminist-activist-dorothy-inglis-dead-at-87-1.1344562 |title=Feminist, activist Dorothy Inglis dead at 87 |work=CBC News |date=24 May 2013 |access-date=12 January 2022}}

Political roles

Inglis was active in advocating for women's rights. She was a founding member of St. John's Status of Women Council and the Newfoundland Status of Women Council, and served on the National Action Committee on the Status of Women from 1982 until 1986, acting as vice-president from 1984. In 1988, she represented Canadian Voice of Women for Peace as a delegate to the 1988 Conference on Disarmament. She also had leadership roles in the Newfoundland and Labrador New Democratic Party.

For eight years, she wrote the feminist column for The Telegram in St. John's.{{Cite journal |url=https://collections.mun.ca/digital/collection/quarterly/id/39461/ |title=Bread and Roses |first=Linda |last=Cullum |journal=The Newfoundland Quarterly |volume=91 |number=3&4 |date=Winter 1998 |page=47}} In 1996, Killick Press published a selection of 58 of her columns in a volume titled Bread and Roses. It was awarded the Evelyn Richardson Memorial Literary Award in 1997.{{Cite book |title=Twenty-first-century Canadian Writers |publisher=Thomson Gale |year=2007 |page=317}}

A vocal opponent of pornography, Inglis was concerned that material she had seen as "innocent titillation" in the 1950s had become disturbingly graphic by the 1980s.{{Cite book |url=https://journals.uvic.ca/index.php/ctheory/article/view/14029/4801 |chapter=Pornography and Censorship |page=106 |title=Feminism Now: Theory and Practice |year=1985 |editor1-first=Marilouise |editor1-last=Kroker |editor2-first=Arthur |editor2-last=Kroker |editor3-first=Pamela |editor3-last=McCallum |editor4-first=Mair |editor4-last=Veithuy |publisher=New World Perspectives |isbn=0-920393-03-9}}

Honours

Inglis was honoured with a Governor General's Persons Award and a doctor of laws degree from Memorial University.{{Cite web |title=Governor General Awards in Commemoration of the Persons Case - Status of Women Canada |url=https://cfc-swc.gc.ca/commemoration/gg/recip-laure/1989-en.html#archived |access-date=2022-11-21 |website=cfc-swc.gc.ca|date=26 November 2020 }}