NO BLEEDING HEART: CHARLOTTE WHITTON--A FEMINIST ON THE RIGHT. Rooke, P.T. and R.L. Schnell. Vancouver, UBC Press, 1987. 253pp, cloth. $26.95, ISBN 0-7748-0237-5. CIP Grades 12 and up Reviewed by Louise Dick Volume 16 Number 6 1988 November Rooke, editor of the Journal of Educational Thought, and Schnell, head of educational policy and administrative studies at the University of Calgary, have produced a readable and enlightening study of the strengths and flaws of a complex and remarkable personality. Whitton's career is important in the context of both the status of women and the development of our welfare and social service systems. As director of the Canadian Welfare Council, as lecturer and journalist on welfare and feminist issues, as controller and mayor of Ottawa, Charlotte Whitton became known for leadership and service, energy and ambition. Rooke and Schnell examine the connection between her public and personal life, her defeat, resentment, change of career, her social criticism, her single status. Whitton was committed to equality of opportunity, rights and pay but her feminism did not encompass sexual liberation or change in attitudes toward family life. The years of her life (1896-1975) span fundamental changes in the position of women. No Bleeding Heart shows Whitton as both victim and activist in these crucial years. Detailed notes with source citations, a full index and photo illustrations complement this lively and scholarly study. Louise Dick, Toronto, Ont.