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  • - Mennonite Refugees of the Second World War
    av Marlene Epp
    420 - 797,-

    The story of thousands of Mennonite women who, having lost their husbands and fathers, assumed altered gender roles in their adopted homeland and created a culture of women refugees with its own distinctive historical narrative.

  • - Psychology, Schooling, and the Family in Postwar Canada
    av Mona Gleason
    730,-

    Postwar insecurity about the stability of family life became a platfrorm to elevate the role of psychologists in society, Their ideal of 'normal' as the healthy goal for society, marginalizing and silencing those who did not fit the model.

  • - Gender, Class, and Englishness in the Elementary School, 1880-1914
    av Stephen J. Heathorn
    730,-

    A demonstration of how a specific ideal of national heritage was consciously nurtured by England's elementary school system at the turn of the century. Implicit within this ideal was an ideology that reinforced gender, class, and race distinctions.

  • - Italian Workers of the World
     
    983,-

    In this transnational analysis of women and gender in Italy's world-wide migration, Franca Iacovetta and Donna Gabaccia challenge the stereotype of the Italian immigrant woman as silent and submissive; a woman who stays 'in the shadows.'

  • - Montreal's Modern Girls and the Law, 1869-1945
    av Tamara Myers
    491 - 1 023,-

    Caught exposes the attempts made by the juvenile justice system of the day to curb modern attitudes and behaviour; at the same time, it reveals the changing patterns of social and family interaction among adolescent girls.

  • - Isabel and Oscar Skelton Reinventing Canada
    av Terry Crowley
    514 - 876,-

    This book traces the lives of two people who rejected British colonialism and hailed a new nation on the world's stage, examining the intersections of gender, nationality, and literary expression at a significant juncture in Canada's history.

  • - Employability, Domesticity and the Gendering of Canada's Welfare State, 1939-1947
    av Jennifer Anne Stephen
    456 - 969,-

    This engaging study not only adds to the debates about the gendered origins of Canada's welfare state, it also makes an important contribution to Canadian social history, labour and gender studies, sociology, and political science.

  • - Volume II Canada - National and Transnational Contexts
    av Maureen Moynagh & Nancy M. Forestell
    456 - 876,-

    Together with its first volume, Documenting First Wave Feminisms reveals a more nuanced picture, attentive to nationalism and transnationalism, of the first wave than has previously been understood.

  • - The Perils and Pleasures of the City, 1880-1930
    av Carolyn Strange
    444,-

    The overriding observation is that Torontonians projected their fears and hopes about urban industrialization onto the figure of the working girl.

  • av Jane Nicholas & Patrizia Gentile
    621 - 817,-

    In this first collection on the history of the body in Canada, an interdisciplinary group of scholars explores the multiple ways the body has served as a site of contestation in Canadian history in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

  • - Volume 1: Transnational Collaborations and Crosscurrents
     
    930,-

    Using primary documents dating from the abolitionist movement to the Second World War, Maureen Moynagh and Nancy Forestell investigate the tensions inherent in organizing early transnational feminist movements.

  • - Sexual Deviancy in Postwar Ontario
    av Elise Chenier
    659 - 930,-

    Strangers in Our Midst offers an original critical analysis of the rise of sexological thinking in Canada, and shows how what was conceived as a humane alternative to traditional punishment could be put into practice in inhumane ways.

  • - A Historian's Biography
    av John Reid
    624,-

    In this probing biography, John G. Reid examines Barnes's life as a female historian, providing a revealing glimpse into the gendered experience of professional academia in that era.

  • - Regulating Vancouver's Beer Parlours, 1925-1954
    av Robert A. Campbell
    397 - 730,-

    Campbell argues that the regulation of the environment of the classic beer parlour, rather than being an example of social control, is best understood as moral regulation and part of a process of normalization.

  • - Lives of Working Women in Small Town Ontario, 1920-60
    av Joan Sangster
    420,-

    Earning Respect examines the lives of white and blue-collar women workers in Peterborough between 1920 and 1960 and notes the emerging changes in their work lives, as working daughters gradually became working mothers.

  • - Women and the Rise of Canadian Consumer Culture
    av Donica Belisle
    337 - 810,-

    Why do Canadians consume? This book explores the meanings of consumption in early-twentieth-century Canada, demonstrating that many Canadians have long viewed consumer goods as central to their visions of belonging, identity, and citizenship.

  • - Postwar Youth and the Making of Heterosexuality
    av Mary Louise Adams
    523 - 730,-

    Mary Louise Adams shows how, during the postwar years in Canada, the sexual and social activity of young people was 'normalized,' and how this discourse on sexuality articulated contemporary concerns about family, security, and the role of the state.

  • - Gender, Race, and the Making of British Columbia, 1849-1871
    av Adele Perry
    456 - 876,-

    Perry examines the efforts of a loosely connected group of reformers to transform a colonial environment into one that more closely adhered to the practices of respectable, middle-class European society.

  • - Reading Chatelaine Magazine in the Fifties and Sixties
    av Valerie J. Korinek
    514 - 1 076,-

    Korinek shows that rather than promoting domestic perfection, Chatelaine did not cling to the stereotypes of the era, but instead forged ahead, providing women with a variety of images, ideas, and critiques of women's role in society.

  • - Migration and the Transformation of Rural Women, Sicily, 1880-1928
    av Linda Reeder
    474 - 930,-

    Tracing the changing notions of female and male in rural Sicily, Linda Reeder examines the lives of rural Sicilian women and the changes that took place as a result of male migration to the United States.

  • - Italian Workers of the World
     
    514,-

    In this transnational analysis of women and gender in Italy's world-wide migration, Franca Iacovetta and Donna Gabaccia challenge the stereotype of the Italian immigrant woman as silent and submissive; a woman who stays 'in the shadows.'

  • av Wendy Mitchinson
    720 - 930,-

    A fascinating account of childbirth rituals in the first half of the twentieth century from the initial diagnosis of pregnancy,though childbirth - who was present, and where it took place - to the definition of what constituted a normal birth.

  • - The Times and Texts of E. Pauline Johnson (Tekahionwake)
    av Carole Gerson & Veronica Strong-Boag
    456,-

    The only major scholarly study that examines E. Pauline Johnson's diverse roles as a First Nations champion, New Woman, serious writer and performer, and Canadian nationalist.

  • - A History of the Sixties Scoop and the Colonization of Indigenous Kinship
    av Allyson Stevenson
    373 - 738,-

    Intimate Integration is an important analysis of the "Sixties Scoop" and post-World War II child welfare legislation in North America.

  • - Volume 1: Transnational Collaborations and Crosscurrents
     
    659,-

    Using primary documents dating from the abolitionist movement to the Second World War, Maureen Moynagh and Nancy Forestell investigate the tensions inherent in organizing early transnational feminist movements.

  • - Japanese Canadian Women, Memory, and the Subjects of the Internment
    av Mona Oikawa
    500 - 969,-

    Disturbing and provocative, Cartographies of Violence explores Japanese-Canadian women's memories in order to map the effects of forced displacements, incarcerations, and the separations of family, friends, and communities.

  • - Icelandic North Americans
    av L.K. Bertram
    397 - 810,-

    Each chapter in The Viking Immigrants is devoted to exploring Icelandic culture community through a particular methodological lens, from oral histories and material culture to histories of food and drink.

  • - Feminine Modernities, the Body, and Commodities in the 1920s
    av Jane Nicholas
    511,-

    Using a wide range of visual and textual evidence, Nicholas illuminates both the frequent public debates about female appearance and the realities of feminine self-presentation in 1920s Canada.

  • - Canada's Ukrainian Left, 1891-1991
    av Rhonda L. Hinther
    664,-

    In Perogies and Politics, Rhonda Hinther explores the twentieth-century history of the Ukrainian left in Canada from the standpoint of the women, men, and children who formed and fostered it.

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