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Making Do
Women, Family and Home in Montreal During the Great Depression
Häftad, 1999
407 kr
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Life in the Great Depression - long lines of unemployed, soup kitchens, men riding the rails, public works projects - these are the graphic images of the Great Depression of the 1930s, popularized by the press and seared into our memories. But outside of a few distinctive stories gathered from the …
Something to Cry About
An Argument Against Corporal Punishment of Children in Canada
Häftad, 2002
433 kr
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Why does our society think it is okay to hit children? Almost everyone thinks it is wrong to abuse a child. But many parents and teachers believe it is okay to spank children, rap their knuckles, slap their faces, pull their hair and yank their arms, as long as the punishment does not result in …
Love Strong As Death
Lucy Peel's Canadian Journal, 1833-1836
Av J.I. Little
Häftad, 2001
448 kr
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A transcription of Lucy Peel's wonderfully readable journal was recently discovered in her descendent's house in Norwich, England. Sent in regular installments to her transatlantic relatives, the journal presents an intimate narrative of Lucy's Canadian sojourn with her husband, Edmund Peel, an …
Evangelical Balance Sheet
Character, Family, and Business in Mid-Victorian Nova Scotia
Av B. Anne Wood
Inbunden, 2006
1065 kr
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Using the journals of W. Norman Rudolf (1835-1886), a Victorian merchant, Evangelical Balance Sheet: Character, Family, and Business in Mid-Victorian Nova Scotia explores the important role of character ideals and evangelicalism in mid-Victorian culture. Rudolf's diary, with its daily weather …
Taking Responsibility for Children
Av Samantha Brennan, Robert Noggle
Häftad, 2007
500 kr
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What do we as a society, and as parents in particular, owe to our children? Each chapter in Taking Responsibility for Children offers part of an answer to that question. Although they vary in the approaches they take and the conclusions they draw, each contributor explores some aspect of the moral …
Babies for the Nation
The Medicalization of Motherhood in Quebec, 1910-1970
Häftad, 2009
515 kr
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Described by some as a ""necropolis for babies,"" the province of Quebec in the early twentieth century recorded infant mortality rates, particularly among French-speaking Catholics, that were among the highest in the Western world. This ""bleeding of the nation"" gave birth to a vast movement for …
One Best Way?
Breastfeeding History, Politics, and Policy in Canada
Häftad, 2009
401 kr
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In recent years, breastfeeding has been prominently in the public eye in relation to debates on issues ranging from parental leave policies, work−family balance, public decency, the safety of our food supply, and public health concerns such as health care costs and the obesity ""epidemic."" …
Dominion of Youth
Adolescence and the Making of Modern Canada, 1920 to 1950
Häftad, 2008
515 kr
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Adolescence, like childhood, is more than a biologically defined life stage: it is also a sociohistorical construction. The meaning and experience of adolescence are reformulated according to societal needs, evolving scientific precepts, and national aspirations relative to historic conditions. …
Fostering Nation?
Canada Confronts Its History of Childhood Disadvantage
Häftad, 2011
458 kr
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Fostering Nation? Canada Confronts Its History of Childhood Disadvantage explores the missteps and the promise of a century and more of child protection efforts by Canadians and their governments. It is the first volume to offer a comprehensive history of what life has meant for North America's …
Home Words
Discourses of Children’s Literature in Canada
Av Mavis Reimer
Häftad, 2017
575 kr
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The essays in Home Words explore the complexity of the idea of home through various theoretical lenses and groupings of texts. One focus of this collection is the relation between the discourses of nation, which often represent the nation as home, and the discourses of home in children's …
Evangelical Balance Sheet
Character, Family, and Business in Mid-Victorian Nova Scotia
Av B. Anne Wood
Häftad, 2020
515 kr
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Using the journals of W. Norman Rudolf (1835-1886), a Victorian merchant, Evangelical Balance Sheet: Character, Family, and Business in Mid-Victorian Nova Scotia explores the important role of character ideals and evangelicalism in mid-Victorian culture. Rudolf's diary, with its daily weather …
Cold War Comforts
Canadian Women, Child Safety, and Global Insecurity
Häftad, 2012
471 kr
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Cold War Comforts examines Canadian women's efforts to protect children's health and safety between the dropping of the first atomic bomb in Hiroshima in 1945 and the end of the Vietnam War in 1975. Amid this global insecurity, many women participated in civil defence or joined the disarmament …
Ontario Boys
Masculinity and the Idea of Boyhood in Postwar Ontario, 1945--1960
Häftad, 2014
515 kr
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Ontario Boys explores the preoccupation with boyhood in Ontario during the immediate postwar period, 1945-1960. It argues that a traditional version of boyhood was being rejuvenated in response to a population fraught with uncertainty, and suffering from insecurity, instability, and gender anxiety …
Brief History of Women in Quebec
Häftad, 2014
355 kr
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A Brief History of Women in Quebec examines the historical experience of women of different social classes and origins (geographic, ethnic, and racial) from the period of contact between Europeans and Aboriginals to the twenty-first century to give a nuanced and complex account of the main …
With Children and Youth
Emerging Theories and Practices in Child and Youth Care Work
Av Kiaras Gharabaghi, Hans A. Skott-Myhre m. fl.
Häftad, 2014
472 kr
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With Children and Youth provides a snapshot of emerging theories and perspectives in the field of child and youth care across North America. Well-known scholars and researchers present new and innovative critical perspectives, written in a provocative manner and reflecting outside-the-box thinking. …
Girls, Texts, Cultures
Av Clare Bradford, Mavis Reimer
Häftad, 2015
672 kr
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This book focuses on girls and girlhoods, texts for and about girls, and the cultural contexts that shape girls' experience. It brings together scholars from girls' studies and children's literature, fields that have traditionally conducted their research separately, and the collaboration showcases …
Abuse or Punishment?
Violence Toward Children in Quebec Families, 1850-1969
Häftad, 2014
645 kr
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At one time, the use of corporal punishment by parents in child-rearing was considered normal, but in the second half of the nineteenth century this begin to change, in Quebec as well as the rest of the Western world. It was during this period that the extent of ill-treatment inflicted on children …
Engendering Transnational Voices
Studies in Family, Work, and Identity
Av Guida Man, Rina Cohen
Häftad, 2015
528 kr
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Engendering Transnational Voices examines the transnational practices and identities of immigrant women, youth, and children in an era of global migration and neoliberalism, addressing such topics as family relations, gender and work, schooling, remittances, cultural identities, caring for children …
Growing Up in Armyville
Canada's Military Families During the Afghanistan Mission
Av Deborah Harrison, Patrizia Albanese
Häftad, 2016
515 kr
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It was 2006, and eight hundred soldiers from the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) base in pseudonymous ""Armyville,"" Canada, were scheduled to deploy to Kandahar. Many students in the Armyville school district were destined to be affected by this and several subsequent deployments. These deployments, …
Challenge of Children's Rights for Canada
Av Katherine Covell, R. Brian Howe m. fl.
Häftad, 2018
512 kr
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More than a quarter of a century has passed since Canada promised to recognize and respect the rights of children under the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. Ratification of the Convention cannot, however, guarantee that everyone will abandon proprietary notions about children, …
Question of Commitment
The Status of Children in Canada
Häftad, 2020
584 kr
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With the adoption of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989), commentators began to situate the evolution of the status of children within the context of the ""property to persons"" trajectory that other human rights stories had followed. In the first edition of A Question …
Boom Kids
Growing Up in the Calgary Suburbs, 1950-1970
Inbunden, 2021
1128 kr
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The baby boomers and postwar suburbia remain a touchstone. For many, there is a belief that it has never been as good for youngsters and their families, as it was in the postwar years. Boom Kids explores the triumphs and challenges of childhood and adolescence in Calgary's postwar suburbs. The …
Ring Around the Maple
A Sociocultural History of Children and Childhoods in Canada, 19th and 20th Centuries
Av Cynthia R. Comacchio, Neil Sutherland
Häftad, 2024
697 kr
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Ring Around the Maple is about the condition of children in Canada from roughly 1850 to 2000, a time during which “the modern” increasingly disrupted traditional ways. Authors Cynthia R. Comacchio and Neil Sutherland trace the lives of children over this “long century” with a view to synthesizing …
Home Words
Discourses of Children's Literature in Canada
Av Mavis Reimer
Inbunden, 2008
1163 kr
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The essays in Home Words explore the complexity of the idea of home through various theoretical lenses and groupings of texts. One focus of this collection is the relation between the discourses of nation, which often represent the nation as home, and the discourses of home in children's …
Depicting Canada's Children
Av Loren Lerner
Inbunden, 2009
639 kr
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Depicting Canada's Children is a critical analysis of the visual representation of Canadian children from the seventeenth century to the present. Recognizing the importance of methodological diversity, these essays discuss understandings of children and childhood derived from depictions across a …
