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Marriage of Minds
Isabel and Oscar Skelton Reinventing Canada
Inbunden, 2003
946 kr
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Oscar Skelton (1878-1941) was a prominent early-twentieth century scholar who became a civil servant and political advisor to prime ministers Mackenzie King and R.B. Bennett. He wrote a number of important books and one, Socialism: A Critical Analysis, was highly praised by Vladimir Lenin. His …
Women, Gender, and Transnational Lives
Italian Workers of the World
Av Donna R Gabaccia, Franca Iacovetta
Inbunden, 2002
1033 kr
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Scholars in the United States have long defined the Italian immigrant woman as silent and submissive; a woman who stays 'in the shadows'. In this transnational analysis of women and gender in Italy's world-wide migration, Franca Iacovetta and Donna Gabaccia use international and internationalist …
Giving Birth in Canada, 1900-1950
Inbunden, 2002
1006 kr
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In Giving Birth in Canada, the first historical study of childbirth in Canada, Wendy Mitchinson has written a fascinating account of childbirth rituals in the first half of the twentieth century. Thorough and comprehensive, the work is based on a rich variety of sources, including medical …
Roughing It in the Suburbs
Reading Chatelaine Magazine in the Fifties and Sixties
Inbunden, 2000
1120 kr
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Originally launched in 1928, by the 1950s and 1960s nearly two million readers every month sampled "Chatelaine" magazine's eclectic mixture of traditional and surprisingly unconventional articles and editorials. At a time when the American women's magazine market began to flounder thanks to the …
Women Without Men
Mennonite Refugees of the Second World War
Av Marlene Epp
Inbunden, 2000
831 kr
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Marlene Epp, who has written extensively on Mennonite history, presents here the story of thousands of Soviet Mennonite women who, having lost their husbands and fathers to Stalinist work camps and the Second World War, made an arduous journey through war-torn Europe. Housed in displaced persons …
Household Politics
Montreal Families and Postwar Reconstruction
Av Magda Fahrni
Häftad, 2005
484 kr
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The reconstruction of Canadian society in the wake of the Second World War had an enormous impact on all aspects of public and private life. For families in Montreal, reconstruction plans included a stable home life hinged on social and economic security, female suffrage, welfare-state measures, …
Earning Respect
The Lives of Working Women in Small Town Ontario, 1920-1960
Häftad, 1995
414 kr
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Between 1920 and 1960 wage-earning women in factories and offices experienced dramatic shifts in their employment conditions, the result of both the Depression and the expansion of work opportunities during the Second World War. Earning Respect examines the lives of white and blue-collar women …
Toronto's Girl Problem
The Perils and Pleasures of the City, 1880-1930
Häftad, 1995
416 kr
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With the turn of the century came increased industrialization and urbanization, and in Toronto one of the most visible results of this modernization was the influx of young, single women to the city. They came seeking work, independence, and excitement, but they were not to realize these goals …
Revivals and Roller Rinks
Religion, Leisure, and Identity in Late-Nineteenth-Century Small-Town Ontario
Av Lynne Marks
Häftad, 1997
372 kr
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In this examination of the social and cultural meanings of religion and leisure in nineteenth-century small-town Ontario, Lynne Marks looks inside churches, hotel bars, fraternal lodge rooms, and roller-skating rinks to discover the extent to which a particular Protestant value system and lifestyle …
Marriage of Minds
Isabel and Oscar Skelton Reinventing Canada
Häftad, 2003
544 kr
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Oscar Skelton (1878-1941) was a prominent early-twentieth century scholar who became a civil servant and political advisor to prime ministers Mackenzie King and R.B. Bennett. He wrote a number of important books and one, Socialism: A Critical Analysis, was highly praised by Vladimir Lenin. His …
Viola Florence Barnes, 1885-1979
A Historian's Biography
Av John Reid
Inbunden, 2005
678 kr
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Viola Florence Barnes was one of the most prominent women historians in the United States from the 1920s to the 1950s. Born in 1885, Barnes was educated at Yale University and began teaching at Mount Holyoke College in 1919. She was an instrumental member of the 'imperial school' of historians, who …
Paddling Her Own Canoe
The Times and Texts of E. Pauline Johnson (Tekahionwake)
Av Veronica Strong-Boag, Carole Gerson
Häftad, 2000
484 kr
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Frequently dismissed as a 'nature poet' and an 'Indian Princess' E. Pauline Johnson (1861-1913) was not only an accomplished thinker and writer but a contentious and passionate personality who 'talked back' to Euro-Canadian culture. Paddling Her Own Canoe is the only major scholarly study that …
Roughing It in the Suburbs
Reading Chatelaine Magazine in the Fifties and Sixties
Häftad, 2000
528 kr
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Originally launched in 1928, by the 1950s and 1960s nearly two million readers every month sampled "Chatelaine" magazine's eclectic mixture of traditional and surprisingly unconventional articles and editorials. At a time when the American women's magazine market began to flounder thanks to the …
Trouble with Normal
Postwar Youth and the Making of Heterosexuality
Häftad, 1997
372 kr
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In the years after the Second World War, economic and social factors combined to produce an intense concern over the sexual development and behaviour of young people. In a context where heterosexuality and 'normality' were understood to be synonymous and assumed to be necessary for social and …
On the Edge of Empire
Gender, Race, and the Making of British Columbia, 1849-1871
Av Adele Perry
Häftad, 2001
455 kr
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"On the Edge of Empire" is a well-written, carefully researched, and persuasively argued book that delineates the centrality of race and gender in the making of colonial and national identities, and in the re-writing of Canadian history as colonial history. Utilising feminist and post-colonial …
Women, Gender, and Transnational Lives
Italian Workers of the World
Av Donna R Gabaccia, Franca Iacovetta
Häftad, 2002
528 kr
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Scholars in the United States have long defined the Italian immigrant woman as silent and submissive; a woman who stays 'in the shadows'. In this transnational analysis of women and gender in Italy's world-wide migration, Franca Iacovetta and Donna Gabaccia use international and internationalist …
Giving Birth in Canada, 1900-1950
Häftad, 2002
544 kr
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In Giving Birth in Canada, the first historical study of childbirth in Canada, Wendy Mitchinson has written a fascinating account of childbirth rituals in the first half of the twentieth century. Thorough and comprehensive, the work is based on a rich variety of sources, including medical …
Widows in White
Migration and the Transformation of Rural Women, Sicily, 1880-1928
Av Linda Reeder
Häftad, 2003
489 kr
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The transnational migrations of the early twentieth century had a profound impact on the lives of many people, but none more so than those who were left behind. In this lively interdisciplinary study, Linda Reeder examines the lives of rural Sicilian women and the changes that took place as a …
Documenting First Wave Feminisms
Volume 1: Transnational Collaborations and Crosscurrents
Av Maureen Moynagh, Nancy Forestell
Inbunden, 2012
961 kr
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Contemporary feminists are used to juggling many different identities at once, balancing affiliations based on race, nation, class, and sexuality. First-wave feminists also negotiated-or failed to negotiate-similar tensions in their international organizing. Using primary documents dating from the …
Jailed for Possession
Illegal Drug Use, Regulation, and Power in Canada, 1920-1961
Häftad, 2006
414 kr
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As rates of illegal drug use increase, the debates over drug policy heat up. While some believe penalties should be harsher, others advocate complete decriminalisation. Certainly, debate over the 'war on drugs' is not new. In the early 1920s, as the drive for Chinese Exclusion gathered steam, …
Documenting First Wave Feminisms
Volume II Canada - National and Transnational Contexts
Av Nancy Forestell, Maureen Moynagh
Häftad, 2013
455 kr
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This book is the second of a two-volume anthology of primary source documents on feminism in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Unique in its extensive treatment of the first-wave feminist movement in Canada, it highlights distinct elements of its origins and evolution.The book is …
Pick One Intelligent Girl
Employability, Domesticity and the Gendering of Canada's Welfare State, 1939-1947
Häftad, 2007
455 kr
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During the tumultuous formative years of the Canadian welfare state, many women rose through the ranks of the federal civil service to oversee the massive recruitment of Canadian women to aid in the Second World War. Ironically, it became the task of these same female mandarins to encourage women …
Caught
Montreal's Modern Girls and the Law, 1869-1945
Av Tamara Myers
Häftad, 2006
518 kr
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From the late nineteenth century to the Second World War, a 'young and modern' girl problem emerged in Montreal in the context of social and cultural turmoil. In Caught, Tamara Myers explores how the foundation and implementation of Quebec's juvenile justice system intersected with Montreal's …
Strangers in Our Midst
Sexual Deviancy in Postwar Ontario
Häftad, 2008
484 kr
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Contemporary efforts to treat sex offenders are rooted in the post-Second World War era, in which an unshakable faith in science convinced many Canadian parents that pedophilia could be cured. Strangers in Our Midst explores the popularization of the notion of sexual deviancy as a way of …
Agents of Empire
British Female Migration to Canada and Australia, 1860-1930
Av Lisa Chilton
Häftad, 2007
430 kr
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The period between the 1860s and the 1920s saw a wave of female migration from Britain to Canada and Australia, much of which was managed by women. In Agents of Empire, Lisa Chilton explores the work of the women who promoted, managed, and ultimately transformed single British women's experiences …
Prairie Fairies
A History of Queer Communities and People in Western Canada, 1930-1985
Häftad, 2018
484 kr
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Prairie Fairies draws upon a wealth of oral, archival, and cultural histories to recover the experiences of queer urban and rural people in the prairies. Focusing on five major urban centres, Winnipeg, Saskatoon, Regina, Edmonton, and Calgary, Prairie Fairies explores the regional experiences and …
Cartographies of Violence
Japanese Canadian Women, Memory, and the Subjects of the Internment
Av Mona Oikawa
Häftad, 2012
513 kr
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In 1942, the federal government expelled more than 22,000 Japanese Canadians from their homes in British Columbia. From 1942 to 1949, they were dispossessed, sent to incarceration sites, and dispersed across Canada. Over 4,000 were deported to Japan. Cartographies of Violence analyses the effects …
Breadwinning Daughters
Young Working Women in a Depression-Era City, 1929-1939
Häftad, 2010
368 kr
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As one of the most difficult periods of the twentieth century, the Great Depression left few Canadians untouched. Using more than eighty interviews with women who lived and worked in Toronto in the 1930s, Breadwinning Daughters examines the consequences of these years for women in their homes and …
Viking Immigrants
Icelandic North Americans
Av L.K. Bertram
Häftad, 2020
382 kr
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A Viking statue, a coffee pot, a ghost story, and a controversial cake: What can the things that immigrants treasured tell us about their history? Between 1870 and 1914 almost one-quarter of Iceland’s population migrated to North America, forming enclaves in both the United States and Canada. This …
Contesting Bodies and Nation in Canadian History
Av Patrizia Gentile, Jane Nicholas
Häftad, 2013
454 kr
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From fur coats to nude paintings, and from sports to beauty contests, the body has been central to the literal and figurative fashioning of ourselves as individuals and as a nation. In this first collection on the history of the body in Canada, an interdisciplinary group of scholars explores the …
