A Question of Commitment

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Childhood and Family in Canada
• A Question of Commitment assesses the extent to which children's rights have been incorporated into Canadian policy and law twenty years after UN Conv... Lees meer

A Brief History of Women in Quebec

Baillargeon

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Childhood and Family in Canada | nr. 20
• A Brief History of Women in Quebec examines the historical experience of women of different social classes and origins (geographic, ethnic, and racial... Lees meer

Growing Up in Armyville

Deborah Harrison, Patrizia Albanese

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Childhood and Family in Canada
• It was 2006, and eight hundred soldiers from the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) base in pseudonymous "Armyville," Canada, were scheduled to deploy to Kan... Lees meer

Abuse or Punishment?

Marie-Aimée Cliche

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Childhood and Family in Canada
• 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 b... Lees meer

Evangelical Balance Sheet

B Anne Wood

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Childhood and Family in Canada | nr. 10
• Using the journals of W. Norman Rudolf (1835-1886), a Victorian merchant, Evangelical Balance Sheet: Character, Family, and Business in Mid-Victorian ... Lees meer

The One Best Way?

Tasnim Nathoo, Ostry

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Childhood and Family in Canada
• In recent years, breastfeeding has been prominently in the public eye in relation to debates on issues ranging from parental leave policies, work-fami... Lees meer

The Dominion of Youth

Cynthia Comacchio

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Childhood and Family in Canada
• Adolescence, like childhood, is more than a biologically defined life stage: it is also a sociohistorical construction. The meaning and experience of ... Lees meer

Ontario Boys

Christopher J Greig

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Childhood and Family in Canada | nr. 19
• Ontario Boys explores the preoccupation with boyhood in Ontario during the immediate postwar period, 1945-1960. It argues that a traditional version o... Lees meer

With Children and Youth. Emerging Theories and Practices in Child and Youth Care Work

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Childhood and Family in Canada | nr. 21
• With Children and Youth provides a snapshot of emerging theories and perspectives in the field of child and youth care across North America. Well-know... Lees meer

Girls, Texts, Cultures

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Childhood and Family in Canada | nr. 23
• This book focuses on girls and girlhoods, texts for and about girls, and the cultural contexts that shape girls' experience. It brings together schola... Lees meer

Cold War Comforts

Tarah Brookfield

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Childhood and Family in Canada | nr. 18
• 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... Lees meer

Fostering Nation?

Veronica Strong-Boag

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Childhood and Family in Canada
• Fostering Nation? Canada Confronts Its History of Childhood Disadvantage explores the missteps and the promise of a century and more of child protecti... Lees meer

Engendering Transnational Voices

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Childhood and Family in Canada
• Engendering Transnational Voices examines the transnational practices and identities of immigrant women, youth, and children in an era of global migra... Lees meer

Home Words

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Childhood and Family in Canada | nr. 13
• 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 colle... Lees meer

Taking Responsibility for Children

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Childhood and Family in Canada
• 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 answe... Lees meer

Babies for the Nation

Baillargeon

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Childhood and Family in Canada
• Described by some as a "necropolis for babies," the province of Quebec in the early twentieth century recorded infant mortality rates, particularly am... Lees meer

Evangelical Balance Sheet

B Anne Wood

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Childhood and Family in Canada | nr. 10
• Using the journals of W. Norman Rudolf (1835-1886), a Victorian merchant, Evangelical Balance Sheet: Character, Family, and Business in Mid-Victorian ... Lees meer

Making Do

Baillargeon

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Childhood and Family in Canada | nr. 1
• Life in the Great Depression -- long lines of unemployed, soup kitchens, men riding the rails, public works projects -- these are the graphic images o... Lees meer

Home Words

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Childhood and Family in Canada | nr. 13
• 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 colle... Lees meer

Freedom to Play

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Childhood and Family in Canada
• "When we were children we made our own fun" is a frequent comment from those who were children in pre-television times. But what games, activities and... Lees meer

Depicting Canadaas Children

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Childhood and Family in Canada
• Depicting Canada's Children is a critical analysis of the visual representation of Canadian children from the seventeenth century to the present. Reco... Lees meer

The Social Origins of the Welfare State

Dominique Marshall

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Childhood and Family in Canada
• The Social Origins of the Welfare State traces the evolution of the first universal laws for Québec families, passed during the Second World War. In t... Lees meer

Something to Cry about

Susan M Turner

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Childhood and Family in Canada | nr. 6
• 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 i... Lees meer

Boom Kids

James A Onusko

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Childhood and Family in Canada
• 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 familie... Lees meer