For Home, Country, and Race

Stephen J Heathorn

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Gender and History
• The crucial role of compulsory schooling in the fostering of national identities is dynamically demonstrated in Stephen Heathorn's study of the elemen... Lees meer

Breadwinning Daughters

Katrina Srigley

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Gender and History
• As one of the most difficult periods of the twentieth century, the Great Depression left few Canadians untouched. Using more than eighty interviews wi... Lees meer

Radical Housewives

Julie Guard

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Gender and History
• Radical Housewives is a history of Canada's Housewives Consumers Association. This association was a community-based women's organization with ties to... Lees meer

Constance Maynard's Passions

Pauline A Phipps

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Gender and History
• Successful but self-tormented, English educational pioneer Constance Maynard (1849-1935) was a deeply religious evangelical Christian whose personal a... Lees meer

Moving Beyond Borders

Karen Flynn

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Gender and History
• Moving Beyond Borders is the first book-length history of Black health care workers in Canada, delving into the experiences of thirty-five postwar-era... Lees meer

Perogies and Politics

Rhonda L Hinther

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Gender and History
• In Perogies and Politics , Rhonda Hinther explores the twentieth-century history of the Ukrainian left in Canada from the standpoint of the women, men... Lees meer

Purchasing Power

Donica Belisle

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Gender and History
• Exploring the roots of Canadian consumer culture between the 1890s and the Second World War, Purchasing Power uncovers the meanings that Canadians hav... Lees meer

Caught

Tamara Myers

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Gender and History
• 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 ... Lees meer

The Traffic in Babies

Karen Balcom

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Gender and History
• Between 1930 and the mid-1970s, several thousand Canadian-born children were adopted by families in the United States. At times, adopting across the b... Lees meer

The Modern Girl

Jane Nicholas

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Gender and History
• With her short skirt, bobbed hair, and penchant for smoking, drinking, dancing, and jazz, the "Modern Girl" was a fixture of 1920s Canadian consumer c... Lees meer

Household Politics

Magda Fahrni

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Gender and History
• 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 famil... Lees meer

Giving Birth in Canada, 1900-1950

Wendy Mitchinson

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Gender and History | nr. 19
• In Giving Birth in Canada , the first historical study of childbirth in Canada, Wendy Mitchinson has written a fascinating account of childbirth ritua... Lees meer

Sex and the Married Girl

Heather Stanley

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Gender and History
• Sex - who was having it, who shouldn't have it, and who was supposed to be having it but wasn't - was a major concern to social authorities in the imm... Lees meer

Pick One Intelligent Girl

Jennifer Anne Stephen

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Gender and History
• During the tumultuous formative years of the Canadian welfare state, many women rose through the ranks of the federal civil service to oversee the mas... Lees meer

Breadwinning Daughters

Katrina Srigley

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Gender and History
• As one of the most difficult periods of the twentieth century, the Great Depression left few Canadians untouched. Using more than eighty interviews wi... Lees meer

Women Without Men

Marlene Epp

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Gender and History
• Marlene Epp, who has written extensively on Mennonite history, presents here the story of thousands of Soviet Mennonite women who, having lost their h... Lees meer

Women, Gender, and Transnational Lives

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Gender and History
• 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 tran... Lees meer

Sit Down and Drink Your Beer

Robert A Campbell

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Gender and History
• When public drinking returned to much of Canada with the end of Prohibition, former hotel saloons were transformed into closely regulated beer parlour... Lees meer

Widows in White

Linda Reeder

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Gender and History | nr. 22
• 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 le... Lees meer

Pick One Intelligent Girl

Jennifer Anne Stephen

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Gender and History | nr. 29
• During the tumultuous formative years of the Canadian welfare state, many women rose through the ranks of the federal civil service to oversee the mas... Lees meer

Giving Birth in Canada, 1900-1950

Wendy Mitchinson

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Gender and History | nr. 19
• In Giving Birth in Canada , the first historical study of childbirth in Canada, Wendy Mitchinson has written a fascinating account of childbirth ritua... Lees meer

Revivals and Roller Rinks

Lynne Marks

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Gender and History | nr. 5
• In this examination of the social and cultural meanings of religion and leisure in nineteenth-century small-town Ontario, Lynne Marks looks inside chu... Lees meer

Wisdom, Justice and Charity

Suzanne Morton

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Gender and History
• One of Canada's first social workers, Jane B. Wisdom had an active career in social welfare that spanned almost the first half of the twentieth centur... Lees meer

Toronto's Girl Problem

Carolyn Strange

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Gender and History | nr. 3
• With the turn of the century came increased industrialization and urbanization, and in Toronto one of the most visible results of this modernization w... Lees meer