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

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

Cartographies of Violence

Mona Oikawa

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Gender and History
• In 1942, the federal government expelled more than 22,000 Japanese Canadians from their homes in British Columbia. From 1942 to 1949, they were dispos... Lees meer

Agents of Empire

Lisa Chilton

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Gender and History
• Agents of Empire highlights the aims and methods behind the emigrators' work, as well as the implications and ramifications of their long-term engagem... Lees meer

Radical Housewives

Julie Guard

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Gender and History
• Radical Housewives is a history of the Canada's Housewives Consumers Association. Julie Guard reinterprets the view of postwar Canada as economically ... Lees meer

Before Official Multiculturalism

Franca Iacovetta

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Gender and History
• Renowned author Franca Iacovetta provides a new perspective on multiculturalism by examining the hopes and challenges of women activists associated wi... Lees meer

Sit Down and Drink Your Beer

Robert A Campbell

• Paperback | 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

Sex and the Married Girl

Heather Stanley

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Gender and History
• This book examines how embodied, heterosexual, married sexual experiences were constructed for, and by, Canadian women in the postwar era. Lees meer

Contesting Bodies and Nation in Canadian History

Patrizia Gentile, Jane Nicholas

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

Household Politics

Magda Fahrni

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Gender and History
• he 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 famili... 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

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

Agents of Empire

Lisa Chilton

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

Roughing It in the Suburbs

Valerie Korinek

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Gender and History | nr. 16
• Originally launched in 1928, by the 1950s and 1960s nearly two million readers every month sampled "Chatelaine" magazine's eclectic mixture of traditi... Lees meer

Contesting Bodies and Nation in Canadian History

Patrizia Gentile, Jane Nicholas

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

On the Edge of Empire

Adele Perry

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

Prairie Fairies

Valerie J Korinek

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Gender and History
• Prairie Fairies draws upon a wealth of oral, archival and cultural histories to recover the experiences of queer urban and rural people in the Canadia... Lees meer

Household Politics

Magda Fahrni

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Gender and History
• Through in-depth research from a wide variety of sources, Fahrni brings together family history, social history, and political history to look at a wi... 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

Roughing It in the Suburbs

Valerie Korinek

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Gender and History | nr. 16
• Originally launched in 1928, by the 1950s and 1960s nearly two million readers every month sampled "Chatelaine" magazine's eclectic mixture of traditi... Lees meer

Sex and the Married Girl

Heather Stanley

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Gender and History
• This book examines how embodied, heterosexual, married sexual experiences were constructed for, and by, Canadian women in the postwar era. Lees meer

Viola Florence Barnes, 1885-1979

John Reid

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

Strangers in Our Midst

Elise Chenier

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Gender and History
• Contemporary efforts to treat sex offenders are rooted in the post-Second World War era, in which an unshakable faith in science convinced many Canadi... Lees meer

Women Without Men

Marlene Epp

• Paperback | 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