Household Politics : Montreal Families and Postwar Reconstruction /
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, and...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Buffalo [New York] :
University of Toronto Press,
[2005]
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| Series: | Studies in gender and history ;
27 |
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
| Summary: | 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, and a reasonable cost of living. In Household Politics, Magda Fahrni examines postwar reconstruction from a variety of angles in order to fully convey its significance in the 1940s as differences of class, gender, language, religion, and region naturally produced differing perspectives.Reconstruction was not simply a matter of official policy. Although the government set many of the parameters for public debate, federal projects did not inspire a postwar consensus, and families alternatively embraced, negotiated, or opposed government plans. Through in-depth research from a wide variety of sources, Fahrni brings together family history, social history, and political history to look at a wide variety of Montreal families - French-speaking and English-speaking; Catholic, Protestant, and Jewish - making Household Politics a particularly unique and erudite study. |
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| Item Description: | Based on the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--York University. Project MUSE Universal EBA Ebooks |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (350 pages): illustrations. |
| ISBN: | 9781442627451 144262745X |
