| Description |
1 online resource |
| Series |
Studies in Canadian military history |
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Studies in Canadian military history.
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| Contents |
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Community, Memory, and Historical Precedent -- Part 1: Women, Children, and the War -- 1 The Small Spaces of Childhood: Learning How to Feel in Atlantic Canada, 1939-45 -- 2 Fostering Friendships: Canadian Girlhood and the Evacuation of British Children to Canada -- 3 Casualties of War: Children, Mothers, and Wartime Day Nurseries -- 4 Civic Identities in Conflict: Montreal's Anglophone and Francophone Private School Girls -- Part 2: Women and the War at Home -- 5 "A Token Jew Everywhere": Canadian Jewish Women on the Home Front |
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6 Shopping to Win the War: Female Consumers and Canada's Home Front -- 7 Mrs. Consumer Goes to War: The Consumer Branch and Economic Policy Making -- Part 3: Women and Overseas Humanitarian Work -- 8 Responding to "War's Havoc": The Relief Work of Mennonite Women -- 9 "It Keeps Our Spirits Up": Emotional Labour and Resilience in the Canadian Red Cross Corps Overseas Detachment, 1943-47 -- Part 4: Women in Wartime Nursing, Paid War Work, and the Armed Forces -- 10 "War Comes to Labrador": Nursing on the Home Front -- 11 They Died so That Men May Fight: Depictions of Female Military War Dead |
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12 "Keep Your Mind on Your Job": Women Workers, Beauty Culture, and Dangerous Bodies in the Wartime Industrial Workplace -- Conclusion: Making the Best of It -- Selected Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index |
| Summary |
"Many women who lived through the Second World War believed it heralded new status and opportunities, but scholars have argued that very little changed. How can these interpretations be reconciled? Making the Best of It examines the ways in which gender and other identities intersected to shape the experiences of female Canadians and Newfoundlanders during the war. The contributors to this thoughtful collection consider mainstream and minority populations, girls and women, and different parts of Canada and Newfoundland. They reassess topics such as women's presence in the military and in munitions factories, and tackle entirely new subjects such as wartime girlhood in Quebec. Collectively, these essays broaden the scope of what we know about the changes the war wrought, and draw on diverse methodologies to address wider debates about memory, historiography, and feminism. Making the Best of It offers new insights into the impact of the Second World War and lays the foundation for a better understanding of the dramatic alterations that occurred in the lives of women and girls in Canada after the 1940s."-- Provided by publisher |
| Analysis |
HISTORY / Canada / Post-Confederation (1867-) |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 18, 2020) |
| Subject |
World War, 1939-1945 -- Women -- Canada
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Women -- Newfoundland and Labrador
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Women -- Canada -- Social conditions -- 20th century
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Women -- Newfoundland and Labrador -- Social conditions -- 20th century
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HISTORY / Military / World War II.
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Women
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Women -- Social conditions
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Canada
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Newfoundland and Labrador
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Glassford, Sarah Carlene, 1978- editor.
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Shaw, Amy J. (Amy Jeannette), 1972- editor.
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| ISBN |
0774862793 |
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9780774862790 |
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