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Genre/Form: | Essays |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Sarah Carlene Glassford; Amy J Shaw |
ISBN: | 9780774862776 0774862777 9780774862783 0774862785 |
OCLC Number: | 1196260201 |
Description: | xi, 298 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
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 -- 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 -- 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. |
Series Title: | Studies in Canadian military history. |
Responsibility: | edited by Sarah Glassford and Amy Shaw. |
Abstract:
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 Second World War.
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"[T]his is a very useful study, one in which the authors make full use of British and American research, and the bibliography alone will make it invaluable." -- J.L. Granatstein * CHOICE Connect *
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