Home, Work, and Play: Situating Canadian Social History, 1840-1980
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Home, Work, and Play: Situating Canadian Social History, 1840-1980Entry/Object ID
2012.056.002Tags
Canadian History, Social History, Immigration, Indigenous History, Women's HistoryScope and Content
Book containing a compilation of academic papers pertaining to the social history of Canada, specifically covering the years 1840-1980.Context
The book contains a total of 22 academic papers discussing various aspects of social history in Canada. The topics covered include: women's history, domesticity, home life, gender roles, sexuality, Indigenous history, classism, race, among others. The book is broken down into three parts. They are as follows: Part 1: At Home - "Female Regulations of the Healthy Home" by Annmarie Adams - "Living on Display: Colonial Visions of Aboriginal Domestic Spaces" by Paige Raibmon - "Re-Imagining the Moral Order of Urban Space: Religion and Photography in Winnipeg, 1900-1914" by James Opp - "Negotiating Sex and Gender in the Ukrainian Bloc Settlement: East-Central Alberta between the Wars" by Frances Swyripa - "Indispensable But Not a Citizen: The Housewife in the Great Depression" by Denyese Baillargeon - "What Makes Washday Less Blue? Gender, Nation, and Technology Choice in Post-war Canada" by Joy Parr - "Finding a Place for Father: Selling the Barbecue in Post-war Canada" by Chris Dummitt Part 2: At Work: - "Reciprocal Work Bees and the Meaning of Neighbourhood" by Catharine Anne Wilson - "The Shantymen" by Ian Radforth - "Boys in the Mining Community" by Robert McIntosh - "'The Case of the Kissing Nurse': Femininity, Sexuality, and Canadian Nursing, 1900-1970" by Kathryn McPherson - "Privilege and Oppression: The Configuration of Race, Gender, and Class in Southern Ontario Auto Plants, 1939 to 1949" by Pamela Sugiman - "A Platform for Gender Tensions: Women Working and Riding on Canadian Urban Public Transit in the 1940s" by Donald E. Davis and Barbara Lorenzkowski - "Back to the Garden: Redesigning the Factory for a Post-Industrial Era" by Steven High Part 3: At Play: - "Lacrosse: Idealized Middle-Class Sport for Youth" by Nancy Bouchier - "'Care, Control, and Supervision': Native People in the Canadian Atlantic Salmon Fishery, 1867-1900" by Bill Parenteau - "Not Merely for the Sale of an Evenings' Entertainment: The Educational Uses of Theatre in Toronto's Settlement Houses, 1910-1930" by Cathy L. James - "Celebrating Violent Masculinities: The Boxing Death of Luther McCarty" by Kevin B. Wansley and David Whitson - "Trying Again: Regulating Booze in Canada after Prohibition" by Craig Heron - "A Man's Cry: Montreal, Gambling, and Male Space in the 1940s" by Suzanne Morton - "Manipulating Innocence: Corruptibility, Youth, and the Case Against Obscenity" by Mary Louise Adams - "Honky-Tonk City: Niagara and the Post-war Travel Boom" by Karen DubinskyCollection
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