Making the best of it : women and girls of Canada and Newfoundland during the Second World War / edited by Sarah Glassford and Amy Shaw.
"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...
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| Language: | English |
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Vancouver ; Toronto :
UBC Press,
[2020]
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| Series: | Studies in Canadian military history.
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Table of 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.