Making the Best of It

Women and Girls of Canada and Newfoundland During the Second World War

Inbunden, Engelska, 2020

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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 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 in the lives of Canadian women and girls, and address wider debates about memory, historiography, and feminism.

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Utgivningsdatum2020-06-26
Mått152 x 229 x undefined mm
Vikt580 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieStudies in Canadian Military History
Antal sidor310
FörlagUniversity of British Columbia Press
ISBN9780774862776

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Sarah Glassford is a social historian and an archivist in the Leddy Library at the University of Windsor. She is the author of Mobilizing Mercy: A History of the Canadian Red Cross, and coeditor of A Sisterhood of Suffering and Service: Women and Girls of Canada and Newfoundland during the First World War. Amy Shaw is an associate professor in the Department of History at the University of Lethbridge and a research associate with the Laurier Centre for Military, Strategic, and Disarmament Studies. She is the author of Crisis of Conscience: Conscientious Objection in Canada during the First World War and coeditor of A Sisterhood of Suffering and Service: Women and Girls of Canada and Newfoundland during the First World War.Contributors: Graham Broad, Heidi Coombs, Marlene Epp, Claire L. Halstead, Sarah Hogenbirk, Barbara Lorenzkowski, Lisa Moore, Lisa Pasolli, Jennifer Shaw, Joseph Tohill, Sarah Van Vugt

Introduction: Community, Memory, and Historical Precedent / Sarah Glassford and Amy ShawPart 1: Women, Children, and the War1 The Small Spaces of Childhood: Learning How to Feel in Atlantic Canada, 1939–45 / Barbara Lorenzkowski2 Fostering Friendships: Canadian Girlhood and the Evacuation of British Children to Canada / Claire L. Halstead3 Casualties of War: Children, Mothers, and Wartime Day Nurseries / Lisa Pasolli4 Civic Identities in Conflict: Montreal's Anglophone and Francophone Private School Girls / Lisa MoorePart 2: Women and the War at Home5 "A Token Jew Everywhere": Canadian Jewish Women on the Home Front / Jennifer Shaw6 Shopping to Win the War: Female Consumers and Canada's Home Front / Graham Broad7 Mrs. Consumer Goes to War: The Consumer Branch and Economic Policy Making / Joseph TohillPart 3: Women and Overseas Humanitarian Work8 Responding to "War's Havoc": The Relief Work of Mennonite Women / Marlene Epp9 "It Keeps Our Spirits Up": Emotional Labour and Resilience in the Canadian Red Cross Corps Overseas Detachment, 1943–47 / Sarah GlassfordPart 4: Women in Wartime Nursing, Paid War Work, and the Armed Forces10 "War Comes to Labrador": Nursing on the Home Front / Heidi Coombs11 They Died so That Men May Fight: Depictions of Female Military War Dead / Sarah Hogenbirk12 "Keep Your Mind on Your Job": Women Workers, Beauty Culture, and Dangerous Bodies in the Wartime Industrial Workplace / Sarah Van VugtConclusion: Making the Best of It / Sarah Glassford and Amy ShawSelected Bibliography; Index

[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) This collection [of essays] importantly brings our attention to voices and perspectives that have excluded from World War II Canadian history and, in doing so, directs us to think further about areas that remain to be explored. - Carol Acton, University of Waterloo (University of Toronto Quarterly)