Mothers of the municipality : women, work and social policy in post-1945 Halifax / edited by Judith Fingard and Janet Guildford.

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9781442627468

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HQ1460 .M684 2005

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Contents:

Judith Fingard and Janet Guildford -- Women's organizations: the heart and soul of women's activism / Judith Fingard -- The end of the Poor Law: public welfare reform in Nova Scotia before the Canada Assistance Plan / Janet Guildford -- Democracy, dollars and the children's aid society: the eclipse of Gwendolen Lantz / Shirley Tillotson -- Managing the unmarried mother "problem": Halifax maternity homes / Suzanne Morton -- The 'Right Kind' of single mothers: Nova Scotia's regulation of women on social assistance, 1956-1977 / Jeanne Fay -- From infant homes to daycare; child care in Halifax / Suzanne Morton -- Black women at work; race, family, and community in greater Halifax / Wanda Thomas Bernard and Judith Fingard -- 'Home nursing has continued to present problems ... ' The St. John Ambulance home nursing program in Nova Scotia / Frances Gregor -- 'A grandly subversive time': the Halifax branch of the Voice of Women in the 1960s / Frances Early -- A fragile independence: the Nova Scotia advisory council on the status of women / Janet Guildford.

Subject: Mothers of the Municipality explores women's activism and the provision of services at the community level. If the adage "think globally; act locally" has any application in modern history, it is with the women who fought many of the battles in the larger war for social justice.

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Includes bibliographies and index.

Introduction / Judith Fingard and Janet Guildford -- Women's organizations: the heart and soul of women's activism / Judith Fingard -- The end of the Poor Law: public welfare reform in Nova Scotia before the Canada Assistance Plan / Janet Guildford -- Democracy, dollars and the children's aid society: the eclipse of Gwendolen Lantz / Shirley Tillotson -- Managing the unmarried mother "problem": Halifax maternity homes / Suzanne Morton -- The 'Right Kind' of single mothers: Nova Scotia's regulation of women on social assistance, 1956-1977 / Jeanne Fay -- From infant homes to daycare; child care in Halifax / Suzanne Morton -- Black women at work; race, family, and community in greater Halifax / Wanda Thomas Bernard and Judith Fingard -- 'Home nursing has continued to present problems ... ' The St. John Ambulance home nursing program in Nova Scotia / Frances Gregor -- 'A grandly subversive time': the Halifax branch of the Voice of Women in the 1960s / Frances Early -- A fragile independence: the Nova Scotia advisory council on the status of women / Janet Guildford.

Mothers of the Municipality explores women's activism and the provision of services at the community level. If the adage "think globally; act locally" has any application in modern history, it is with the women who fought many of the battles in the larger war for social justice.

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