Household politics : Montreal families and postwar reconstruction /
Montreal families and postwar reconstruction.
Magda Fahrni.
- [desLibris e-book.
- Toronto [Ontario] ; Buffalo [New York] : University of Toronto Press, (c)2005. Ottawa, Ontario : Canadian Electronic Library, (c)2015.
- 1 online resource (xii, 279 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations.
- Studies in gender and history ; 27 .
Based on the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--York University.
Includes bibliographies and index.
Introduction -- Summer 1945 -- A web of welfare: the mixed social economy of postwar Montreal -- 'Pour que bientôt il me revienne': sustaining soldiers, veterans, and their families -- Commemorating the cent-mariés: marriage and public memory -- A politics of prices: married women and economic citizenship -- In the streets: fatherhood and public protest -- Conclusion: city unique?