Mothers of the municipality : women, work and social policy in post-1945 Halifax /
edited by Judith Fingard and Janet Guildford.
- Toronto, Ontario : University of Toronto Press, (c)2005.
- 1 online resource : illustrations
Includes bibliographies and index.
Introduction / Women's organizations: the heart and soul of women's activism / The end of the Poor Law: public welfare reform in Nova Scotia before the Canada Assistance Plan / Democracy, dollars and the children's aid society: the eclipse of Gwendolen Lantz / Managing the unmarried mother "problem": Halifax maternity homes / The 'Right Kind' of single mothers: Nova Scotia's regulation of women on social assistance, 1956-1977 / From infant homes to daycare; child care in Halifax / Black women at work; race, family, and community in greater Halifax / 'Home nursing has continued to present problems ... ' The St. John Ambulance home nursing program in Nova Scotia / 'A grandly subversive time': the Halifax branch of the Voice of Women in the 1960s / A fragile independence: the Nova Scotia advisory council on the status of women / Judith Fingard and Janet Guildford -- Judith Fingard -- Janet Guildford -- Shirley Tillotson -- Suzanne Morton -- Jeanne Fay -- Suzanne Morton -- Wanda Thomas Bernard and Judith Fingard -- Frances Gregor -- Frances Early -- 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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Women in community organization--History--Nova Scotia--Halifax--20th century. Women volunteers--History--Nova Scotia--Halifax--20th century.