TY  - BOOK
AU  - Fingard,Judith
AU  - Guildford,Janet Vey
TI  - Mothers of the municipality: women, work and social policy in post-1945 Halifax 
SN  - 9781442627468
AV  - HQ1460 .M684 2005
PY  - 2005///
CY  - Toronto, Ontario
PB  - University of Toronto Press
KW  - Women in community organization
KW  - Nova Scotia
KW  - Halifax
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Women volunteers
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; 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; 2; b
N2  - 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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