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Pick one intelligent girl : employability, domesticity, and the gendering of Canada's welfare state, 1939-1947 /

"During the tumultuous formative years of the Canadian welfare state, many women rose through the ranks of the federal civil service to oversee the massive recruitment of Canadian women to aid in the Second World War. Ironically, it became the task of these same female mandarins to encourage wo...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Stephen, Jennifer Anne, 1959-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, ©2007.
Colección:Studies in gender and history.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 'I want you to pick one intelligent girl': Mobilizing Canada's womanpower
  • The national selective service women's division and the management of women war workers
  • The psychologist at war: Assessing and recruiting for the Canadian women's army corps
  • Preparing for the peace: The demobilization of women workers
  • 'An aptitude test is in your best interest': Canada's employment charter for women veterans
  • The return to domesticity: Canada's womanhood in training.