Mothers of the municipality : women, work and social policy in post-1945 Halifax /
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.
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Toronto, Ontario :
University of Toronto Press,
2005.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.