Mothers of the municipality : women, work and social policy in post-1945 Halifax /

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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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Fingard, Judith (Editor ), Guildford, Janet Vey (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto, Ontario : University of Toronto Press, 2005.
Temas:
1900-1999
Women in community organization > Nova Scotia > Halifax > History > 20th century.
Women volunteers > Nova Scotia > Halifax > History > 20th century.
Femmes dans l'organisation communautaire > Nouvelle-Écosse > Halifax > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Femmes bénévoles > Nouvelle-Écosse > Halifax > Histoire > 20e siècle.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Security.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Services & Welfare.
Social policy.
Women in community organization.
Women volunteers.
Halifax (N.S.) > Social policy.
Nova Scotia > Halifax.
History.
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.

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