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Engendering The State : Family, Work, and Welfare in Canada /

"The author's explanation of gender's role in the conception of modern Canadian welfare policy takes current scholarship into novel territory. Her analyses of the perspectives of maternal feminists, clergymen, organized labour, businessmen, university social scientists, welfare admini...

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Autor principal: Christie, Nancy, 1958-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, 2000.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • The evangelical morphology of the state and redefinition of the patriarchal family
  • 'While the breadwinners are at war': gender and social policy, 1914-1918
  • 'A peaceful evolution of industrial citizenship': maternalism, national efficiency, and the movement for Mothers' allowances
  • Mother's allowances and the regulation of the family economy
  • Dismantling the Maternalist state: labour, social work, and Social Catholicism debate family policy, 1926-1930
  • 'Not only a living wage, but a family wage': the Great Depression and the subversion of the Maternalist state
  • Reconstructing families: family allowances and the politics of postwar abundance.