Making and Breaking the Rules : : Women in Quebec, 1919-1939 / / Andree Levesque.
During the interwar period, Quebec was a strongly patriarchal society, where men in the Church, politics, and medicine, maintained a traditional norm of social and sexual standards that women were expected to abide by. Some women in the media and religious communities were complicit with this vision...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016] ©1994 |
Year of Publication: | 2016 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Canadian Social History Series
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (170 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Tables and Figures
- Foreword
- 1. The Norm
- 2. Motherhood
- 3. Sexuality
- 4. "Deviance"
- 5. The Rejection of Motherhood
- 6. Wages of Sin: Unwed Mothers
- 7. Commercial Sex: Prostitution
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Index