Engendering The State : : Family, Work, and Welfare in Canada / / Nancy Christie.
In the early part of this century the mother was the educator and moral centre of the Canadian household. Between the onset of the First World War and the development of the modern social security state in the 1940s, however, an ideological shift took place. While Canada endured the effects of two w...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2017] ©2000 |
| Year of Publication: | 2017 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction: The Cultural Context of the Canadian Welfare State
- 1 The Evangelical Morphology of the State and the Redefinition of the Patriarchal Family
- 2 'While the Breadwinners Are at War': Gender and Social Policy, 1914-1918
- 3 'A Peaceful Evolution of Industrial Citizenship': Maternalism, National Efficiency, and the Movement for Mothers' Allowances
- 4 Mothers' Allowances and the Regulation of the Family Economy
- 5 Dismantling the Maternalist State: Labour, Social Work, and Social Catholicism Debate Family Policy, 1926-1930
- 6 'Not Only a Living Wage, but a Family Wage': The Great Depression and the Subversion of the Maternalist State
- 7 Reconstructing Families: Family Allowances and the Politics of Postwar Abundance
- Conclusion: 'The Endangered Family'
- Notes
- Primary Sources
- Index