Radical Housewives: Price Wars and Food Politics in Mid-Twentieth-Century Canada

✍ Scribed by Julie Guard

Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Year: 2019
Tongue: English
Leaves: 311
Series: Studies in Gender and History
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Radical Housewives is a history of the Canada’s Housewives Consumers Association. Julie Guard reinterprets the view of postwar Canada as economically prosperous and reveals the left’s role in the origins of the food security movement.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Price War: Housewives Organize in the Great Depression
2. Housewife-Patriots and Wartime Price Controls
3. Fighting for the Working Class: The Struggle for Postwar Price Controls
4. Mothers, Breadwinners, and Citizens
5. Citizen Consumers or Kitchen Communists?
6. “Reds,” Housewives, and the Cold War
Notes
Index

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