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| Full Title | Pick One Intelligent Girl Employability, Domesticity and the Gendering of Canada\'s Welfare State, 1939-1947 1st Edition |
|---|---|
| Author(s) | Jennifer Anne Stephen |
| Edition | 1st Edition |
| ISBN | 9781442691285, 9780802094216 |
| Publisher | University of Toronto Press |
| Format | PDF and EPUB |
During the tumultuous formative years of the Canadian welfare state, many women rose through the ranks of the federal civil service to oversee the massive recruitment of Canadian women to aid in the Second World War. Ironically, it became the task of these same female mandarins to encourage women to return to the household once the war was over. Pick One Intelligent Girl reveals the elaborate psychological, economic, and managerial techniques that were used to recruit and train women for wartime military and civilian jobs, and then, at war’s end, to move women out of the labour force altogether.
Negotiating the fluid boundaries of state, community, industry, and household, and drawing on a wide range of primary sources, Jennifer A. Stephen illustrates how women’s relationships to home, work, and nation were profoundly altered during this period. She demonstrates how federal officials enlisted the help of a new generation of ‘experts’ to entrench a two-tiered training and employment system that would become an enduring feature of the Canadian state.
This engaging study not only adds to the debates about the gendered origins of Canada’s welfare state, it also makes an important contribution to Canadian social history, labour and gender studies, sociology, and political science.
Original price was: $49.95.$14.98Current price is: $14.98.
Access Pick One Intelligent Girl Employability, Domesticity and the Gendering of Canada’s Welfare State, 1939-1947 1st Edition Now. Discount up to 90%
| Full Title | Pick One Intelligent Girl Employability, Domesticity and the Gendering of Canada\'s Welfare State, 1939-1947 1st Edition |
|---|---|
| Author(s) | Jennifer Anne Stephen |
| Edition | 1st Edition |
| ISBN | 9781442685659, 9780802094216 |
| Publisher | University of Toronto Press |
| Format | PDF and EPUB |
During the tumultuous formative years of the Canadian welfare state, many women rose through the ranks of the federal civil service to oversee the massive recruitment of Canadian women to aid in the Second World War. Ironically, it became the task of these same female mandarins to encourage women to return to the household once the war was over. Pick One Intelligent Girl reveals the elaborate psychological, economic, and managerial techniques that were used to recruit and train women for wartime military and civilian jobs, and then, at war’s end, to move women out of the labour force altogether.
Negotiating the fluid boundaries of state, community, industry, and household, and drawing on a wide range of primary sources, Jennifer A. Stephen illustrates how women’s relationships to home, work, and nation were profoundly altered during this period. She demonstrates how federal officials enlisted the help of a new generation of ‘experts’ to entrench a two-tiered training and employment system that would become an enduring feature of the Canadian state.
This engaging study not only adds to the debates about the gendered origins of Canada’s welfare state, it also makes an important contribution to Canadian social history, labour and gender studies, sociology, and political science.
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