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The Infinite Bonds of Family

Domesticity in Canada, 1850-1940

By: Cynthia R. Comacchio

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The Infinite Bonds of Family

Domesticity in Canada, 1850-1940

By: Cynthia R. Comacchio

With this book, Cynthia Comacchio presents the first historical overview of domestic life in Canada, showing how families have both changed and remained the same, through transitions brought about by urbanization, industrialization, and war.

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196

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University of Toronto Press

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ISBN 10

0802079296

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9780802079299

Nations are Built of Babies

Saving Ontario's Mothers and Children, 1900-1940

By: Cynthia R. Comacchio

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Nations are Built of Babies

Saving Ontario's Mothers and Children, 1900-1940

By: Cynthia R. Comacchio

Nations Are Built of Babies" documents a national campaign by Ontario physicians to reduce infant and maternal mortality in the early twentieth century. Armed with a secure faith in science and aided by the increasingly important position of experts in Canadian society, the medical profession tackled the "national tragedy" of infant and maternal mortality by advocating "scientific motherhood." Canadian mothers were believed to be handicapped by an ignorance that could be remedied only through expert tutoring and supervision of child-rearing duties. Working within a Marxist-feminist framework, Cynthia Comacchio demonstrates that the campaign was part of a conscious plan to modernize Canadian families to meet the ideological imperatives of industrial capitalism. Doctors reasoned that if infants could be saved and their physical, mental, and moral health regulated, the benefits in socio-economic terms would more than offset any individual or state investment.

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357

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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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0773563881

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9780773563889

Ring Around the Maple

A Sociocultural History of Children and Childhoods in Canada, 19th and 20th Centuries

By: Cynthia R. Comacchio,Neil Sutherland

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Ring Around the Maple

A Sociocultural History of Children and Childhoods in Canada, 19th and 20th Centuries

By: Cynthia R. Comacchio,Neil Sutherland

Ring Around the Maple is about the condition of children in Canada from roughly 1850 to 2000, a time during which “the modern” increasingly disrupted traditional ways. Authors Cynthia R. Comacchio and Neil Sutherland trace the lives of children over this “long century” with a view to synthesizing the rich interdisciplinary, often multi-disciplinary, literature that has emerged since the 1970s. Integrated into this synthesis is the authors’ new research into many, often seemingly disparate, archival and published primary sources. Emphasizing how “the child” and childhood are sociohistoric constructs, and employing age analytically and relationally, they discuss the constants and the variants in their historic dimensions. While childhood tangibly modernized during these years, it remained a far from universal experience due to identifiers of race, gender, culture, region, and intergenerational adaptations that characterize the process of growing up. This work highlights children’s perspectives through close, critical, “against the grain” readings of diaries, correspondence, memoirs, interviews, oral histories and autobiographies, many buried in obscure archives. It is the only extant historical discussion of Canadian children that interweaves the experiences of First Nations, Métis, and Inuit children with those of children from a number of settler groups. Ring Around the Maple makes use of photographs, catalogues, advertisements, government publications, musical recordings, radio shows, television shows, material goods, documentary and feature films, and other such visual and aural testimony. Much of this evidence has not to date been used as historical testimony to uncover the lives of ordinary children. This book is generously illustrated with photographs and ephemera carefully selected to reflect children’s lives, conditions, interests, and obligations. It will be of special interest to historians and social scientists interested in children and the culture of childhood, but will also appeal to readers who enjoy the "little stories" that together make up our collective history, especially when those are told by the children who lived them.

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707

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Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press

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1771126167

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9781771126168

The Dominion of Youth

Adolescence and the Making of Modern Canada, 1920 to 1950

By: Cynthia Comacchio

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The Dominion of Youth

Adolescence and the Making of Modern Canada, 1920 to 1950

By: Cynthia Comacchio

Adolescence, like childhood, is more than a biologically defined life stage: it is also a sociohistorical construction. The meaning and experience of adolescence are reformulated according to societal needs, evolving scientific precepts, and national aspirations relative to historic conditions. Although adolescence was by no means a “discovery” of the early twentieth century, it did assume an identifiably modern form during the years between the Great War and 1950. The Dominion of Youth: Adolescence and the Making of Modern Canada, 1920 to 1950 captures what it meant for young Canadians to inhabit this liminal stage of life within the context of a young nation caught up in the self-formation and historic transformation that would make modern Canada. Because the young at this time were seen paradoxically as both the hope of the nation and the source of its possible degeneration, new policies and institutions were developed to deal with the “problem of youth.” This history considers how young Canadians made the transition to adulthood during a period that was “developmental”—both for youth and for a nation also working toward individuation. During the years considered here, those who occupied this “dominion” of youth would see their experiences more clearly demarcated by generation and culture than ever before. With this book, Cynthia Comacchio offers the first detailed study of adolescence in early-twentieth-century Canada and demonstrates how young Canadians of the period became the nation’s first modern teenagers.

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667

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Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press

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1554586577

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9781554586578

The Infinite Bonds of Family

Domesticity in Canada, 1850-1940

By: Cynthia R. Comacchio

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The Infinite Bonds of Family

Domesticity in Canada, 1850-1940

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Themes in Canadian Social Hist

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0802009646

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9780802009647

Ring Around the Maple

A Sociocultural History of Children and Childhoods in Canada, 19th and 20th Centuries

By: Cynthia R. Comacchio,Neil Sutherland

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A Sociocultural History of Children and Childhoods in Canada, 19th and 20th Centuries

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Book's by Cynthia R. Comacchio

The Infinite Bonds of Family

The Infinite Bonds of Family

Nations are Built of Babies

Nations are Built of Babies

Ring Around the Maple

Ring Around the Maple

The Dominion of Youth

The Dominion of Youth

The Infinite Bonds of Family

The Infinite Bonds of Family

Ring Around the Maple

Ring Around the Maple

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