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Community, Diversity, and Dissent, 1945-75
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Magda Fahrni
Robert Rutherdale
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$90.00 Hardcover
Release Date: 11/21/2007
ISBN: 9780774813846
$32.95 Paperback
Release Date: 7/1/2008
ISBN: 9780774813853
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About the Book
Postwar Canada was far more complex than the well-worn stereotypes of Cold War conformity and 1960s rebellion suggest. Various parts of the country experienced nationalist awakenings; a baby boom was accompanied by increased immigration and an expanding labour force; women were demanding access to birth control; and Canada was rethinking its relationship with the United States.
Creating Postwar Canada: Community, Diversity, and Dissent showcases new research on this period, exploring postwar Canada’s diverse symbols and battlegrounds. Contributors to the first half of the collection consider evolving definitions of the nation in Quebec, Acadian New Brunswick, and English Canada. They examine the ways in which Canada was reimagined to include both the Canadian North and landscapes structured by trade and commerce. The essays that make up the latter half of the anthology analyze debates on shopping hours, professional striptease, the “provider” role of fathers, interracial adoption, sexuality on campus, and illegal drug use, issues that shaped how the country defined itself in sociocultural and political terms.
This collection sheds light on an underexamined era in Canadian history. It also contributes to the historiography of nationalism, gender and the family, consumer cultures, and countercultures. It will appeal to historians, students, and readers interested in postwar Canada and the history of Canadian identity and culture.
About the Author(s)
Magda Fahrni is a member of the Department of History at the Université du Québec à Montréal. Robert Rutherdale is a member of the Department of History and Philosophy at Algoma University College, Laurentian University.
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Magda Fahrni and Robert Rutherdale
Part 1: Imagining Postwar Communities
1) Constructing the "Eskimo" Wife: White Women’s Travel Writing, Colonialism, and the Canadian North, 1940-60 / Joan Sangster
2) The Intellectual Origins of the October Crisis / Éric Bédard
3) Acadian New Brunswick’s Ambivalent Leap into the Canadian Liberal Order / Joel Belliveau
4) The "Narcissism of Small Differences": The Invention of Canadian English, 1951-67 / Steven High
5) From Liberalism to Nationalism: Peter C. Newman’s Discovery of Canada / Robert Wright
6) Multilateralism, Nationalism, and Bilateral Free Trade: Competing Visions of Canadian Economic and Trade Policy, 1945-70 / Dimitry Anastakis
7) Selling by the Carload: The Early Years of Fast Food in Canada / Steve Penfold
Part 2: Diversity and Dissent
8) Leisure, Consumption, and the Public Sphere: Postwar Debates over Shopping Regulations in Vancouver and Victoria during the Cold War / Michael Dawson
9) Men Behind the Marquee: Greasing the Wheels of Vansterdam’s Professional Striptease Scene, 1950-75 / Becki Ross
10) New "Faces" for Fathers: Memory, Life-Writing, and Fathers as Providers in the Postwar Consumer Era / Robert Rutherdale
11) "We Adopted a Negro": Interracial Adoption and the Hybrid Baby in 1960s Canada / Karen Dubinsky
12) "Chastity Outmoded!" The Ubyssey, Sex, and the Single Girl, 1960-70 / Christabelle Sethna
13) Law versus Medicine: The Debate over Drug Use in the 1960s / Marcel Martel
Contributors
Index
Reviews
“Creating Postwar Canada makes an important contribution to the historiography of postwar Canada. Using local and regional histories to reveal political, cultural, and social changes, the collection's strength is its use of case studies to trace broader ideological and political shifts. The collection will be critical to scholars seeking to understand important shifts that took place in postwar Canada.” – Meaghan Beaton (Trent University), Canadian Historical Review, vol. 90, no. 3 (Sept. 2009)
“Peu de synthèses ont déjà été faites dans ce domaine [d’histoire sociale] en comparaison des publications sur l’histoire économique de cette période. Les attentes sont donc grandes face à ce livre qui regroupe une bonne partie des meilleurs spécialistes dans le domaine. ... L'objectif de départ est atteint, le lecteur est bombardé d'exemples et d'analyses précises sur la quête des Canadiens (ou certains Canadiens) d'une nouvelle société, de nouvelles idéologies, mais aussi de la difficile décision de laisser derrière soi : capitalisme, moralité chrétienne, rôle familial traditionnel et normativité sécurisante. ... Un livre donc stimulant, à inscrire dans tous les plans de cours.” – Magali Deleuze (Département d'histoire, Collège militaire royal du Canada), Revue d'histoire de l'amérique française, vol. 62, no. 2 (automne 2008)
“Few publications exist that offer a social history of the postwar years in Canada, in comparison with the economic histories of this period. Expectations are therefore high for this book that brings together most of the experts in the field ... The book’s primary objective is attained: readers are bombarded with examples and specific analyses of the quest of Canadians (or of certain Canadians) for a new society, new ideologies, but also of the difficult decision to leave behind them capitalism, Christian morality, traditional family roles, and the security of normative prescriptions ... It is a stimulating book that should be on every course syllabus.” – Magali Deleuze (Department of history, Royal Military College of Canada), Revue d'histoire de l'amérique française, vol. 62, no. 2 (fall 2008)
Sample Chapter
Front Matter and Chapter One
Related Topics
History > Canada
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