The ‘Right Kind’ of Single Mothers: Nova Scotia’s Regulation of Women on Social Assistance, 1956–1977

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction 1
5. Women’s Organizations: The Heart and Soul of Women’s Activism 25
6. The End of the Poor Law: Public Welfare Reform in Nova Scotia before the Canada Assistance Plan 49
7. Democracy, Dollars, and the Children’s Aid Society: The Eclipse of Gwendolen Lantz 76
8. Managing the Unmarried Mother ‘Problem’: Halifax Maternity Homes 110
9. The ‘Right Kind’ of Single Mothers: Nova Scotia’s Regulation of Women on Social Assistance, 1956–1977 141
10. From Infant Homes to Daycare: Child Care in Halifax 169
11. Black Women at Work: Race, Family, and Community in Greater Halifax 189
12. ‘Home Nursing Has Continued to Present Problems ...’ The St John Ambulance Home Nursing Program in Nova Scotia 226
13. ‘A Grandly Subversive Time’: The Halifax Branch of the Voice of Women in the 1960s 253
14. A Fragile Independence: The Nova Scotia Advisory Council on the Status of Women 281
15. Contributors 305
16. Illustration Credits 307
17. Index 309