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Mothers of the Municipality
Women, Work, and Social Policy in Post-1945 Halifax
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Edited by:
Judith Fingard
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English
Published/Copyright:
2004
About this book
Mothers of the Municipality explores women's activism and the provision of services at the community level. If the adage "think globally; act locally" has any application in modern history, it is with the women who fought many of the battles in the larger war for social justice.
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Fingard Judith :
Judith Fingard is an adjunct professor in the Department of History at Dalhousie University.
Guildford Janet :Janet Guildford is an assistant professor in the Department of History at Mount Saint Vincent University.
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Frontmatter
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Contents
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Acknowledgments
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Introduction
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Women’s Organizations: The Heart and Soul of Women’s Activism
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The End of the Poor Law: Public Welfare Reform in Nova Scotia before the Canada Assistance Plan
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Democracy, Dollars, and the Children’s Aid Society: The Eclipse of Gwendolen Lantz
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Managing the Unmarried Mother ‘Problem’: Halifax Maternity Homes
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The ‘Right Kind’ of Single Mothers: Nova Scotia’s Regulation of Women on Social Assistance, 1956–1977
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From Infant Homes to Daycare: Child Care in Halifax
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Black Women at Work: Race, Family, and Community in Greater Halifax
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‘Home Nursing Has Continued to Present Problems ...’ The St John Ambulance Home Nursing Program in Nova Scotia
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‘A Grandly Subversive Time’: The Halifax Branch of the Voice of Women in the 1960s
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A Fragile Independence: The Nova Scotia Advisory Council on the Status of Women
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Contributors
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Illustration Credits
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Index
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eBook published on:
December 15, 2005
eBook ISBN:
9781442627468
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320
eBook ISBN:
9781442627468
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College/higher education;Professional and scholarly;
