Consuming Modernity

A fascinating look at the making of the thoroughly modern Canadian woman and her international counterparts.

Cheryl Krasnick Warsh is a professor of history at Vancouver Island University. Dan Malleck is an associate professor in Community Health Sciences at Brock University. He is the author of Try to Control Yourself: The Regulation of Post-Prohibition Drinking in Ontario, 1927-44 (UBC Press, 2012).

Contributors: Devon Hansen Atchison, Denyse Baillargeon, Donica Belisle, Susanne Eineigel, Kristin Hall, Tracy Penny Light, Bettina Liverant, Marilyn Morgan, Jane Nicholas, De Anna J. Reese, Kara Ritzheimer, Fiona Skillen, Cecilia Tossounian.

Linda Kealey, Associate Professor of History, University of New Brunswick:
Consuming Modernity is a substantive and thought-provoking contribution to Canadian social, gender, and women’s history.