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Pick one intelligent girl : employability, domesticity, and the gendering of Canada's welfare state, 1939-1947 / Jennifer A. Stephen.
LIBRA HD6099 .S76 2007
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Stephen, Jennifer Anne, 1959-
- Series:
- Studies in gender and history
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women--Employment--Government policy--Canada--History--20th century.
- Women.
- Welfare state--Canada.
- Welfare state.
- Sex discrimination in employment--Canada.
- Sex discrimination in employment.
- Social conditions.
- Women--Employment--Government policy.
- History.
- Women--Employment.
- Canada.
- Women--Canada--Social conditions--20th century.
- World War, 1939-1945--Women--Canada.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- World War, 1939-1945--War work--Canada.
- Physical Description:
- x, 299 pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, [2007]
- Contents:
- 1 'I Want You to Pick One Intelligent Girl': Mobilizing Canada's Womanpower 18
- 2 The National Selective Service Women's Division and the Management of Women War Workers 38
- 3 The Psychologist at War: Assessing and Recruiting for the Canadian Women's Army Corps 66
- 4 Preparing for the Peace: The Demobilization of Women Workers 99
- 5 'An Aptitude Test Is in Your Best Interest': Canada's Employment Charter for Women Veterans 129
- 6 The Return to Domesticity: Canada's Womanhood in Training 163.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [267]-292) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780802091468
- 0802091466
- 9780802094216
- 080209421X
- OCLC:
- 81601252
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