Mothers of the municipality : women, work and social policy in post-1945 Halifax / edited by Judith Fingard and Janet Guildford.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fingard, Judith, editor.

Guildford, Janet Vey, editor.

Series:

Heritage

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women in community organization--Nova Scotia--Halifax--History--20th century.

Women in community organization.

Women volunteers in social service--Nova Scotia--Haifax--History--20th century.

Women volunteers in social service.

Halifax (N.S.)--Social policy.

Halifax (N.S.).

Genre:

History.

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (353 p.)

Edition:

2nd ed.

Place of Publication:

Toronto, [Ontario] ; Buffalo, [New York] ; London, [England] : University of Toronto Press, 2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction / Fingard, Judith / Guildford, Janet

Women's Organizations: The Heart and Soul of Women's Activism / Fingard, Judith

The End of the Poor Law: Public Welfare Reform in Nova Scotia before the Canada Assistance Plan / Guildford, Janet

Democracy, Dollars, and the Children's Aid Society: The Eclipse of Gwendolen Lantz / Tillotson, Shirley

Managing the Unmarried Mother 'Problem': Halifax Maternity Homes / Morton, Suzanne

The 'Right Kind' of Single Mothers: Nova Scotia's Regulation of Women on Social Assistance, 1956-1977 / Fay, Jeanne

From Infant Homes to Daycare: Child Care in Halifax / Morton, Suzanne

Black Women at Work: Race, Family, and Community in Greater Halifax / Bernard, Wanda Thomas / Fingard, Judith

'Home Nursing Has Continued to Present Problems ...' The St John Ambulance Home Nursing Program in Nova Scotia / Gregor, Frances

'A Grandly Subversive Time': The Halifax Branch of the Voice of Women in the 1960s / Early, Frances

A Fragile Independence: The Nova Scotia Advisory Council on the Status of Women / Guildford, Janet

Contributors

Illustration Credits

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4426-5823-1

1-4426-2746-8

OCLC:

903421466