Roughing it in the Suburbs

Roughing it in the Suburbs
Author: Valerie J. Korinek
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 486
Release: 2000-01-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780802080417


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Korinek shows that rather than promoting domestic perfection, Chatelaine did not cling to the stereotypes of the era, but instead forged ahead, providing women with a variety of images, ideas, and critiques of women's role in society.


Roughing it in the Suburbs
Language: en
Pages: 486
Authors: Valerie J. Korinek
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2000-01-01 - Publisher: University of Toronto Press

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Korinek shows that rather than promoting domestic perfection, Chatelaine did not cling to the stereotypes of the era, but instead forged ahead, providing women
Fighting Fat
Language: en
Pages: 450
Authors: Wendy Mitchinson
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-10-11 - Publisher: University of Toronto Press

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While the statistics for obesity have been alarming in the twenty-first century, concern about fatness has a history. In Fighting Fat, Wendy Mitchinson discusse
Gender, Health, and Popular Culture
Language: en
Pages: 330
Authors: Cheryl Krasnick Warsh
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-07-07 - Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press

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Health is a gendered concept in Western cultures. Customarily it is associated with strength in men and beauty in women. This gendered concept was transmitted t
Sisters Or Strangers
Language: en
Pages: 442
Authors: Franca Iacovetta
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004-01-01 - Publisher: University of Toronto Press

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Spanning two hundred years of history from the nineteenth century to the 1990s, Sisters or Strangers? explores the complex lives of immigrant, ethnic, and racia
Gatekeepers
Language: en
Pages: 491
Authors: Franca Iacovetta
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006-10-01 - Publisher: Between the Lines

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An in-depth study of European immigrants to Canada during the Cold War, Gatekeepers explores the interactions among these immigrants and the “gatekeepers”�