Creating Postwar Canada
Community, Diversity, and Dissent, 1945-75
Will be published approx. on 1. July 2008
Book
Paperback/Softback
360 pages
978-0-7748-1385-3 (ISBN)
Description
Creating Postwar Canada showcases new research on this complex period, exploring postwar Canada's diverse symbols and battlegrounds. Contributors to the first half of the collection consider evolving definitions of the nation, examining the ways in which Canada was reimagined to include both the Canadian North and landscapes structured by trade and commerce. The essays in the latter half analyze debates on shopping hours, professional striptease, the "provider" role of fathers, interracial adoption, sexuality on campus, and illegal drug use, issues that shaped how the country defined itself in sociocultural and political terms. This collection contributes to the historiography of nationalism, gender and the family, consumer cultures, and countercultures.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Vancouver
Canada
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
15 illustrations, 7 tables
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
499 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7748-1385-3 (9780774813853)
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Persons
Magda Fahrni is a member of the Department of History at the Universite du Quebec a Montreal. Robert Rutherdale is a member of the Department of History and Philosophy at Algoma University College. Contributors: Dimitry Anastakis, Eric Bedard, Joel Belliveau, Michael Dawson, Karen Dubinsky, Steven High, Marcel Martel, Steve Penfold, Becki Ross, Robert Rutherdale, Joan Sangster, Christabelle Sethna, and Robert Wright
Content
Acknowledgments
Introduction / Magda Fahrni and Robert Rutherdale
Part 1: Imagining Postwar Communities
1 Constructing the "Eskimo" Wife: White Women's Travel Writing, Colonialism, and the Canadian North, 1940-60 / Joan Sangster
2 The Intellectual Origins of the October Crisis / Eric Bedard
3 Acadian New Brunswick's Ambivalent Leap into the Canadian Liberal Order / Joel Belliveau
4 The "Narcissism of Small Differences": The Invention of Canadian English, 1951-67 / Steven High
5 From Liberalism to Nationalism: Peter C. Newman's Discovery of Canada / Robert Wright
6 Multilateralism, Nationalism, and Bilateral Free Trade: Competing Visions of Canadian Economic and Trade Policy, 1945-70 / Dimitry Anastakis
7 Selling by the Carload: The Early Years of Fast Food in Canada / Steve Penfold
Part 2: Diversity and Dissent
8 Leisure, Consumption, and the Public Sphere: Postwar Debates over Shopping Regulations in Vancouver and Victoria during the Cold War / Michael Dawson
9 Men Behind the Marquee: Greasing the Wheels of Vansterdam's Professional Striptease Scene, 1950-75 / Becki Ross
10 New "Faces" for Fathers: Memory, Life-Writing, and Fathers as Providers in the Postwar Consumer Era / Robert Rutherdale
11 "We Adopted a Negro": Interracial Adoption and the Hybrid Baby in 1960s Canada / Karen Dubinsky
12 "Chastity Outmoded!" The Ubyssey, Sex, and the Single Girl, 1960-70 / Christabelle Sethna
13 Law versus Medicine: The Debate over Drug Use in the 1960s / Marcel Martel
Contributors
Index
Introduction / Magda Fahrni and Robert Rutherdale
Part 1: Imagining Postwar Communities
1 Constructing the "Eskimo" Wife: White Women's Travel Writing, Colonialism, and the Canadian North, 1940-60 / Joan Sangster
2 The Intellectual Origins of the October Crisis / Eric Bedard
3 Acadian New Brunswick's Ambivalent Leap into the Canadian Liberal Order / Joel Belliveau
4 The "Narcissism of Small Differences": The Invention of Canadian English, 1951-67 / Steven High
5 From Liberalism to Nationalism: Peter C. Newman's Discovery of Canada / Robert Wright
6 Multilateralism, Nationalism, and Bilateral Free Trade: Competing Visions of Canadian Economic and Trade Policy, 1945-70 / Dimitry Anastakis
7 Selling by the Carload: The Early Years of Fast Food in Canada / Steve Penfold
Part 2: Diversity and Dissent
8 Leisure, Consumption, and the Public Sphere: Postwar Debates over Shopping Regulations in Vancouver and Victoria during the Cold War / Michael Dawson
9 Men Behind the Marquee: Greasing the Wheels of Vansterdam's Professional Striptease Scene, 1950-75 / Becki Ross
10 New "Faces" for Fathers: Memory, Life-Writing, and Fathers as Providers in the Postwar Consumer Era / Robert Rutherdale
11 "We Adopted a Negro": Interracial Adoption and the Hybrid Baby in 1960s Canada / Karen Dubinsky
12 "Chastity Outmoded!" The Ubyssey, Sex, and the Single Girl, 1960-70 / Christabelle Sethna
13 Law versus Medicine: The Debate over Drug Use in the 1960s / Marcel Martel
Contributors
Index