Creating This Place
Women, Family, and Class in St John's, 1900-1950
1st Edition
Published on 1. April 2014
353 pages
978-0-7735-9034-2 (ISBN)
Description
The women of St John's and the making of Newfoundland society.
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Linda Cullum is associate professor of sociology at Memorial University. Marilyn Porter is professor emerita of sociology at Memorial University.
Content
- Cover
- CREATING THIS PLACE
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Maps and Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Creating This Place: An Introduction
- 1 Activist Anglicans and Rectors' Wives: The Impact of Class and Gender on Women's Church Work in St John's
- 2 A Class unto Itself: Phebe Florence Miller's Outport Literary Salon
- 3 Julia Salter Earle: Seeking Social Justice
- 4 Below Stairs: Domestic Service in Twentieth-Century St John's
- 5 Armine Nutting Gosling: A Full and Useful Life
- 6 "She Knows Who She Is": Educating Girls to Their Place in Society
- 7 "It's Up to the Women": Gender, Class, and Nation Building in Newfoundland, 1935-1945
- 8 Thrift and the Good Child Citizen: The Junior Thrift Clubs in Confederation-Era Newfoundland
- 9 "I Am Very Badly in Need of Help": Promises and Promissory Notes in Women's Letters to J.R. Smallwood
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Contributors
