Radical Housewives - Price Wars and Food Politics in Mid-Twentieth-Century Canada

Radical Housewives is a history of the Canada’s Housewives Consumers Association. Julie Guard reinterprets the view of postwar Canada as economically prosperous and reveals the left’s role in the origins of the food security movement.

List of contents

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1 Price War: Housewives Organize in the Great Depression
2 Housewife-Patriots and Wartime Price Controls
3 Fighting for the Working Class: The Struggle for Postwar Price Controls
4 Mothers, Breadwinners, and Citizens
5 Citizen Consumers or Kitchen Communists?
6 "Reds," Housewives, and the Cold War
Notes
Index

About the author

By Julie Guard

Summary

Radical Housewives is a history of the Canada’s Housewives Consumers Association. Julie Guard reinterprets the view of postwar Canada as economically prosperous and reveals the left’s role in the origins of the food security movement.

Product details

• Authors: Julie Guard
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 22.02.2019
• EAN: 9781487521813
• ISBN: 978-1-4875-2181-3
• No. of pages: 312
• Series: Studies in Gender History; Studies in Gender and History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education