Their Benevolent Design - Conservative Women and Protestant Child Charities in Montreal Volume 44

Before the advent of state-financed social services, poor relief in Quebec was private and sectarian. In Montreal a group of conservative, bourgeois women played a significant role by establishing institutions for destitute women and children. Their Benevolent Design explores how gender shaped the challenges inherent in their benevolent project.

About the author

Janice Harvey is a retired professor, now scholar in residence at Dawson College and a member of the Centre d'histoire des régulations sociales in Montreal.

Product details

• Authors: Janice Harvey
• Publisher: Mcgill-Queen's University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 12.03.2024
• EAN: 9780228020561
• ISBN: 978-0-228-02056-1
• No. of pages: 420
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 30 mm
• Weight: 626 g
• Series: Studies on the History of Queb
• Subject: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous