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Studies in Childhood and Family in Canada

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A broad-ranging series that publishes scholarship from various disciplines, approaches and perspectives relevant to the concepts and relations of childhood and family in Canada. Our interests also include, but are not limited to, interdisciplinary approaches and theoretical investigations of gender, race, sexuality, geography, language and culture within these categories of experience, historical and contemporary.

We welcome proposals and manuscripts from Canadian authors. For further information, please contact the Series Editor:

Professor Cynthia Comacchio
History Department
Wilfrid Laurier University
75 University Avenue West
Waterloo, ON Canada N2L 3C5
Phone: (519) 884-0710 ext. 3422
Email: ccomacch@wlu.ca

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Ring Around the Maple

By Cynthia R. Comacchio & Neil Sutherland
Series: Studies in Childhood and Family in Canada

Ring Around the Maple is about the condition of children in Canada from roughly 1850 to 2000, a time during which “the modern” increasingly disrupted traditional ways. Authors Cynthia R. Comacchio ...

A War Guest in Canada

By W.A.B. Douglas
Foreword by Cynthia R. Comacchio
Introduction by Roger Sarty
Subjects: History, Canadian History, Military History, Biography & Autobiography
Series: Studies in Childhood and Family in Canada

During the Second World War, hundreds of children were sent from the UK to stay with family and friends in Canada as “war guests.” This book collects the letters of one such war guest, young W.A.B ...

Boom Kids

By James A. Onusko
Subjects: History, Canadian History, Cultural Studies
Series: Studies in Childhood and Family in Canada

The baby boomers and postwar suburbia remain a touchstone. For many, there is a belief that it has never been as good for youngsters and their families, as it was in the postwar years. Boom Kids explores ...

A Question of Commitment

Edited by Thomas Waldock
Foreword by Katherine Covell & R. Brian Howe
Subjects: Social Science, Child Studies, Social Work, Law, Child Advocacy
Series: Studies in Childhood and Family in Canada

With the adoption of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989), commentators began to situate the evolution of the status of children within the context of the “property to persons” ...

The Challenge of Children's Rights for Canada, 2nd edition

By J.C. Blokhuis, Katherine Covell, and R. Brian Howe
Subjects: Social Science, Social Work, Law, Child Advocacy, Child Studies
Series: Studies in Childhood and Family in Canada

More than a quarter of a century has passed since Canada promised to recognize and respect the rights of children under the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. Ratification of the Convention ...

Home Words

Edited by Mavis Reimer
Series: Studies in Childhood and Family in Canada

The essays in Home Words explore the complexity of the idea of home through various theoretical lenses and groupings of texts. One focus of this collection is the relation between the discourses of nation, ...

Growing Up in Armyville

By Deborah Harrison & Patrizia Albanese
Subjects: Family & Relationships, Social Science, Child Studies
Series: Studies in Childhood and Family in Canada

It was 2006, and eight hundred soldiers from the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) base in pseudonymous “Armyville,” Canada, were scheduled to deploy to Kandahar. Many students in the Armyville school district ...

Girls, Texts, Cultures

Edited by Clare Bradford & Mavis Reimer
Subjects: Cultural Studies, Social Science, Gender Studies, Literary Criticism, Children’s Literature
Series: Studies in Childhood and Family in Canada

This book focuses on girls and girlhoods, texts for and about girls, and the cultural contexts that shape girls’ experience. It brings together scholars from girls’ studies and children’s literature, ...

Engendering Transnational Voices

Edited by Guida Man & Rina Cohen
Subjects: Family & Relationships, Social Science, Women’s Studies, Emigration & Immigration
Series: Studies in Childhood and Family in Canada

Engendering Transnational Voices examines the transnational practices and identities of immigrant women, youth, and children in an era of global migration and neoliberalism, addressing such topics as ...

Abuse or Punishment?

By Marie-Aimée Cliche
Translated by W. Donald Wilson
Subjects: Family & Relationships, Domestic Violence, Language Arts & Disciplines, Translation, Child Abuse
Series: Studies in Childhood and Family in Canada

At one time, the use of corporal punishment by parents in child-rearing was considered normal, but in the second half of the nineteenth century this begin to change, in Quebec as well as the rest of the ...