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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 ...

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, ...

Making Do

By Denyse Baillargeon
Translated by Yvonne Klein
Subjects: History, Language Arts & Disciplines, Translation, Social Science, Women’s Studies, Canadian History
Series: Studies in Childhood and Family in Canada

Life in the Great Depression — long lines of unemployed, soup kitchens, men riding the rails, public works projects — these are the graphic images of the Great Depression of the 1930s, popularized ...

NFB Kids

By Brian J. Low
Subjects: History, Ethnography, Cultural Studies, Film & Media, Social Science, Sociology, Canadian History
Series: Studies in Childhood and Family in Canada

Imagine a society that exists solely in cinema — this book explores exactly that.
Using a half-century of films from the archival collection of the National Film Board, NFB Kids: Portrayals of Children ...

Ontario Boys

By Christopher J. Greig
Subjects: Social Science, Gender Studies, Cultural Studies, Child Studies, History, Canadian History
Series: Studies in Childhood and Family in Canada

Ontario Boys explores the preoccupation with boyhood in Ontario during the immediate postwar period, 1945–1960. It argues that a traditional version of boyhood was being rejuvenated in response to a ...

The One Best Way?

By Aleck Ostry & Tasnim Nathoo
Subjects: Social Science, Women’s Studies, History, Canadian History, Child Studies, Medical, Public Health, History Of Medicine
Series: Studies in Childhood and Family in Canada

In recent years, breastfeeding has been prominently in the public eye in relation to debates on issues ranging from parental leave policies, work−family balance, public decency, the safety of our food ...

A Brief History of Women in Quebec

By Denyse Baillargeon
Translated by W. Donald Wilson
Subjects: History, Canadian History, Language Arts & Disciplines, Translation, Social Science, Women’s Studies
Series: Studies in Childhood and Family in Canada

A Brief History of Women in Quebec examines the historical experience of women of different social classes and origins (geographic, ethnic, and racial) from the period of contact between Europeans and ...

Evangelical Balance Sheet

By B. Anne Wood
Series: Studies in Childhood and Family in Canada

Using the journals of W. Norman Rudolf (1835-1886), a Victorian merchant, Evangelical Balance Sheet: Character, Family, and Business in Mid-Victorian Nova Scotia explores the important role of character ...

Fostering Nation?

By Veronica Strong-Boag
Subjects: Political Science, Social Services, Social Science, Sociology, Child Studies
Series: Studies in Childhood and Family in Canada

Fostering Nation? Canada Confronts Its History of Childhood Disadvantage explores the missteps and the promise of a century and more of child protection efforts by Canadians and their governments. It ...

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, ...