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OverviewRadical Housewives is a history of Canada's Housewives Consumers Association. This association was a community-based women's organization with ties to the communist and social democratic left that, from 1937 until the early 1950s, led a broadly based popular movement for state control of prices and made other far-reaching demands on the state. As radical consumer activists, the Housewives engaged in gender-transgressive political activism that challenged the government to protect consumers' interests rather than just those of business while popularizing socialist solutions to the economic crises of the Great Depression and the immediate postwar years. Julie Guard's exhaustive research, including archival research and interviews with twelve former Housewives, recovers a history of women's social justice activism in an era often considered dormant and adds a Canadian dimension to the history of politicized consumerism and of politicized materialism. Radical Housewives reinterprets the view of postwar Canada as economically prosperous and reveals the left's role in the origins of the food security movement. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Julie GuardPublisher: University of Toronto Press Imprint: University of Toronto Press Dimensions: Width: 16.50cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 23.60cm Weight: 0.580kg ISBN: 9781487502157ISBN 10: 148750215 Pages: 312 Publication Date: 22 February 2019 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Temporarily unavailable  The supplier advises that this item is temporarily unavailable. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out to you. Table 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"ReviewsIn her book, Guard tells a fascinating story of this little-known but very influential movement in mid-twentieth-century Canada. -- Joel Trono-Doerksen * <em>Canada's History</em * Author InformationJulie Guard is Professor of History and Labour Studies at the University of Manitoba. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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