Awards

• Commended for Canadian Women's Studies Association Book Prize 2011 (Canada)
• Commended for Canadian Women’s Studies Association Book Prize 2011 (Canada)
• Commended for Sir John A. Macdonald Prize awarded by Canadian Historical Association 2010 (Canada)

Overview

High unemployment rates, humiliating relief policy, and the spectre of eviction characterized the experiences of many Ontario families in the Great Depression. Respectable Citizens is an examination of the material difficulties and survival strategies of families facing poverty and unemployment, and an analysis of how collective action and protest redefined the meanings of welfare and citizenship in the 1930s. Lara Campbell draws on diverse sources including newspapers, family and juvenile court records, premiers' papers, memoirs, and oral histories to uncover the ways in which the material workings of the family and the discursive category of 'respectable' citizenship were invested with gendered obligations and Anglo-British identity. Respectable Citizens demonstrates how women and men represented themselves as entitled to make specific claims on the state, shedding new light on the cooperative and conflicting relationships between men and women, parents and children, and citizen and state in 1930s Canada.

Full Product Details

Author:   Lara A. Campbell
Publisher:   University of Toronto Press
Imprint:   University of Toronto Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.90cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.580kg
ISBN:  

9780802099747

ISBN 10:   0802099742
Pages:   304
Publication Date:   14 November 2009
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter One: 'Giving all the good in me to save my children': Domestic Labour, Motherhood, and 'Making Do' in Ontario Families Chapter Two: 'If he is a man he becomes desperate': Unemployed Husbands, Fathers, and Workers Chapter Three: The Obligations of Family: Parents, Children's Labour, and Youth Culture Chapter Four: 'A Family's Self-Respect and Morale': Negotiating Respectability and Conflict in Home and Family Chapter Five: Militant Mothers and Loving Fathers: Gender, Family, and Ethnicity in Protest Conclusion: Survival, Citizenship, and State Endnotes Bibliography

Reviews

?Respectable Citizens offers a vivid analysis of a unique period in Canadian history that has been rarely studied through a gendered lens? a thought-provoking read, offering rich glimpses of the past as well as striking parallels to the present day.? -- Karen Hughes

'Respectable Citizens offers a vivid analysis of a unique period in Canadian history that has been rarely studied through a gendered lens... a thought-provoking read, offering rich glimpses of the past as well as striking parallels to the present day.' -- Karen Hughes Canadian Journal of Sociology; vol35:04:2010

'Respectable Citizens offers a vivid analysis of a unique period in Canadian history that has been rarely studied through a gendered lens... a thought-provoking read, offering rich glimpses of the past as well as striking parallels to the present day.' -- Karen Hughes Canadian Journal of Sociology; vol35:04:2010 'Respectable Citizens is an invaluable resource to those who study the Great Depression in Canada precisely because its many observations lead to many opportunities for further exploration.' -- Neal Adolph Histoire sociale / Social History, vol 47:95:2014

Author Information

Lara Campbell is an associate professor in the Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies at Simon Fraser University.

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