Social Science Women's Studies
Creating This Place
Women, Family, and Class in St John's, 1900-1950
- Publisher
- McGill-Queen's University Press
- Initial publish date
- Apr 2014
- Category
- Women's Studies
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9780773590359
- Publish Date
- Apr 2014
- List Price
- $29.95
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780773543119
- Publish Date
- Mar 2014
- List Price
- $29.95
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Description
The twentieth century witnessed both the formation of Newfoundland as a self-conscious national entity and the construction of distinct and self-aware middle and upper classes in its capital city. This interdisciplinary collection examines the key roles played by women in the creation of this state and society, and the essential influence that gender, ethnicity, and religion played in class relations.
Shifting class relations were formed in the salient political events of the first half of the twentieth century in Newfoundland: the First World War, the suffrage movement, the Great Depression, the Second World War, and finally Newfoundland's contested entry into the Canadian Confederation. Creating This Place shows how upper-, middle-, and working-class worlds were established in the everyday work of women, as well as the ways in which the complex social boundaries of the period were constructed. Individual chapters explore issues such as women's work in religious and voluntary institutions, their struggle for voice, suffrage, and political change, work of domestic servants, and the construction of "proper" women and mothers through denominational education.
Creating This Place adopts an innovative perspective on Newfoundland and Labrador that focuses on the often overlooked lives of urban women.
Contributors include Sonja Boon (Memorial University), Linda Cullum (Memorial University), Margot Duley (University of Illinois at Springfield), Vicki Hallett (Memorial University), Jonathan Luedee (doctoral candidate, University of British Columbia), Bonnie Morgan (doctoral candidate, University of New Brunswick), Marilyn Porter (emerita, Memorial University), Karen Stanbridge (Memorial University), Helen Woodrow (Educational Planning and Design Associates and Harrish Press Publications).
About the authors
Linda Cullum is a teacher, researcher and writer, currently employed in the Department of Sociology and the Women’s Studies Program at Memorial University of Newfoundland. She has written most recently on women and fish plant work in 1940s and is active in community work with equality-seeking groups.
Marilyn Porter is professor emerita of sociology at Memorial University.