Télécharger le livre :  Girls, Texts, Cultures
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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, fields that have traditionally conducted their research separately,...

Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2015-06-22
Collection : Studies in Childhood and Family in Canada
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Télécharger le livre :  Engendering Transnational Voices
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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 family relations, gender and work, schooling, remittances, cultural...

Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2015-05-04
Collection : Studies in Childhood and Family in Canada
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Télécharger le livre :  Abuse or Punishment?
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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 Western world. It was during this period that the extent of...

Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2014-11-27
Collection : Studies in Childhood and Family in Canada
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Télécharger le livre :  A Brief History of Women in Quebec
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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 Aboriginals to the twenty-first century to give a nuanced and complex...

Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2014-09-15
Collection : Studies in Childhood and Family in Canada
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Télécharger le livre :  With Children and Youth
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With Children and Youth provides a snapshot of emerging theories and perspectives in the field of child and youth care across North America. Well-known scholars and researchers present new and innovative critical perspectives, written in a provocative manner and...

Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2014-09-15
Collection : Studies in Childhood and Family in Canada
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Télécharger le livre :  Ontario Boys
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Ontario Boys explores the preoccupation with boyhood inOntario during the immediate postwar period, 1945–1960. It argues that a traditional version of boyhood was being rejuvenated in response to a population fraught with uncertainty, and suffering from insecurity,...

Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2014-02-04
Collection : Studies in Childhood and Family in Canada
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Télécharger le livre :  Cold War Comforts
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Cold War Comforts examines Canadian women’s efforts to protect children’s health and safety between the dropping of the first atomic bomb in Hiroshima in 1945 and the end of the Vietnam War in 1975. Amid this global insecurity, many women participated in civil defence...

Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2012-05-01
Collection : Studies in Childhood and Family in Canada
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Télécharger le livre :  Fostering Nation?
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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 is the first volume to offer a comprehensive history of what life has...

Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2011-09-28
Collection : Studies in Childhood and Family in Canada
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Télécharger le livre :  The Social Origins of the Welfare State
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The Social Origins of the Welfare State traces the evolution of the first universal laws for Québec families, passed during the Second World War. In this translation of her award-winning Aux origines sociales de l´État-providence, Dominique Marshall examines the...

Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2011-04-07
Collection : Studies in Childhood and Family in Canada
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Télécharger le livre :  The One Best Way?
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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 supply, and public health concerns such as health care costs and the...

Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2011-04-07
Collection : Studies in Childhood and Family in Canada
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Télécharger le livre :  Depicting Canada’s Children
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Depicting Canada’s Children is a critical analysis of the visual representation of Canadian children from the seventeenth century to the present. Recognizing the importance of methodological diversity, these essays discuss understandings of children and childhood...

Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2011-04-07
Collection : Studies in Childhood and Family in Canada
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Télécharger le livre :  Babies for the Nation
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Described by some as a “necropolis for babies,” the province of Quebec in the early twentieth century recorded infant mortality rates, particularly among French-speaking Catholics, that were among the highest in the Western world. This “bleeding of the nation” gave...

Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2010-11-04
Collection : Studies in Childhood and Family in Canada
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Télécharger le livre :  Love Strong as Death
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A transcription of Lucy Peel’s wonderfully readable journal was recently discovered in her descendent’s house in Norwich, England. Sent in regular installments to her transatlantic relatives, the journal presents an intimate narrative of Lucy’s Canadian sojourn with...

Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2010-10-30
Collection : Studies in Childhood and Family in Canada
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Télécharger le livre :  Evangelical Balance Sheet
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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 ideals and evangelicalism in mid-Victorian culture. Rudolf’s...

Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2010-10-26
Collection : Studies in Childhood and Family in Canada
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Télécharger le livre :  Freedom to Play
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“When we were children we made our own fun” is a frequent comment from those who were children in pre-television times. But what games, activities and amusements did children enjoy prior to the mid-1950s? Recollections of older Canadians, selections from writings by...

Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2010-09-29
Collection : Studies in Childhood and Family in Canada
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Télécharger le livre :  Home Words
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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, which often represent the nation as home, and the discourses of...

Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2009-08-01
Collection : Studies in Childhood and Family in Canada
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Télécharger le livre :  A Question of Commitment
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In 1991, the Government of Canada ratified the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, requiring governments at all levels to ensure that Canadian laws and practices safeguard the rights of children. A Question of Commitment: Children’s Rights in Canada...

Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2009-07-29
Collection : Studies in Childhood and Family in Canada
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Télécharger le livre :  The Dominion of Youth
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Adolescence, like childhood, is more than a biologically defined life stage: it is also a sociohistorical construction. The meaning and experience of adolescence are reformulated according to societal needs, evolving scientific precepts, and national aspirations...

Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2008-10-08
Collection : Studies in Childhood and Family in Canada
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