Product Description: During the interwar period, Quebec was a strongly patriarchal society, where men in the Church, politics, and medicine, maintained a traditional norm of social and sexual standards that women were expected to abide by. Some women in the media and religious communities were complicit with this vision, upholding the ...read more

Product Description: Madeleine Parent's political activism has been a source of inspiration since her involvement in the textile strikes of the 1940s and 1950s. In this collection, Andree Levesque's team of writers brings to life Parent's battles as a feminist and a trade unionist, shedding light on the historical context of her work and her impact on Canadian history...read more

Product Description: This volume features a series of essays which describe the way in which control over the different stages of reproduction, from conception through delivery to childcare, has shifted in Canada from the central figure of the mother to experts and professionals.