Radical Housewives: Price Wars and Food Politics in Mid-Twentieth-Century Canada (Studies in Gender and History) (2024)

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Main navigation Utility Menu Description Other Books in Series Documenting First Wave Feminisms: Volume 1: Transnational Collaborations and Crosscurrents (Studies in Gender and History) Paddling Her Own Canoe: The Times and Texts of E. Pauline Johnson (Tekahionwake) (Studies in Gender and History) Caught: Montreal's Modern Girls and the Law, 1869-1945 (Studies in Gender and History) Strangers in Our Midst: Sexual Deviancy in Postwar Ontario (Studies in Gender and History) Agents of Empire: British Female Migration to Canada and Australia, 1860-1930 (Studies in Gender and History) Earning Respect: The Lives of Working Women in Small Town Ontario, 1920-1960 (Studies in Gender and History #2) The Trouble with Normal: Postwar Youth and the Making of Heterosexuality (Studies in Gender and History #7) Revivals and Roller Rinks: Religion, Leisure, and Identity in Late-Nineteenth-Century Small-Town Ontario (Studies in Gender and History #5) Contesting Bodies and Nation in Canadian History (Studies in Gender and History) Giving Birth in Canada, 1900-1950 (Studies in Gender and History #19) Widows in White: Migration and the Transformation of Rural Women, Sicily, 1880-1928 (Studies in Gender and History #22) Before Official Multiculturalism: Women's Pluralism in Toronto, 1950s-1970s (Studies in Gender and History) Transnational Identity and Memory Making in the Lives of Iraqi Women in Diaspora (Studies in Gender and History) Sex and the Married Girl: Heterosexual Marriage and the Body in Postwar Canada (Studies in Gender and History) The Viking Immigrants: Icelandic North Americans (Studies in Gender and History) Reading Canadian Women's and Gender History (Studies in Gender and History) Purchasing Power: Women and the Rise of Canadian Consumer Culture (Studies in Gender and History) Setting the Agenda: Jean Royce and the Shaping of Queen's University (Studies in Gender and History #20) The Trouble with Normal: Postwar Youth and the Making of Heterosexuality (Studies in Gender and History #7) You May Also Like Sign up to receive our newsletter

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Radical Housewives is a history of the Canada's Housewives Consumers Association. Julie Guard reinterprets the view of postwar Canada as economically prosperous and reveals the left's role in the origins of the food security movement.

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