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They're still women after all : the Second World War and Canadian womanhood  Cover Image Book Book

They're still women after all : the Second World War and Canadian womanhood / Ruth Roach Pierson.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780771069581 (pbk.)
  • ISBN: 0771069588 (pbk.)
  • Physical Description: 301 p. : ill ; 21 cm.
  • Publisher: Toronto, Ont. : McClelland and Stewart, c1986.

Content descriptions

General Note:
Includes index.
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Bibliography: p. 221-236.
Formatted Contents Note:
Women's emancipation and the recruitment of women into the war effort -- Government job-training programs for women, 1937-1947, with Marjorie Cohen -- "CWAC of all trades" -- Wartime jitters of femininity -- Ladies or "loose" women -- VD control and the CWAC in World War II -- Conclusion: "When fluffy clothes replace[d] the uniform".
Subject: World War, 1939-1945 > Canada > Participation, Female.
Women > Employment > Canada > History > 20th century.
World War, 1939-1945 > Women > Canada.
Women and war > Canada.
Canada > Economic conditions > 1918-1945.

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Vancouver Island University Library.

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