Pick one intelligent girl: employability, domesticity, and the gendering of Canada's welfare state, 1939-1947
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1. Verfasser: Stephen, Jennifer Anne (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Toronto University of Toronto Press ©2007
Schriftenreihe:Studies in gender and history
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (p. [267]-292) and index
'I want you to pick one intelligent girl': Mobilizing Canada's womanpower -- The national selective service women's division and the management of women war workers -- The psychologist at war: Assessing and recruiting for the Canadian women's army corps -- Preparing for the peace: The demobilization of women workers -- 'An aptitude test is in your best interest': Canada's employment charter for women veterans -- The return to domesticity: Canada's womanhood in training
"During the tumultuous formative years of the Canadian welfare state, many women rose through the ranks of the federal civil service to oversee the massive recruitment of Canadian women to aid in the Second World War. Ironically, it became the task of these same female mandarins to encourage women to return to the household once the war was over. Pick One Intelligent Girl reveals the elaborate psychological, economic, and managerial techniques that were used to recruit and train women for wartime military and civilian jobs, and then, at war's end, to move women out of the labour force altogether." "This engaging study not only adds to the debates about the gendered origins of Canada's welfare state, it also makes an important contribution to Canadian social history, labour and gender studies, sociology, and political science."--Jacket
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ISBN:1442685654
9781442685659

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