Tarah Brookfield

Cold War Comforts

Canadian Women, Child Safety, and Global Insecurity

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Produktbeschreibung

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. Shows how women employed maternalism, nationalism, and internationalism in their work, and looks at shifting constructions of family and gender in Cold War Canada.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
• Seitenzahl: 270
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. April 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 150mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 440g
• ISBN-13: 9781554586233
• ISBN-10: 1554586232
• Artikelnr.: 35212657

Autorenporträt

Tarah Brookfield is an assistant professor at Wilfrid Laurier University's Brantford campus, where she teaches in contemporary studies, history, and youth and children studies.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents for
Cold War Comforts: Canadian Women, Child Safety, and Global Insecurity, by
Tarah Brookfield
List of Acronyms and Initialisms
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part I: At Home
1. Cold War Canada: Mobilizing Women for a New War
2. The Home Front Becomes the Frontline: Fallout Shelter Madness
3. In the Name of Children: The Disarmament Movement
Part II: Abroad
4. Seeds of Destiny: The United Nations and Child Welfare
5. Long-Distance Mothers: Foster Parent Plan Programs
6. A Change in Direction: Starving, Knitting, and Caring for Vietnam
7. The Politics of Orphans: Origins of International Adoption and Operation
Babylift
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index