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WGST 365: Girls and Women in Urban Canada, 1880 to 1940 Report a Broken Link

History 365/Women's and Gender Studies 365: Girls and Women in Urban Canada, 1880 to 1940 is a three-credit, intermediate-level course that introduces you to major themes in Canadian women’s and gender history.

Required Readings

Unit 1

No online required readings for Unit 1.

Unit 2

Domestic Responsibilities
Comacchio, C. R. (2001). Saving mothers and babies: Motherhood, medicine, and the modern state, 1900–1945. In S. A. Cook, L. R. McLean, & K. O'Rouke (Eds.), Framing our past: Canadian women’s history in the twentieth century (pp. 139–146; 448–450). Montreal: McGill–Queen’s University Press.

See Part Two, Chapter 31.
Bradbury, B. (1993). Managing and stretching wages: The work of wives. In Working families: Age, gender, and daily survival in industrializing Montreal (pp. 152–181; 287–295). Toronto: Oxford University Press.

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Bradbury, B. (1993). Managing and stretching wages: The work of wives. In Working families: Age, gender, and daily survival in industrializing Montreal (pp. 152–181; 287–295). Toronto: Oxford University Press.

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Dodd, D. (2001). Women and domestic technology: Household drudgery, “democratized consumption,” and patriarchy. In S. A. Cook, L. R. McLean, and K. O’Rourke (Eds.), Framing our past: Canadian women’s history in the twentieth century (pp. 101–110; 440). Montreal: McGill–Queen’s University Press.

See Part Two, Chapter 25.

Unit 3

Racialization and Immigration
No online required readings for Unit 3.

Unit 4

Paid Labour
Horodyski, M. (1986). Women and the Winnipeg General Strike of 1919. Manitoba History, 11, 28–37.

Unit 5

Moral Regulation
Strange, C. (1995). Citizens, workers, and mothers of the race. In Toronto’s girl problem: The perils and pleasures of the city, 1880–1930 (pp. 175–208; 254–259). Toronto: University of Toronto Press.

See Chapter 7.