Household politics : Montreal families and postwar reconstruction / Magda Fahrni.

Based on the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--York University.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-268) and index.

Introduction -- Summer 1945 -- A web of welfare: the mixed social economy of postwar Montreal -- 'Pour que bientôt il me revienne': sustaining soldiers, veterans, and their families -- Commemorating the cent-mariés: marriage and public memory -- A politics of prices: married women and economic citizenship -- In the streets: fatherhood and public protest -- Conclusion: city unique?

The reconstruction of Canadian society in the wake of the Second World War had an enormous impact on all aspects of public and private life. For families in Montreal, reconstruction plans included a stable home life hinged on social and economic security, female suffrage, welfare-state measures, and a reasonable cost of living. In Household Politics, Magda Fahrni examines postwar reconstruction from a variety of angles in order to fully convey its significance in the 1940s as differences of class, gender, language, religion, and region naturally produced differing perspectives.Reconstruction was not simply a matter of official policy. Although the government set many of the parameters for public debate, federal projects did not inspire a postwar consensus, and families alternatively embraced, negotiated, or opposed government plans. Through in-depth research from a wide variety of sources, Fahrni brings together family history, social history, and political history to look at a wide variety of Montreal families - French-speaking and English-speaking; Catholic, Protestant, and Jewish - making Household Politics a particularly unique and erudite study.

In English.

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