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Pages: 486
Authors: Valerie J. Korinek
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2000-01-01 - Publisher: University of Toronto Press

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Korinek shows that rather than promoting domestic perfection, Chatelaine did not cling to the stereotypes of the era, but instead forged ahead, providing women
Roughing it in the Suburbs
Language: en
Pages: 512
Authors: Valerie J. Korinek
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2000-12-15 - Publisher: University of Toronto Press

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Originally launched in 1928, by the 1950s and 1960s nearly two million readers every month sampled "Chatelaine" magazine's eclectic mixture of traditional and s
Fighting Fat
Language: en
Pages: 450
Authors: Wendy Mitchinson
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-10-11 - Publisher: University of Toronto Press

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While the statistics for obesity have been alarming in the twenty-first century, concern about fatness has a history. In Fighting Fat, Wendy Mitchinson discusse
Gender, Health, and Popular Culture
Language: en
Pages: 330
Authors: Cheryl Krasnick Warsh
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-07-07 - Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press

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Health is a gendered concept in Western cultures. Customarily it is associated with strength in men and beauty in women. This gendered concept was transmitted t
Sisters Or Strangers
Language: en
Pages: 442
Authors: Franca Iacovetta
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004-01-01 - Publisher: University of Toronto Press

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Spanning two hundred years of history from the nineteenth century to the 1990s, Sisters or Strangers? explores the complex lives of immigrant, ethnic, and racia