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Radical Housewives: Price Wars and Food Politics in Mid-Twentieth-Century Canada

Radical Housewives: Price Wars and Food Politics in Mid-Twentieth-Century Canada

Guard, Julie

Paperback

Series: Studies in Gender and History

Canadian HistoryGeneral Political ScienceGeneral World History

ISBN10: 1487521812
ISBN13: 9781487521813
Publisher: Univ Of Toronto Pr
Published: Feb 22 2019
Pages: 312
Weight: 1.05
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

Radical Housewives is a history of Canada's Housewives Consumers Association. This association was a community-based women's organization with ties to the communist and social democratic left that, from 1937 until the early 1950s, led a broadly based popular movement for state control of prices and made other far-reaching demands on the state. As radical consumer activists, the Housewives engaged in gender-transgressive political activism that challenged the government to protect consumers' interests rather than just those of business while popularizing socialist solutions to the economic crises of the Great Depression and the immediate postwar years.

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