The New Day Recalled: Lives of Girls and Women in English Canada, 1919-1939

Suffragists predicated that women's participation in politics would reform society and lead to a new day for Canadian women. In this highly original and important book, Veronica Strong-Boag examines the lives of girls and women in the post-suffrage decades and argues that the new day did not dawn quite as expected. The author traces the life courses of women in English Canada in the interwar years. Six richly detailed chapters on childhood, paid work, courtship and marriage, domestic work, motherhood, and aging capture the essence of what it meant to be a female in Canada between the wars. --Publisher's description

OCLC: 28218902