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Book SynopsisHe Was Some Kind of a Man: Masculinities in the B Western explores the construction and representation of masculinity in low-budget western movies made from the 1930s to the early 1950s. These films contained some of the mid-twentieth-century's most familiar names, especially for youngsters: cowboys such as Roy Rogers, Hopalong Cassidy, and Red Ryder. The first serious study of a body of films that was central to the youth of two generations, He Was Some Kind of a Man combines the author's childhood fascination with this genre with an interdisciplinary scholarly exploration of the films influence on modern views of masculinity. McGillis argues that the masculinity offered by these films is less one-dimensional than it is plural, perhaps contrary to expectations. Their deeply conservative values are edged with transgressive desire, and they construct a male figure who does not fit into binary categories, such as insider/outsider or masculine/feminine. Particularly relevant is the author's discussion of George W. Bush as a cowboy and how his aspirations to cowboy ideals continue to shape American policy. This engagingly written book will appeal to the general reader interested in film, westerns, and contemporary culture as well as to scholars in film studies, gender studies, children's literature, and auto/biography.Trade Review"McGillis' love of the cowboy film, indeed the overwhelming importance of the genre for his childhood identity, is evident throughout the book, which is full of personal anecdotes and nostalgic recollections...He is most effective when discussing masculinity and boyhood and he analyses costume in the B Western well." Paul Sutton (Roehampton University), Times Higher Education, 19 November 2009"A fascinating study of part of the wider genre that wise pardners would be quick to get out of the saddle and check out. Yee-haw." -- Screentrade Feb 2010``Although McGillis focuses on...Westerns of Gene Autry, Roy Rogers, and Hopalong Cassidy (among others) of the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s, this study transcends this body of films and makes important contributions to theorization of cinematic masculinity.... His remarkable knowledge of the story lines of the films allows him to articulate several leitmotifs of the subgenre. His application of queer and psychoanalytic theory is brash, and his discussion of gender construction, textuality, and cowboy codes in B Westerns applies both to the films and to 20th-century concepts of masculinity.... Highly recommended.'' -- G.R. Butters, Jr., Aurora University -- CHOICE, April 2010, 201004``McGillis is particularly good at making critical and psychoanalytical theory intelligible for the layman.'' -- John M. Clum, Duke University -- Great Plains Quarterly, Fall 2010, 201011``In his fine book He Was Some Kind of a Man ... McGillis views B westerns with the steely-eyed gaze of a tough-minded culture critic.... As McGillis notes, the heroes of B westerns are 'steadfast, independent, resourceful, self-reliant, aggressive, rational and controlling' (1).... To be a B-movie cowboy is to live the playfully irresponsible (and sexually inactive) life of a boy. Indeed, according to McGillis, 'the "boy" is our ideal of masculinity' (18). Real men do not work in offices, change diapers, or cut down on sweets or gunplay.... As well as drawing on theories of camp and drag and offering a Lacanian analysis of the cowboy hero as ideal, McGillis derives insights from a range of ideological theories and cultural approaches, including shrewd and persuasive discussions of race and stereotyping, queerness and homosociality, the psychological significance of horses and guns, and the ambiguous relationship between the B western's usual identification of bankers and businessmen as villains and their cowboy hero's involvement in consumer culture. Indeed, the book's main strength is the way it combines diverse theoretical threads into a complex reading of what seems at first to be so simple.'' -- Perry Nodelman -- Jeunesse: Young People, Texts, Cultures, 3.2, 2011, 201201``This sharp and fabulously entertaining study of B westerns and the American cowboy also has a lot to say about popular culture, children's literature, the gun fetish, white privilege, camp, heteronormativity, and nationalism. McGillis is at home on the range. A major work of scholarship and great fun as well. His heroes have always been cowboys, admits McGillis, and lucky for us. McGillis provides an incisive and entertaining analysis of American cowboy culture by way of B westerns from the 1930s to the mid-50s. A significant work of scholarship, of interest to anyone working in American cultural and literary studies.'' -- Kenneth Kidd, University of Florida -- 200904``Roderick McGillis analyzes the portrayal of masculinity in the Saturday afternoon western films of the thirties, forties, and early fifties, the B westerns of the early sound era. He approaches these films as a version of children's literature, since they were aimed at and primarily viewed by boys. He considers various standard images, including those of women, of Indians and blacks (the racial Other), of guns, of clothes (sequins, fringes), of horses, and of the western landscape. His analytic tools include references to queer theory, psychoanalysis, and the needs of the market. He was a fan of these films as a child, he remains a fan today, and he wants to understand the effects of these flms on our current concepts of manliness.... Thought provoking and insightful.'' -- Will Wright -- University of Toronto Quarterly, Volume 81, number 3, Summer 2011, 201212Table of ContentsTable of Contents for He Was Some Kind of a Man: Masculinities in the B Western by Roderick McGillis Preface 1: Introduction: Ride the High Country or âThey Went Thatawayâ 2: Cowboy Codes: Straight and Pure and All Boy 3: When We were Young: Nostalgia and the Cowboy Hero 4: Arms and the Man: The Friendly Gun 5: Give Me My Boots and Saddles: Camp Cowboy 6: Tall in the Saddle: Romance on the Range 7: White Hats and White Heroes: Who Is That Other Guy? 8: Virgin Land: Landscape, Nature, and Masculinity 9: Corporate Cowboys and the Shaping of a Nation Postscript: The Frontiersman (1938) List of Films Mentioned References Index

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Book Synopsis Music Traditions, Cultures, and Contexts is a tribute to the ethnomusicologist Beverley Diamond in recognition of her outstanding scholarly accomplishments. The volume includes essays by leading ethnomusicologists and music scholars as well as a biographical introduction. The book's contributors engage many of the critical themes in Diamond's work, including musical historiography, musical composition in historical and contemporary frameworks, performance in diverse contexts, gender issues, music and politics, and how music is nested in and relates to broader issues in society. The essays raise important themes about knowing and understanding musical traditions and music itself as an agent of social, cultural, and political change. Music Traditions, Cultures, and Contexts will appeal to music scholars and students, as well as to a general audience interested in learning about how music functions as social process as well as sound. Trade Review"The editors have done an excellent job drawing together significant essays to honour Diamond. This festschrift is a valuable compilation that belongs in all music collections." -- Elaine Keillor, Carleton University -- CAML Review, Vol 39, #1, 2011, 201105"The volume is both interesting and informative.... I recommend Music Traditions, Cultures, and Contexts to those interested in music and identity, cultural contexts of music, popular, and traditional music. Libraries boasting collections on said topics should consider purchasing this title, as it contributes to the discourse and provides additional insights into contemporary ethnomusicology." -- Joe C. Clark, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio -- Fontes Artis Musicae, 60/1, 201401"In sum, this is a valuable book on a wide range of topics from a diversity of voices that...is a fine tribute to a highly accomplished scholar, valued colleague, and loved and respected teacher." -- Thérèse Smith, University College Dublin -- Journal of the Society for Musicology in Ireland, Vol 6, 2010-11, 201106Table of Contents Music Traditions: Cultures & Contexts, edited by Robin Elliott and Gordon E. Smith List of Illustrations List of Music Illustrations Acknowledgments Preface 1. Beverley Diamond: Life Stories, Academic Directions and Teaching, Research, and Scholarly Activity Robin Elliott and Gordon E. Smith 2. Conservations with Clifford Crawley Beverley Diamond 3. Ethnomusicology Critiques Itself: Comments on the History of a Tradition Bruno Nettl 4. Is Fieldwork Still Necessary? Ellen Koskoff 5. Toward a History of Ethnomusicology's North Americanist Agenda Kay Kaufman Shelemay 6. Encountering Oral Performance as Total Musical Fact Regula Burckhardt Qureshi 7. You Also Work as a Church Organist? Whatever For? Charlotte J. Frisbie 8. The Politics of Organology and the Nova Scotia Banjo: An Essay in Honour of Beverley Diamond Neil V. Rosenberg 9. Strategies of Survival: Traditional Music, Politics, and Music Education among Two Minorities of Finland Pirkko Moisala 10. Father of Romance, Vagabond of Glory: Two Canadian Composers as Stage Heroes John Beckwith 11. Funk and James Brown, Re-Africanization, the Interlocked Groove, and the Articulation of Community Rob Bowman 12. On the One: Parliament/Funkadelic, the Mothership, and Transformation Rob Bowman 13. Politics through Pleasure: Party Music in Trinidad Jocelyne Guilbault 14. A Festschrift for the Twenty-First Century: Student Voices Kip Pegley and Virginia Caputo Appendix: Beverley Diamond—Publications and Lectures Contributors Index Contributors' Biographies John Beckwith, composer, writer, and professor emeritus, Faculty of Music, University of Toronto, was one of Beverley Diamond's teachers at the University of Toronto. His Arctic Dances for oboe and piano (1984) are based on her transcriptions of Inuit dance-songs. Recent works include A New Pibroch for Highland pipes, strings, and percussion (2003); Fractions for microtonal piano and string quartet (2006); and Beckett Songs for baritone and guitar (2008). A CD of selected vocal works, Avowals, appeared in 2007 from Centrediscs. Beckwith is the author of Music Papers: Articles and Talks by a Canadian Composer, 1961-1994 (1997), and In Search of Alberto Guerrero (2006). Talks given at a symposium in Toronto in 2007 marking his eightieth birthday appear in the ICM Newsletter 5, no. 3 (September 2007). Rob Bowman has been writing professionally about rhythm and blues, rock, country, jazz, and gospel for over a quarter century. Nominated for five Grammy Awards, in 1996 Bowman won the Grammy in the ""Best Album Notes"" category for a 47,000-word monograph he penned to accompany a 10-CD box set that he also co-produced, The Complete Stax/Volt Soul Singles Volume 3: 1972-1975 (Fantasy Records). He is also the author of Soulsville U.S.A.: The Story of Stax Records (Schirmer Books), winner of the 1998 ASCAP-Deems Taylor and ARSC Awards for Excellence in Music Research. On top of his popular press and liner note work, Bowman played a seminal role in the founding and creation of the Stax Museum of American Soul Music (opened in Memphis in 2003), wrote the four-part television documentary series The Industry, and has helped pioneer the study and teaching of popular music in the world of academia. He is a tenured professor at York University in Toronto, and regularly lectures on popular music around the world. Virginia Caputo received her Ph.D. from the Department of Social Anthropology at York University in 1996, holding a SSHRCC doctoral fellowship. She is associate professor and director of the Pauline Jewett Institute of Women's and Gender Studies at Carleton University where she has taught since 1997. An ethnomusicologist and social anthropologist, Virginia's research lies at the intersection of feminism, anthropology, and child/girlhood research. Her work addresses theoretical and methodological approaches to research with children with a specific interest in children as social actors. Her research has included work on children's experiences in schools, gender issues in music, children's oral traditions, young women and technology, and third wave feminism. Beverley Diamond, FRSC, is Canada Research Chair in Traditional Music and Ethnomusicology at Memorial University of Newfoundland. Music traditions, cultures, and contexts is a tribute to her outstanding scholarly contributions, which are discussed, along with her life and various aspects of her career, in Chapter 1 of this book. Robin Elliott studied Canadian music with Beverley Diamond as an undergraduate student at Queen's University. He is professor of musicology in the Faculty of Music, University of Toronto, where he holds the Jean A. Chalmers Chair in Canadian music, is the director of the Institute for Canadian Music, and is associate dean, undergraduate education. He has co-edited Istvan Anhalt: Pathways and memory (2001), Music and literature in German romanticism (2004), and Centre and periphery, roots and exile: Interpreting the music of Istvan Anhalt and György Kurtág (forthcoming from Wilfrid Laurier University Press). He is a senior fellow at Massey College. Charlotte J. Frisbie is professor emerita of anthropology at Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville (SIUE). A former president of the Society for Ethnomusicology and co-founder, in 1982, of the Navajo Studies Conference, Inc., she continues both anthropological and ethnomusicological research. At present, her Navajo work focuses on ethnohistory, historic preservation and restoration, traditional foods and their preparation, traditional indigenous knowledge, repatriation and other responses to NAGPRA, and autobiographies. Other continuing interests include indigenous peoples of North America, gender studies, ritual drama, language and culture, Native American hymnody, action anthropology, collaborative/reciprocal ethnography, history of SEM and its early women, and the history of the Quercus Grove southern Illinois farming community where she and her family live. A music major in college years ago, Charlotte also maintains a lively interest in church music and performs it as a bell-ringer and an organist. Jocelyne Guilbault is professor of ethnomusicology in the Music Department of the University of California, Berkeley. Since 1980, she has done extensive fieldwork in the French Creole- and English-speaking islands of the Caribbean on both traditional and popular music. She has published articles on ethnographic writings, aesthetics, the cultural politics of Western Indian music industries, and world music. She is the author of Zouk: World music in the West Indies (1993) and the co-editor of Border crossings: New direction in music studies (1999-2000). Her recent book, Governing sound: The cultural politics of Trinidad's Carnival musics (2007), explores the ways the calypso music scene became audibly entangled with projects of governing, audience demands, and market incentives. Ellen Koskoff is professor of ethnomusicology at the University of Rochester's Eastman School of Music and director of the Eastman School's ethnomusicology programs as well as its Balinese gamelan angklung. She has published widely on Jewish music and on gender and music, and is the editor of Women and Music in Cross-Cultural Perspective (1987) and the author of Music in Lubavitcher Life (2000), which won the 2002 ASCAP Deems-Taylor award. Koskoff is a contributor to the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians and is the general editor of the Garland Encyclopedia of World Music, vol. 3, ""The United States and Canada."" She is also the general editor of the University of Rochester Press's Eastman/ Rochester Studies in Ethnomusicology Series and a former president of the Society for Ethnomusicology. Pirkko Moisala is the professor of ethnomusicology at Helsinki University. Currently she is the president of Finland's Society for Ethnomusicology. From 1993 to 2000 she was the co-chair of the Music and Gender Study Group of the International Council for Traditional Music. Her research embraces the cultural study of all kinds of music, with particular specializations in Nepal and Finland. She co-edited Music and gender (2000) with Beverley Diamond, and is the author of Cultural cognition in music: Continuity and change in the Gurung music of Nepal (1991), the coauthor of Gender and qualitative methods (2003), and the author of Kaija Saariaho (2009). Bruno Nettl was born in Prague, received his Ph.D. at Indiana University, and spent most of his career teaching at the University of Illinois, where he is now professor emeritus of music and anthropology. His main research interests are ethnomusicological theory and method, music of Native American cultures, and music of the Middle East, especially Iran. He has been concerned in recent years with the study of improvisatory musics, and with the intellectual history of ethnomusicology. Among his books, the most recent are The study of ethnomusicology (1983), which, after over twenty years, appeared in a revised edition in 2005; and Encounters in ethnomusicology (2002), a professional memoir. He has served as president of the Society for Ethnomusicology and in 2002 completed a second term as editor of its journal, Ethnomusicology. Kip Pegley is an associate professor in the School of Music at Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, with cross-appointments to the Department of Film and Media, and the Department of Women's Studies. Her recent book, Coming to you wherever you are: MuchMusic, MTV, and youth identities, was published with Wesleyan University Press in 2008. She is currently co-editing (with Susan Fast, McMaster University) a volume of essays entitled Music, violence and geopolitics, which explores the role of music in geopolitical conflicts from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, including wars, revolutions, protests, genocides, and the post-9/11 ""war on terror."" Regula Burckhardt Qureshi, FRSC, is professor of music and director of the Folkways Alive Project, as well as founder and director of the Canadian Centre for Ethnomusicology at the University of Alberta. She has a special interest in ethnography, documentation, and collaborative research as well as music-making. Her publications focus on music as a social, cultural, and spiritual practice. A cellist and sarangi player, her numerous publications include Sufi music in India and Pakistan: Sound, context, and meaning in Qawwali (1986); Music and Marx: Ideas, practice, politics (2002); and Master musicians of India: Hindustani musicians speak (2007); she also co-edited Muslim society in North America (1983) and Muslim families in North America (1991). Neil V. Rosenberg is professor emeritus at Memorial University in St. John's, Newfoundland, where he taught in the Department of Folklore from 1968 to 2004. A fellow of the American Folklore Society and recipient of the Folklore Studies Association of Canada's Marius Barbeau Award for lifetime achievement, he has published extensively on Canadian and American folk music topics. His books include Bluegrass: A history (2005) and Transforming tradition: Folk music revivals examined (1993). He has been playing the banjo since 1959. Kay Kaufman Shelemay, the G. Gordon Watts professor of music and professor of African and African American Studies at Harvard University, has carried out fieldwork in Africa (Ethiopia and Ghana), the Middle East (Israel), and the United States. A former president of the Society for Ethnomusicology and a member of the Board of the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress, Shelemay's most recent books include the textbook Soundscapes: Exploring music in a changing world (2nd ed., 2006), and Pain and its transformations: The interface of biology and culture (2007), co-edited with Sarah Coakley. Shelemay has held fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the American Council for Learned Societies, and was named the chair for Modern Culture at the John W. Kluge Center of the Library of Congress. Her current research focuses on Ethiopian music and musicians new to North America. Gordon E. Smith is professor of ethnomusicology at Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario. Formerly director of the School of Music, he is currently associate dean in the Faculty of Arts and Science. He is co-editor of Istvan Anhalt: Pathways and memory (2000), Folk music, traditional music, ethnomusicology: Canadian perspectives, past and present (2007), and Marius Barbeau: Modelling twentieth-century culture (2008). He is editor of MUSICultures (formerly The Canadian Journal for Traditional Music/La Revue de musique folklorique canadienne), and his current research also includes fieldwork in the Mi'kmaw community of Eskasoni, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia.

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Book Synopsis Textual Mothers/Maternal Texts focuses on mothers as subjects and as writers who produce auto/biography, fiction, and poetry about maternity. International contributors examine the mother without child, with child, and in her multiple identities as grandmother, mother, and daughter. The collection examines how authors use textual spaces to accept, negotiate, resist, or challenge traditional conceptions of mothering and maternal roles, and how these texts offer alternative practices and visions for mothers. Further, it illuminates how textual representations both reflect and help to define or (re)shape the realities of women and families by examining how mothering and being a mother are political, personal, and creative narratives unfolding within both the pages of a book and the spaces of a life. The range of chapters maps a shift from the daughter-centric stories that have dominated the maternal tradition to the matrilineal and matrifocal perspectives that have emerged over the last few decades as the mother's voice moved from silence to speech. Contributors make aesthetic, cultural, and political claims and critiques about mothering and motherhood, illuminating in new and diverse ways how authors and the protagonists of the texts ""read"" their own maternal identities as well as the maternal scripts of their families, cultures, and nations in their quest for self-knowledge, agency, and artistic expression. Table of Contents Textual Mothers/Maternal Texts: Motherhood in Contemporary Women's Literatures edited by Elizabeth Podnieks and Andrea O'Reilly Acknowledgments Introduction: Maternal Literatures in Text and Tradition: Daughter-Centric, Matrilineal, and Matrifocal Perspectives Elizabeth Podnieks and Andrea O'Reilly Part 1: Maternal Absence 1. Aberrant, Absent, Alienated: Reading the Maternal in Jane Urquhart's First Two Novels, The Whirlpool and Changing Heaven Myrl Coulter 2. Motherless Daughters: The Absent Mothers in Margaret Atwood Nancy Peled 3. Writing about Abusive Mothers: Ethics and Auto/biography Kate Douglas 4. ""Red Mother"": The Missing Mother Plot as Double Mystery in Louise Erdrich's Fiction Sheila Hassell Hughes 5. ""This was her punishment"": Jew, Whore, Mother in the Fiction of Adele Wiseman and Lilian Nattel Ruth Panofsky Part 2: Maternal Ambivalence 6. Eden Robinson's ""Dogs in Winter"": Parodic Extremes of Mothering Nathalie Foy 7. Subverting the Saintly Mother: The Novels of Gabrielle Poulin Kathleen Kellett-Betsos 8. ""Opaque with confusion and shame"": Maternal Ambivalence in Rita Dove's Poetry Elizabeth Beaulieu 9. Maternal Blitz: Harriet Lovatt as Postpartum Sufferer in Doris Lessing's The Fifth Child Denys Landry 10. We Need to Talk about Gender: Mothering and Masculinity in Lionel Shriver's We Need to Talk about Kevin Emily Jeremiah Part 3: Maternal Agency 11. Narrating Maternal Subjectivity: Memoirs from Motherhood Joanne S. Frye 12. The Motherhood Memoir and the ""New Momism"": Biting the Hand That Feeds You Andrea O'Reilly 13. ""I had to make a future, willful, voluble, lascivious"": Minnie Bruce Pratt's Disruptive Lesbian Maternal Narratives Susan Driver 14. Lesbian Mothering in Contemporary French Literature Gill Rye 15. But She's a Mom! Sex, Motherhood, and the Poetry of Sharon Olds Rita Jones 16. (Grand)mothering ""Children of the Apocalypse"": A Post-postmodern Ecopoetic Reading of Margaret Laurence's The Diviners Di Brandt Part 4: Maternal Communication 17. Colonialism's Impact on Mothering: Jamaica Kincaid's Rendering of the Mother--Daughter Split in Annie John Nicole Willey 18. Mother to Daughter: Muted Maternal Feminism in the Fiction of Sandra Cisneros Rita Bode 19. Cracking (Mother) India Tanja Stampfl 20. Asian American Mothering in the Absence of Talk Story: Obasan and Chorus of Mushrooms Anne-Marie Lee-Loy 21. Baby, Boo-Boo, and Bobs: The Matrilineal Auto/biographies of Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald, Frances Scott Fitzgerald, and Eleanor Lanahan Elizabeth Podnieks 22. Revelations and Representations: Birth Stories and Motherhood on the Internet Kim Hensley Owens Coda: ""Stories to Live By"": Maternal Literatures and Motherhood Studies Andrea O'Reilly Notes on the Contributors Index About the Contributors Elizabeth Beaulieu (PhD) is dean of the Core Division at Champlain College in Burlington, Vermont, where she oversees the design and implementation of a new interdisciplinary curriculum. She is the author or editor of Black Women Writers and the American Neo-Slave Narrative: Femininity Unfettered (1999), The Toni Morrison Encyclopedia (2003), and Writing African American Women: An Encyclopedia of Literature by and about Women of Color (2006). Rita Bode is associate professor of English literature at Trent University in Oshawa, where she is currently serving as associate dean. Her main area of research is nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century American and British literature. She has published on the maternal presence/absence in Melville's Moby-Dick and in the writings of L. M. Montgomery. Di Brandt holds a Canada Research Chair in Canadian Literature and Creative Writing at Brandon University, Manitoba. She is the author of numerous award-winning books of poetry, essays, an opera, and a novel. Her books on mothers and mothering include: questions I asked my mother (1987), mother, not mother (1992), Wild Mother Dancing: Maternal Narrative in Canadian Literature (1993), and So This Is the World & Here I Am in It (1997). Her website address is www.dibrandt.ca. Myrl Coulter (BA, MA, PhD University of Alberta) specializes in Canadian literature and writing practices. Her writing and research interests are feminism, maternal theory, literary nonfiction, and popular culture. Her work explores writing as a highly complex process influenced by social, cultural, political, and environmental forces. Kate Douglas is a senior lecturer in the Department of English, Creative Writing and Australian Studies at Flinders University (South Australia). She is the author of Trauma Texts (with Professor Gillian Whitlock) and Contesting Childhood: Autobiography, Trauma and Memory. Susan Driver is an assistant professor in communication studies at York University. She has written Queer Girls and Popular Culture and edited the collection Queer Youth Cultures. Nathalie Foy teaches Canadian literature at the University of Toronto. Her most recent project is an examination of motherhood in contemporary Canadian fiction. Joanne S. Frye is professor emerita of English and women's studies at the College of Wooster in Ohio. Author of Living Stories, Telling Lives and Tillie Olsen: A Study of the Short Fiction, she has recently completed a memoir about her experiences as a single mother, titled Biting the Moon. Sheila Hassell Hughes is associate professor and Chair of English at the University of Dayton, Ohio. Born and raised in British Columbia, she earned her MA (English) from the University of Toronto and PhD (women's studies) from Emory University. Her research focuses on gender and religion in Louise Erdrich's work. Emily Jeremiah is a lecturer in German at Royal Holloway, University of London. She is the author of Troubling Maternity: Mothering, Agency, and Ethics in Women's Writing in German of the 1970s and 1980s. Her research interests include mothering, migration, gender, and sexuality. Rita M. Jones (PhD, Washington State University) is the director of the women's centre and affiliate faculty in women's studies at Lehigh University. She was formerly the director of women's studies at the University of Northern Colorado. Her research interests include motherhood in America and connections between feminist movement and literature. Kathleen Kellet-Betsos is associate professor in the Department of French and Spanish Languages and Literatures at Ryerson University, specializing in Franco-Canadian literature. She has published articles on authors such as Louise Maheux-Forcier, Anne Hébert, and Daniel Poliquin in various journals including Québec Studies and Studies in Canadian Literature. Denys Landry is a PhD candidate at the University of Montreal, where he also teaches English composition. His dissertation focuses on prostitution in the work of Tennessee Williams. His fields of interest include drama, American literature, gender studies, and popular culture (with special emphasis on Madonna). Anne-Marie Lee-Loy is assistant professor in the English Department at Ryerson University. Currently she is exploring how Asian Caribbean and Asian American experiences intersect. Her articles and essays have appeared in Asian Studies Review, Anthurium, The Arts Journal, and the collection The Chinese in the Caribbean. Her book Searching for Mr. Chin: Constructions of Nation and the Chinese in West Indian Literature is forthcoming with Temple University Press. Andrea O'Reilly is associate professor in the School of Women's Studies at York University. She is editor of more than 12 books, including Feminist Mothering. O'Reilly is author of Toni Morrison and Motherhood: A Politics of the Heart and Rocking the Cradle: Thoughts on Motherhood, Feminism, and the Possibility of Empowered Mothering. O'Reilly is director of the Association for Research on Mothering, the Journal of the Association for Research on Mothering, and Demeter Press. She is editor of the first ever encyclopedia on motherhood, forthcoming 2010. Kim Hensley Owens is assistant professor of writing and rhetoric at the University of Rhode Island. She recently developed and taught a graduate seminar entitled Rhetorics of/and Reproduction. Her writing appears in such journals as Written Communication and Pedagogy. Kim is currently at work on a book project focusing on the rhetorics of childbirth. Ruth Panofsky is professor of English at Ryerson University, where she specializes in Canadian literature and culture. She is the author of The Force of Vocation: The Literary Career of Adele Wiseman and At Odds in the World: Essays on Jewish Canadian Women Writers. Her volume of poetry, Laike and Nahum: A Poem in Two Voices, received the 2008 Helen and Stan Vine Canadian Jewish Book Award for Poetry. Nancy Peled PhD, teaches literature at Haifa University and coordinates the academic English program at Oranim Academic College in northern Israel. Her research interests include modern female authors and stereotypic paradigms of expression in contemporary narratives. A former Canadian, she lives on a kibbutz where she raised her four children. Elizabeth Podnieks is an associate professor in the Department of English at Ryerson University. Her teaching and research interests include mothering, life writing, modernism, and popular/celebrity culture. She is the author of Daily Modernism: The Literary Diaries of Virginia Woolf, Antonia White, Elizabeth Smart, and Anaï Nin and the co-editor of Hayford Hall: Hangovers, Erotics, and Modernist Aesthetics. Gill Rye (Phd, University College, London) is Reader at the Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies, University of London, and director of the Centre for the Study of Contemporary Women's Writing. Publications include Reading for Change, Women's Writing in Contemporary France (co-edited), and Narratives of Mothering: Women's Writing in Contemporary France. Tanja Stampfl, a native of Italy, is assistant professor in the English Department at the University of the Incarnate Word. Her research and teaching centre on the convergence of race, gender, and identity in twentieth-century postcolonial and world literature. Nicole Willey is an associate professor of English at Kent State University Tuscarawas, where she teaches African American and other literatures. Her research interests include mothering, memoir, nineteenth-century American literature, and slave narratives. She wrote Creating a New Ideal of Masculinity for American Men: The Achievement of Sentimental Women Writers in the Mid-Nineteenth Century and is currently working on a collection about motherhood memoirs.

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Book SynopsisOne Hundred Years of Social Work is the first comprehensive history of social work as a profession in English Canada. Organized chronologically, it provides a critical and compelling look at the internal struggles and debates in the social work profession over the course of a century and investigates the responses of social workers to several important events. A central theme in the book is the long-standing struggle of the professional association (the Canadian Association of Social Workers) and individual social workers to reconcile advancement of professional status with the promotion social action. The book chronicles the early history of the secularization and professionalization of social work and examines social workers roles during both world wars, the Depression, and in the era of postwar reconstruction. It includes sections on civil defence, the Cold War, unionization, social work education, regulation of the profession, and other key developments up to the end of the twentieth century. Drawing on extensive archival research as well as personal interviews and secondary literature, the authors provide strong academic evidence of a profession that has endured many important changes and continues to advocate for a just society and a responsive social welfare state. One Hundred Years of Social Work will be of interest to social workers, social work students and educators, social historians, professional associations and anyone interested in understanding the complex nature of people and institutions.Trade Review``In One Hundred Years of Social Work, the authors provide a nuanced narrative, informed by a combination of feminist theory, critical theory, and political economy. They have mined all the secondary literature and done extensive archival work as well as many interviews with living key players. This is a book of very sound scholarship.... Because the book is thoroughly documented, it will serve for many years to come as the standard book in the social work field to trace and analyze the history of social workers in the twentieth century. But the writing is jargon-free and the book should serve equally well as an important work for anyone studying the evolution of social policy in Canada or the evolution of professions in the country.'' -- Alvin Finkel, author of [http://www.wlupress.wlu.ca/Catalog/finkel.shtml Social Policy and Practice in Canada: A History (WLU Press, 2006)] -- 01/2011``One Hundred Years of Social Work is the only text that attempts to deal exclusively with the historical development of the profession. It is clearly written and represents a significant contribution to social work literature in this country.... It provides an excellent history of the CASW and it sets social work within the context of broader political and economic events that influenced and affected the development of the Canadian welfare state. Jennissen and Lundy have created a useful resource for social workers including university faculty members, students, practitioners, regulators, professional associations, and agency managers.'' -- Glen Schmidt, University of Northern British Columbia -- Labour/Le Travail, 69, Spring 2012, 08/2012``This book is essential reading for anyone interested in Canadian social policy. Through meticulous research the authors provide the first comprehensive history of social work professionalization in Canada. In telling this story they shed critical light on the ambiguous role the profession has played during both the formation and unravelling of Canada's welfare state. Centred principally on the activities of the Canadian Association of Social Workers this well-written history skilfully explores the tension between social activism and professional recognition within an occupation located at the crossroads of social justice.'' -- James Struthers, Canadian Studies Department, Trent University -- 01/2011Table of ContentsTable of Contents for One Hundred Years of Social Work: A History of the Profession in English Canada, 1900â2000 by Therese Jennissen and Colleen Lundy Preface Acknowledgements Abbreviations of Organizations and Terms Chapter One: Responding to Industrial Capitalism and Setting the Stage for Professional Social Work, 1880â1924 Child Welfare Poverty The Role of Religion Planting the Seeds of Social Work The Settelement Movement Charity Organization Societies (COS) Social Work in World War I Postwar Social Unrest and Labour Conflict Conclusion Notes Chapter Two: Pursuing Professional Status, 1924â29 The American Influence The Formative Years in Canadian Social Work Education Formation of a Canadian Social Work Association The Impact of Pursuing Professional Status Conclusion Notes Chapter Three: Face to Face with Poverty: Social Work in the Depression, 1930â9 Social Workers Respond to Unemployment and Poverty The Relief Crisis Social Workers Come under Attack Housing Conditions Stretcher Bearers or Political Activists Left-Leaning Social Workers Social Casework Challenged Developments in the CASW Conclusion Notes Chapter Four: Social Work in the War Years, 1939â45: Expansion and Consolidation Contributing to the War Effort The Continuation of Peacetime Social Work Shortage of Qualified Social Workers Growth and Consolidation in the CASW Conclusion Notes Chapter Five: Postwar Reconstruction and Civil Defence, 1940â60 Social Work and Postwar Reconstruction The Royal Commission on Dominion-Provincial Relations (Rowell-Sirois), 1937â40 Unemployment Insurance Act, 1940 Report on Social Security for Canada (Marsh Report), 1943 Advisory Committee on Health Insurance (the Heagerty Committee), 1942â43 The Committee on Housing and Community Planning (the Curtis Committee), 1944 The Family Allowances Act, 1944 The Dominion-Provincial Conference on Reconstruction, 1945 Keeping an Eye on Child Welfare Social Work and Civil Defence in Times of Peace Conclusion Notes Chapter Six: Social Work in the Cold War Era, 1940â60: Radicalism and Repression The Daycare Movement The Peace Movement The Canadian Peace Congress Social Workers for Peace The Case of Mary Jennison: A Victim of Anti-Communist Witch Hunts The RCMP âRed Listâ Conclusion Notes Chapter Seven: A Conservative Era in Social Work: The 1950s Formalizing a Code of Ethics Welfare Planning as Social Action Abolition of the Death Penalty The Doukhobor Situation Revisiting the Social Action Mandate, 1956â58 Conclusion Notes Chapter Eight: The Struggle for Workplace Improvements and Standards: The Role of Unions and Professional Associations Social Work and Unions: An Uneasy Alliance Social Workers, Staff Associations, and Unions Vulnerability of Social Workers: A Case Example Social Workers in High Demand and Short Supply Inadequate Training Salaries and Conditions of Work Social Workers Prepare to Strike Conclusion Notes Chapter Nine: Provincial Autonomy and Reorganization in the CASW, 1950â65 The âManpowerâ Crisis in Social Work Restructuring of Role and Function Provincial Autonomy The Move to Provincial Associations: British Columbia Developments in Quebec New Directions for the CASW Conclusion Notes Chapter Ten: Advancing Social Work Education, 1950â70 US Influence on Social Work Education Organizing Social Work Education in Canada The National Committee of Canadian Schools of Social Work (NCCSSW) Canadian Committee on Social Work Education (CCSWE) Canadian Council on Education and Personnel for the Social Services (CCEPSS) Social Worker Shortage and Social Welfare Workers Meeting the Challenges in Social Work Education The Unwelcoming University Conclusion Notes Chapter Eleven: Legal Regulation of Social Work: The Last Stage in Professionalization The Process of Professionalization Legal Regulation: A Troubled Relationship with the State A Patchwork of Regulatory Legislation Convincing Government and Social Work The Impact of Professionalization Conclusion Notes Chapter Twelve: Staying the Course: Choosing Professional Status over Progressive Politics Selective Responses to Government Initiatives Initiatives by Provincial Associations The CASW Critiques Its Own Responses to Government Silence on the Status of Women Housing and Urban Renewal The Absence of the CASW in Social Workersâ Political Struggles Going It Alone: Bridget Moranâs Battle with British Columbiaâs Social Credit Government Accountability and Ethics in Social Work Practice: The Warrendale Affair Exercising the Left Wing: Social Workers Promoting Social Change Conclusion Notes Chapter Thirteen: Social Work in a Declining Welfare State, 1974â2000 Cutbacks to the Welfare State and Changes in the Profession, 1974â89 Malaise in the Profession Social Work Practitioners Shift to the Left Persecution of a Left-Leaning Social Work Professor A Wholesale Attack on the Welfare State, 1989â2000 Responses from the Social Work Community Social Work Demonstrates Its Relevance Conclusion Notes Chapter Fourteen: One Hundred Years of Social Work: Looking Back and Moving Foward into the Twenty-First Century A Time of Transition Social Work Entering the Twenty-First Century: An Uncertain Time External Challenges Challenges Internal to the Profession The Ongoing Struggle to Address Our Inherent Contradictions Losing Ground in the Workplace and in Society Fragmentation of Social Work Bodies Social Work Theory and the Question of Theoretical Robustness Losing Our Historical Roots in the Peace Movement Moving Foward Fighting for Control over Our Work Returning to Our Legacy of Resistance Reinvigorating Our Theory Base Promoting Social and Economic Justice, Not Charity Note Appendix A: CASW Branches, 1927â58 Appendix B: CASW Presidents, 1926â2001 References Index

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Book SynopsisWe All Giggled tells the stories of two families that came together when the author's parents met and married in 1945. The HÃ"glins had lost most of their fortune in the course of two world wars, and the Wachendorff s had survived the Nazi years despite their Jewish ancestry. The families' roots are traced back to a vineyard in southern Germany, a jail in Geneva, the Conservatory in St. Petersburg, and the hometown of a Jewish merchant in Silesia. This engaging book centres on the author's recollections of his grandparents, his parents, and his own growing up in postwar Germany in an environment of bourgeois stability and comfort. As the author chronicles his family's ups and downs and abiding love for music, food, and art across several generations, a rich tapestry of anecdotes unfoldsâabout opera singers, restaurants, and travels, and about family relations, romance, and the kind of "impromptu reactions to people, places, and situations that often result in uncontrollable giggles."Trade Review"This book reminds us what the ideal family actually is: a collection of colourful, delightfully imperfect people who have, for better and worse, made up the music of our lives. May we all remember and honour our families with such care, respect, and willingness to giggle and forgive." -- Alison Wearing, author of Honeymoon in Purdah: An Iranian Journey -- 201011Table of ContentsTable of Contents for We All Giggled: A Bourgeois Family Memoir by Thomas O. Hueglin Thanks What This Is About Part I: The HÃ"glins 1. Tango 2. A nearly missed wedding 3. Madonnas and Buddhas 4. Diaspora 5. Les artistes 6. Nationalökonomie 7. Rhenish humour 8. Genealogy of men 9. (Some) artists again 10. The villa(s) 11. Christmas 12. Mucki 13. The Planter 14. Nemesis 15. Zauberberg 16. Varasdin on the Isar 17. NÃ"ssli mit Likör 18. The surroundings 19. Kids 20. School 21. Cars 22. The Jewish question (I) 23. Black Forest 24. From music to medicine 25. War Part II: The Wachendorffs 26. A sombre beginning 27. A macabre anniversary 28. Black stairs 29. The photographer 30. The factory director 31. The gardener 32. Tyrant and charmer 33. Possible encounter 34. Another Chile connection 35. Hattenheim 36. The Rhine 37. Freie Heimat 38. Books and poems 39. The Jewish question (II) 40. Same subject continued 41. Postscript 42. In from the cold 43. Favourite aunt 44. Hans-Erich 45. Family reunions 46. Gamelan meets baroque 47. Reborn 48. Middle names 49. Middle ground 50. Skin of our teeth 51. War again Part III: Renate and Hans 52. Presto agitato 53. Courtship 54. The crossing 55. Occupation 56. Wings 57. Degrees of separation 58. Presto agitato again 59. Interlude Part IV: Tutzing (1950s) 60. Little house on the lake 61. On the town 62. Boys and girls 63. Catholics and Communists 64. The hotel 65. Erika 66. Piano lessons 67. Music, caviar, and space 68. Star-struck 69. Beaulieu-sur-Mer 70. Disaster 71. A few months later, back to the memoir 72. Geneva 73. On the radio Part V: Munich 74. Esmeralda 75. The apartment 76. The doctor 77. The piano 78. Dallas 79. School again 80. The group 81. Girls 82. Ambach

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Book Synopsis Anne of Tim Hortons: Globalization and the Reshaping of Atlantic-Canadian Literature is a study of the work of over twenty contemporary Atlantic-Canadian writers that counters the widespread impression of Atlantic Canada as a quaint and backward place. By examining their treatment of work, culture, and history, author Herb Wyile highlights how these writers resist the image of Atlantic Canadians as improvident and regressive, if charming, folk. After an introduction that examines the current place of the region within the Canadian federation and the broader context of economic globalization, Anne of Tim Hortons explores how Atlantic-Canadian writers present a picture of the region that is much more complex and less quaint than the stereotypes through which it is typically viewed. Through the works of authors such as Michael Winter, Lisa Moore, George Elliott Clarke, Rita Joe, Frank Barry, Alistair MacLeod, and Bernice Morgan, among others, the book looks at the changing (and increasingly corporate) nature of work, the cultural diversification and subversive self-consciousness of Atlantic-Canadian literature, and Atlantic-Canadian writers' often revisionist approach to the region's history. What these writers are engaged in, the book contends, is a kind of collective readjustment of the image of the region. Rather than a marginal place stranded outside of time, Atlantic Canada in these works is very much caught up in contemporary economic, political, and cultural developments, particularly the broad sweep of economic globalization. Trade Review``[Anne of Tim Hortons] is a significant contribution to Canadian literary criticism and cultural studies for three major reasons. Firstly, its regionalist focus is thoroughly resistant to neoliberalism, using the theories of space À la Edward Soja and David Harvey. It problematizes, in the manner of Ian McKay and James Overton, nostalgia for 'folk' culture and themes--often driven by tourist dollars and Central Canadian chauvinism. It astutely explores the multiple ways in which so much contemporary literature of Atlantic Canada imaginatively contests the negative dictates of globalized capital. All of these approaches simultaneously allow Wyile to foreground and focus upon what is culturally distinct about each of his selected literary examples.... Secondly, the book's multidisciplinary introduction, like the framing political-economic, historical, and cultural material and analyses for each of the literary works under study, can serve as exemplary models for materialist, politically engaged critiques of other contemporary Canadian and postcolonial literatures.... Thirdly.... time will tell to what extent Anne of Tim Hortons is recognized as an indispensable canary in the coalmine for Atlantic Canadians and Canadian cultures.'' -- David Leahy -- Canadian Literature, 214, Autumn 2012, 201305``When you have one of the best Canadian literature book titles of the last several decades on your cover there is the danger that the contents will not live up to it. Herb Wyile more than delivers on the title's promise. This engaging and lively discussion of contemporary Atlantic-Canadian literature offers far more than an explication of the ideology that situates a fictional creation, the world-famous girl with the ginger hair, within a network of commodities that also contains Canada's favourite doughnut store chain. Simply put, Wyile's impassioned study reminds us why literature matters in neoliberal times. It matters because, as Wyile demonstrates repeatedly, literature can explore the human costs of living in a time of unfettered free-market economics in subtle and creative ways that render visible ambiguities as well as social and material inequities.... The book's introduction offers a compelling synthesis of theory about neoliberalism and globalization, as well as an energetic discussion of how and why contemporary Atlantic-Canadian writers understand and contest the political, economic, and cultural realities that surround them.... Wyile's study is a convincing analysis of a literature that articulates and reshapes the cultural and economic effects of globalization in a region that is often considered to be off the map, behind the times, or, at the very least, marginal to the centres of power. Equally impressive and significant is the confidence and clarity of the prose style: here is a book that is written out of a deep feeling for and extensive knowledge about the literary culture and social history of the four provinces. And that--quite apart from the seduction of the catchy title and the shock of red hair adorning the cover of the book--is the reason why Anne of Tim Hortons is such an absorbing study to read.'' -- Danielle Fuller, University of Birmingham -- English Studies in Canada, 38.2, 201306``One of the most striking revelations of Anne of Tim Hortons is the parallel paths of contemporary Atlantic Canadian literature and historiography. The work Wyile surveys reinforces the conclusions of the Acadiensis school of regional history. This school--ably represented by such historians as E.R. Forbes, David Frank, and Margaret Conrad--has consistently challenged the myth of Maritime conservatism. Through their studies of such topics as the feminist movement in late nineteenth-century Halifax, labour disputes in the Cape Breton coal fields, and regional cooperation among provincial governments in the 1950s and 1960s, the Acadiensis school has shown that the Maritimes was not the home of an entrenched conservatism, and was instead often at the forefront of adopting radical solutions to social, economic, and political problems. This is a historiography with which Wyile is well acquainted, for although his is clearly a work of literary analysis, he has thoroughly grounded in the region's history his study of the representations of Atlantic Canada in contemporary fiction.... Anne of Tim Hortons is an excellent overview of the ways that recent English-language Atlantic Canadian literature has challenged the myth of the idyllic, antimodern region to which so many continue to adhere. Well written and engaging, this study provides a convincing account of neoliberalism's impact on Atlantic Canadian fiction that is thoroughly situated in the region's history and historiography. This is a welcome addition to work on the region's literature, and would be equally at home in classes on Atlantic Canadian culture and Atlantic Canadian literature.'' -- Corey Slumkoski, Mount Saint Vincent University -- H-Canada, H-Net Reviews, May 2014, 201406``Anyone interested in Canadian literature or Atlantic Canadian culture will welcome this excellent overview of the re-imagining of Atlantic Canada. Indeed, given its engagement with political economy and especially of region, I can imagine many geographers (of whatever region) and political theorists (of whatever sphere) finding interest in its careful articulation of literature and non-literary theory. No decent university library will be without it; anyone remotely in the field should own it.'' -- Daniel Samson, Brock University, author of The Spirit of Industry andImprovement: Liberal Government and Rural-Industrial Society,Nova Scotia, 1790â1862 (2008)``In Anne of Tim Hortons Herb Wyile makes a compelling and sometimes provocative argument about the effects of globalization on Atlantic-Canadian literature, for despite its economic and political problems, Atlantic Canada is a remarkably vital area of literary activity, with many prize-winning novels and internationally respected authors. Regionalism is at its best in Wyile's book, which should be read by anyone interested in Canadian literature.'' -- Tracy Ware, Queen's UniversityTable of Contents Anne of Tim Hortons: Globalization and the Reshaping of Atlantic-Canadian Literature by Herb Wyile List of Illustrations Acknowledgments 1: Introduction: ""Now Our Masters Have No Borders"" Section One: I'se the Bye That Leaves the Boats: The Changing World of Work 2: Sucking the Mother Dry: The Fisheries 3: ""Acceptable Levels of Risk"": Mining and Offshore Oil 4: Uncivil Servitude: The Service Sector Conclusion to Section One Section Two: ""About as Far From Disneyland as You Can Possibly Get"": The Reshaping of Culture 5: The Simpler and More Colourful Way of Life"" 6: Rebuffing the Gaze Conclusion to Section Two Section Three: The Age of Sale: History, Globalization, and Commodification 7: ""A 'Sea-Change' of Sorts"": Newfoundland and Labrador 8: ""A Place that Didn't Count Any More"": The Maritimes Conclusion to Section Three Conclusion: Speculative Fiction for the Rest of the Country? Notes Works Cited Photo Credits Index

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Book SynopsisFor Canada the last century was one of great social and economic change: an increasingly urban population witnessed shifts from an agricultural to a mixed economy and from moderate to greater wealth. Heick chronicles how changing attitudes toward butter and margarine reflected the nature of that society. He demonstrates how the ban on the manufacture, importation, and sale of margarine was instigated in 1986 at the behest of the nascent, yet influential diary industry, particularly in Ontario. This ban was based on the premise that margarine was not a pure food. Despite the lifting of the ban in 1918 - 23, margarine would only appear as a permanent fixture of the Canadian food spectrum after World War II. The author contends that post-World War II urbanization, and a desire to enjoy a more prosperous life after wartime stringencies, were instrumental in this change. It was increasingly difficult for the Canadian diary industry to meet the nation's growing dairy requirements. Margarine was no longer viewed as impure; in fact it was now recognized as being a wholesome food and substitute for butter. Heick's important study of the Canadian butter/margarine competition brings to light how the lengthy debate manifested itself in political, economic and social milieux.Trade Review``Offers some interesting stories about Canadian responses to margarine and provides insight into the struggle for the loyalties of consumers and governments.'' -- Ontario History

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Book SynopsisOntario Boys explores the preoccupation with boyhood in Ontario during the immediate postwar period, 1945-1960. It argues that a traditional version of boyhood was being rejuvenated in response to a population fraught with uncertainty, and suffering from insecurity, instability, and gender anxiety brought on by depression-era and wartime disruptions in marital, familial, and labour relations, as well as mass migration, rapid postwar economic changes, the emergence of the Cold War, and the looming threat of atomic annihilation. In this sociopolitical and cultural context, concerned adults began to cast the fate of the postwar world onto children, in particular boys.In the decade and a half immediately following World War II, the version of boyhood that became the ideal was one that stressed selflessness, togetherness, honesty, fearlessness, frank determination, and emotional toughness. It was thought that investing boys with this version of masculinity was essential if they were to grow into the kind of citizens capable of governing, protecting, and defending the nation, and, of course, maintaining and regulating the social order.Drawing on a wide variety of sources, Ontario Boys demonstrates that, although girls were expected and encouraged to internalize a ""special kind"" of citizenship, as caregivers and educators of children and nurturers of men, the gendered content and language employed indicated that active public citizenship and democracy was intended for boys. An ""appropriate"" boyhood in the postwar period became, if nothing else, a metaphor for the survival of the nation.Trade Review"Christopher Greig sheds fresh light on our understanding of the making, from the late 1940s to the early 1960s, of a recurrent crisis in boyhood. Greig sees this as an illusionary extension of the wider 'crisis in masculinity,' ubiquitous in popular media and professional discourse since the end of the Second World War. 'Ontario Boys' presents a lucid and insightful examination of ideal boyhood models based on simplistic and neoliberal notions in the postwar era of togetherness, teamwork, loyalty, physical health, and boyhood heroism. He contrasts these with popular fears of delinquent juvenile males, who often sought the leadership provided by boys' clubs and Boy Scout movements as an alternative to gang associations. This book offers thoughtful critique of the fears every era manufactures for the overall well-being and vigour of its boyhood-to-manhood maturation processes. It will provoke us to consider that the alarm sirens ringing today for the so-called 'forgotten children' of our schools and local communities, boys failing to succeed according to standards others set, are part of a continuing angst across Ontario and throughout modern societies generally." -- Robert Rutherdale, Algoma University, co-editor, with Magda Fahrni, of 'Creating Postwar Canada: Community, Diversity, and Dissent, 1945-1975' (2009) and author of 'Hometown Horizons: Local Responses to Canada's Great War' (2004)"Ontario Boys represents a valuable contribution to the literature on boyhood.... It not only provides scholars with several strong arguments on how masculinity shapes our understanding of boyhood, but it does so in an engaging and well-written manner." -- Jason Reid, Ryerson University -- Historical Studies in Education, 26, 2, Fall 2014, 201506Table of Contents Ontario Boys: Masculinity and the Idea of Boyhood in Postwar Ontario, 1945-1960, by Christopher J. Greig Introduction: Approaching Boyhood in Postwar Ontario Chapter 1: Home, Family, Citizenship: Shaping the Boyhood Ideal Chapter 2: One for All: Teamwork and the Boyhood Ideal Chapter 3: One above All: The Heroic Ideal in Boyhood Chapter 4: Dissonant Ideas: Other Boyhoods Chapter 5: Changes and Continuities: Historic and Contemporary Boyhood Ideals Chapter 6: Conclusion: Making Ontario Boys, 1945-1960 Notes References and Sources Index

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Book SynopsisA Brief History of Women in Quebec examines the historical experience of women of different social classes and origins (geographic, ethnic, and racial) from the period of contact between Europeans and Aboriginals to the twenty-first century to give a nuanced and complex account of the main transformations in their lives.Themes explored include demography, such as marriage, fecundity, and immigration; women's work outside and inside the home, including motherhood; education, from elementary school to post-secondary and access to the professions; the impact of religion and government policies; and social and political activism, including feminism and struggles to attain equality with men. Early chapters deal with New France and the first part of the nineteenth century, and the remaining are devoted to the period since 1880, an era in which women's lives changed rapidly and dramatically.The book concludes that transformation in the means of production, women's social and political activism (including feminism), and Quebec nationalism are three main keys to understanding the history of Quebec women. Together, the three show that women's history, far from being an adjunct to ""general history,"" is essential to a full understanding of the past. Originally published in French with the title Brève histoire des femmes au Québec. Table of Contents A Brief History of Women in Quebec by Denyse Baillargeon and translated by W. Donald Wilson Introduction 1. Amerindian and French Women during the French Colonial Period 2. The Early Years of British Rule (1780-1840) 3. A Society on the Path to Industrialization (1840-1880) 4. A New Capitalist Industrial Order (1880-1920) 5. Women in a ""Modern"" Society (1920-1940) 6. A Society Undergoing Profound Transformation (1940-1965) 7. The Feminist Revolution (1966-1989) 8. Women in a Neoliberal Society (1990-2012) Conclusion Selected Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe 16th and 17th-century Iberian Atlantic was a turbulent world of adventurers, transatlantic slave trade, forced conversion to Catholicism, and underground societies. Africans and converted Jews were persecuted by the Inquisition. This book draws on protocols of the inquisition to create a panorama of the lives of free and enslaved people from Europe and Africa to Central and South America, including Conversos and freed Africans who were business partners and rivals, some involved in clandestine relations between dominated groups.”Trade Review“... a real tour-de-force. ... an entirely new approach in the field.” —Reviews in History

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