{"product_id":"radical-housewives-price-wars-and-food-politics-in-mid-twentieth-century-canada-paperback-softback-9781487521813","title":"Radical Housewives; Price Wars and Food Politics in Mid-Twentieth-Century Canada (Paperback \/ softback) 9781487521813","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eRadical Housewives\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003ePrice Wars and Food Politics in Mid-Twentieth-Century Canada\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJulie Guard (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781487521813\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 22 February 2019\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e312 pages, 25 b\u0026amp;w illustrations\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.5 cm, 0.46 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"In her book, Guard tells a fascinating story of this little-known but very influential movement in mid-twentieth-century Canada.\" \u003c\/p\u003e - Joel Trono-Doerksen (\u003cem\u003eCanada\u0026amp;#x2019;s History\u003c\/em\u003e)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eRadical Housewives\u003c\/i\u003e is a history of Canada\u0026amp;#x2019;s Housewives Consumers Association. This association was a community-based women\u0026amp;#x2019;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\u0026amp;#x2019; interests rather than just those of business while popularizing socialist solutions to the economic crises of the Great Depression and the immediate postwar years. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJulie Guard's exhaustive research, including archival research and interviews with twelve former Housewives, recovers a history of women\u0026amp;#x2019;s social justice activism in an era often considered dormant and adds a Canadian dimension to the history of politicized consumerism and of politicized materialism.  \u003ci\u003eRadical Housewives\u003c\/i\u003e reinterprets the view of postwar Canada as economically prosperous and reveals the left\u0026amp;#x2019;s role in the origins of the food security movement. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eList of Illustrations\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Price War: Housewives Organize in the Great Depression\u003cbr\u003e2 Housewife-Patriots and Wartime Price Controls\u003cbr\u003e3 Fighting for the Working Class: The Struggle for Postwar Price Controls\u003cbr\u003e4 Mothers, Breadwinners, and Citizens\u003cbr\u003e5 Citizen Consumers or Kitchen Communists?\u003cbr\u003e6 \"Reds,\" Housewives, and the Cold War\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52595498352920,"sku":"9781487521813","price":22.25,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/radical-housewives-price-wars-and-food-politics-in-mid-twentieth-century-canada-paperback-softback-9781487521813","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}