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Magda Fahrni, Household Politics: Montreal Families and Postwar Reconstruction (Toronto: University of Toronto Press 2005)
MAGDA FAHRNI's STUDY of Montreal families is the latest in a series of studies which have forced a re-thinking of the post-World War Two period in Canada. In it, she extends and deepens our understanding of the connection between the personal and the political as revealed in what she terms "household politics." q-he author takes us to Montreal in the period from the last few months of the war to 1949 and tests how well our preconceptions of the period stand up to a sustained examination. She shows that the immediate post-war period was not necessarily a time of prosperity; in fact many returning veterans struggled to find employment and decent housing for their families. Nor did those families all fit the ideal nuclear model; some had to incorporate children born as a result of wartime infidelity, some were single-parent families, others included grandparents and siblings. She debunks also the image of the stereotypically large Quebec family. Yet, she argues, "visions of family were central... |
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