{"product_id":"respectable-citizens-lara-a-campbell-9780802096692","title":"Respectable Citizens: Gender, Family, and Unemployment in Ontario's Great Depression","description":"\u003cp\u003eHigh unemployment rates, humiliating relief policy, and the spectre of eviction characterized the experiences of many Ontario families in the Great Depression.\u003cem\u003e Respectable Citizens\u003c\/em\u003e is an examination of the material difficulties and survival strategies of families facing poverty and unemployment, and an analysis of how collective action and protest redefined the meanings of welfare and citizenship in the 1930s.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLara Campbell draws on diverse sources including newspapers, family and juvenile court records, premiers' papers, memoirs, and oral histories to uncover the ways in which the material workings of the family and the discursive category of 'respectable' citizenship were invested with gendered obligations and Anglo-British identity. \u003cem\u003eRespectable Citizens\u003c\/em\u003e demonstrates how women and men represented themselves as entitled to make specific claims on the state, shedding new light on the cooperative and conflicting relationships between men and women, parents and children, and citizen and state in 1930s Canada.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Lara A. Campbell\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0802096697\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780802096692\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Toronto Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/01\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.10lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChronicle of Higher Education\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/08\/2010 pg. 18","brand":"Lara A. Campbell","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48448963641599,"sku":"9780802096692","price":45.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_75a1d767-003f-4039-9155-b0a20e6892cf.jpg?v=1777261366","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/respectable-citizens-lara-a-campbell-9780802096692","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}