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Authors: Valerie J. Korinek
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2000-01-01 - Publisher: University of Toronto Press

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Korinek shows that rather than promoting domestic perfection, Chatelaine did not cling to the stereotypes of the era, but instead forged ahead, providing women
Gender, Health, and Popular Culture
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Pages: 438
Authors: Cheryl Krasnick Warsh
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-07-07 - Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press

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Health is a gendered concept in Western cultures. Customarily it is associated with strength in men and beauty in women. This gendered concept was transmitted t
Sisters Or Strangers
Language: en
Pages: 442
Authors: Franca Iacovetta
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004-01-01 - Publisher: University of Toronto Press

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Spanning two hundred years of history from the nineteenth century to the 1990s, Sisters or Strangers? explores the complex lives of immigrant, ethnic, and racia
Gatekeepers
Language: en
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Authors: Franca Iacovetta
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An in-depth study of European immigrants to Canada during the Cold War, Gatekeepers explores the interactions among these immigrants and the “gatekeepers”�
Fighting Fat
Language: en
Pages: 450
Authors: Wendy Mitchinson
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-10-11 - Publisher: University of Toronto Press

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While the statistics for obesity have been alarming in the twenty-first century, concern about fatness has a history. In Fighting Fat, Wendy Mitchinson discusse