Family & Relationships General
The Infinite Bonds of Family
Domesticity in Canada, 1850-1940
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press
- Initial publish date
- May 1999
- Category
- General, Women's Studies, Marriage & Family
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780802079299
- Publish Date
- May 1999
- List Price
- $32.95
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9780802009647
- Publish Date
- May 1999
- List Price
- $76.00
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781442681491
- Publish Date
- Jun 1999
- List Price
- $77.00
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Description
The history of the family is a relatively new, yet rapidly developing area of academic study. With this book, Cynthia Comacchio presents the first historical overview of domestic life in Canada.
According to Comacchio, the social anxiety resulting from an ongoing perception of the family as being 'in crisis' has had a significant influence on evolving social policy. Comacchio shows how families have both changed and remained the same, through transitions brought about by urbanization, industrialization, and war. Her many stories of individual families highlight both historical trends and the more intimate issues related to race, gender, class, region, and age.
This is the only synthesis to date of the historical literature on Canadian families. Designed for students at graduate and undergraduate levels, it not only introduces the key concepts and approaches of a developing field of study, but also summarizes the major issues and trends that affected Canadian families from 1850 to1940.
About the author
Cynthia Comacchio's research focuses on the history of children/childhood and youth in Canada, late 19th to 21st centuries. She is the author of numerous articles and books, including The Dominion of Youth: Adolescence and the Making of a Modern Canada, 1920-50 (WLU Press, 2008) and Ring Around the Maple: Settler Children in Canada, Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (WLU Press, 2024).
Other titles by
Ring Around the Maple
A Sociocultural History of Children and Childhoods in Canada, 19th and 20th Centuries
Ring Around the Maple
A Sociocultural History of Children and Childhoods in Canada, 19th and 20th Centuries
A War Guest in Canada
A War Guest in Canada
The Dominion of Youth
Adolescence and the Making of Modern Canada, 1920 to 1950
Children in English-Canadian Society
Framing the Twentieth-Century Consensus
Nations are Built of Babies
Saving Ontario's Mothers and Children, 1900-1940