Radical housewives

price wars and food politics in mid-twentieth-century Canada

A history of Canada's Housewives Consumers Association which operated in the twentieth century.

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Title Statement	Radical housewives: price wars and food politics in mid-twentieth-century Canada / Julie Guard.
Series	Studies in gender and history ;47
Author	Guard, Julie, 1952-
Publication	©2019Toronto: University of Toronto Press,[2019]
Extent of Item	x, 298 pages
ISBN	1487521812 (pbk.) 9781487521813 (pbk.)
Other Number	3240245
Contents	Price war : housewives organize in the Great Depression -- Housewife-patriots and wartime price controls -- Fighting for the working class : the struggle for postwar price controls -- Mothers, breadwinners, and citizens -- Citizen consumers or kitchen communists? -- "Reds," housewives, and the Cold War.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references, Internet addresses and index.
Summary	A history of Canada's Housewives Consumers Association which operated in the twentieth century.
By Topic	Price regulation--History--20th century--Canada
	Cost and standard of living--History--20th century--Canada
	Food--Political aspects--History--20th century--Canada
	Women--Political activity--History--20th century--Canada
	Housewives--Political activity--History--20th century--Canada
	Social justice--History--20th century--Canada
	Consumer movements--History--20th century--Canada
By Name	Housewives Consumers Association--History--20th century