Making the Best of It

Introduction: Community, Memory, and Historical Precedent / Sarah Glassford and Amy Shaw

Part 1: Women, Children, and the War

1 The Small Spaces of Childhood: Learning How to Feel in Atlantic Canada, 1939–45 / Barbara Lorenzkowski

2 Fostering Friendships: Canadian Girlhood and the Evacuation of British Children to Canada / Claire L. Halstead

3 Casualties of War: Children, Mothers, and Wartime Day Nurseries / Lisa Pasolli

4 Civic Identities in Conflict: Montreal's Anglophone and Francophone Private School Girls / Lisa Moore

Part 2: Women and the War at Home

5 “A Token Jew Everywhere”: Canadian Jewish Women on the Home Front / Jennifer Shaw

6 Shopping to Win the War: Female Consumers and Canada’s Home Front / Graham Broad

7 Mrs. Consumer Goes to War: The Consumer Branch and Economic Policy Making / Joseph Tohill

Part 3: Women and Overseas Humanitarian Work

8 Responding to “War’s Havoc”: The Relief Work of Mennonite Women / Marlene Epp

9 “It Keeps Our Spirits Up”: Emotional Labour and Resilience in the Canadian Red Cross Corps Overseas Detachment, 1943–47 / Sarah Glassford

Part 4: Women in Wartime Nursing, Paid War Work, and the Armed Forces

10 “War Comes to Labrador”: Nursing on the Home Front / Heidi Coombs

11 They Died so That Men May Fight: Depictions of Female Military War Dead / Sarah Hogenbirk

12 “Keep Your Mind on Your Job”: Women Workers, Beauty Culture, and Dangerous Bodies in the Wartime Industrial Workplace / Sarah Van Vugt

Conclusion: Making the Best of It / Sarah Glassford and Amy Shaw

Selected Bibliography; Index