A Diversity of Women: Women in Ontario Since 1945

by Joy Parr

Our perception of women's roles has changed dramatically since 1945. In this collection Joy Parr has brought together ten studies from a variety of disciplines examining changing ideas about women.

Mariana Valverde writes about teenage girls in the immediate postwar years and finds that stereotypes of a supposedly simple, secure, politically quiescent, and sexually conformist life do not really hold. Joy Parr follows women shoppers of the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802076955
• ISBN13: 9780802076953
• Release Date: June 1995
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 335 Pages
• Weight: 1.28 lbs.
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher