Making and Breaking the Rules: Women in Quebec, 1919-1939

by Andrée Lévesque

During the interwar period, Quebec was a strongly patriarchal society, where men in the Church, politics, and medicine, maintained a traditional norm of social and sexual standards that women were expected to abide by. Some women in the media and religious communities were complicit with this vision, upholding the "ideal" as the norm and tending to those "deviants" who failed to meet society's expectations. By examining the underside of a staid and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0771052839
• ISBN13: 9780771052835
• Release Date: April 1994
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 170 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.1" x 8.0"