[PDF.16lu] Making and Breaking the Rules: Women in Quebec, 1919-1939 (Canadian Social History Series)

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 repressive society,...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.Making and Breaking the Rules: Women in Quebec, 1919-1939 (Canadian Social History Series)   |  Andree Levesque. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.