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Counting the Costs of Living: Gender, Citizenship, and a Politics of Prices in 1940s Montreal.

Explores the ways in which women in Montreal, Quebec drew on a sense of economic citizenship cultivated over the war years to organize around consumer issues in the immediate postwar period. Demand by Montreal residents for the ability to purchase household necessities at reasonable prices; Montrea...

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Publicado en:Canadian Historical Review Vol. 83; no. 4; pp. 483 - 505
Autor principal: Fahrni, Magda
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: University of Toronto Press Dec2002
Materias:
Consumers
Citizenship
Prices
Political participation
Québec (Province)
Montréal (Québec)
Canada
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Sumario:Explores the ways in which women in Montreal, Quebec drew on a sense of economic citizenship cultivated over the war years to organize around consumer issues in the immediate postwar period. Demand by Montreal residents for the ability to purchase household necessities at reasonable prices; Montrealers' awareness of their rights of economic citizenship; Examination of equity of rationing.