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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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Published in:Canadian Historical Review Vol. 83; no. 4; pp. 483 - 505
Main Author: Fahrni, Magda
Format: Article
Published: University of Toronto Press Dec2002
Subjects:
Consumers
Citizenship
Prices
Political participation
Québec (Province)
Montréal (Québec)
Canada
Online Access:View this record in EBSCOhost
Summary: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.