age ~47
from Lexington, NC
Nellie Letitia McClung (1873-1951) is recognized as a key figure in Canadian history as well as Canadian literature. Her two-volume autobiography provides a remarkable and very readable account of a truly extraordinary life. McClung is best known for her involvement in the 1929 "Person's Case," in w...
Binding
Paperback
Pages
544
Publisher
University of Toronto Press, Higher Education Division
ISBN #
1551115727
EAN Code
9781551115726
ISBN #
10
From sentimental stories about polio to the latest cherub in hospital commercials, sick children tug at the public’s heartstrings. However sick children have not always had adequate medical care or protection. The essays in Children’s Issues in Historical Perspective investigate the identification,...
Binding
Paperback
Pages
568
Publisher
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
ISBN #
0889204748
EAN Code
9780889204744
ISBN #
8
E. Pauline Johnson (Tekahionwake) was a Native advocate of part-Mohawk ancestry, an independent woman during the period of first-wave feminism, a Canadian nationalist who also advocated strengthening the link to imperial England, a popular and versatile prose writer, and one of modern Canada's best-...
Author
E. Pauline Johnson
Binding
Paperback
Pages
336
Publisher
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
ISBN #
0802084974
EAN Code
9780802084972
ISBN #
6
Children and youth occupy important social and political roles, even as they sleep in cribs or hang out on street corners. Conceptualized as either harbingers or saboteurs of a bright, secure tomorrow, young people have motivated many adult-driven plans to improve their communities' future. But have...
Binding
Paperback
Pages
272
Publisher
UBC Press
ISBN #
0774816872
EAN Code
9780774816878
ISBN #
2
Nellie McClung's fourth book, In Times Like These, written in 1915, survives as a classic formulation of a feminist position. With hard-hitting rhetoric it demands women's rights as a logical extension of traditional views of female moral superiority and maternal responsibility.
Author
Nellie Lillian McClung
Binding
Paperback
Pages
129
Publisher
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
ISBN #
0802061257
EAN Code
9780802061256
ISBN #
5
Veronica Strong-Boag, Ph.D, FRSC (born in Prestwick, Scotland in 1947) is a Canadian historian specializing in the modern history of women and children in Canada.