Roughing It in the Suburbs

by Korinek, Valerie J.

• ISBN13: 9780802041807
• ISBN10: 0802041809
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-11-01
• Publisher: Univ of Toronto Pr

Summary

Korinek shows that rather than promoting domestic perfection, Chatelaine did not cling to the stereotypes of the era, but instead forged ahead, providing women with a variety of images, ideas, and critiques of women?s role in society.

Author Biography

Valerie J. Korinek is Professor in the Department of History at the University of Saskatchewan. She is a specialist in the areas of Canadian cultural and gender history as well as post World War II Canada.

Table of Contents

Illustrations	ix
Acknowledgments	xiii
`Lighting Up a Brush Fire'	3	(28)
Part One: Historicizing Production and Consumption
`A Closet Feminist Magazine': (Re)-Making Chatelaine	31	(40)
`A Faithful Friend and Tonic': Reading Chatelaine	71	(34)
Part Two: Traditional Fare?
`Your Best Medium to Sell Women': Covering and Advertising Chatelaine	105	(73)
`The Cinderella from Pugwash': Advice from the Chatelaine Institute	178	(42)
`Searching for a Plain Gold Band': Chatelaine Fiction	220	(37)
Part Three: Subverting the Standard
`How to Live in the Suburbs': Editorials and Articles in the Fifties	257	(51)
`Trying to Incite a Revolution': Editorials and Articles in the Sixties	308	(58)
`Here in the Lodge': Chatelaine's Legacy	366	(11)
Notes	377	(58)
Select Bibliography	435	(12)
Index	447