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- Title
« La maman est l'économe de la maison »: la Ligue ouvrière catholique et la consommation quotidienne au Québec, 1939-1954.
- Authors
BRISEBOIS, MARILYNE
- Abstract
This paper analyzes the representations of consumerism by the Ligue ouvrière catholique in Quebec between 1939 and 1954 through the lens of gender, class and religious. Based on a close reading of the Ligue's newspapers Le Mouvement ouvrier (1939-1944) and Le Front ouvrier (1944-1954), the analysis seeks to illustrate the importance of sound consumer practices in solving what was perceived at the time as a moral and material crisis for working-class families. Developed by the women's Ligue membership, the discourse was targeted at housewives, seen as the key agents of change in their families.
- Subjects
QUEBEC (Province); CONSUMERISM; CATHOLIC associations; HOUSEWIVES as consumers; WORKING class; HOUSEHOLD budgets; CATHOLIC Church &; social problems; CONSUMPTION (Economics) -- Religious aspects; CATHOLIC Church; TWENTIETH century; HISTORY; CHRISTIANITY; ECONOMIC history; SOCIAL history
- Publication
Revue d'Histoire de l'Amérique Française, 2016, Vol 70, Issue 1/2, p139
- ISSN
0035-2357
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.7202/1038292ar