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By examining the underside of a staid and repressive society, Andree Levesque reveals an alternate and more accurate history of women and sexual politics in early twentieth-century Quebec.

As the authors write, 'We tell a story because only a story can expose the real workings of a culture, and only a story can express our protest against time.'

This study uncovers a little known dimension of Canadian social history and shows that moral reform was not the project of a marginal puritanical group but was central to the race, class, and gender organization of modern English Canada.

A Fishery for Modern Times examines the ways in which the state, ideologies of development, and political, economic, and social factors, along with political actors and fishing company owners, contributed to the expansion of the industrial fishery from the 1930s through the 1960s.