Source Saturday: Dr. Amy Shaw and “Making the Best of It: Canadian Women during World War Two”

Dr. Amy Shaw discusses her co-edited collection on women and girls in Canada and Newfoundland during WW2. *Dr. Shaw underscores that by listening to the women themselves – the archival sources and oral histories that are available – we can complicate the ways we understand wartime for women in Canada and Newfoundland. We also talk about a photograph from the Royal Canadian Navy and how camaraderie and safety was presented to young women and their parents as being aspects of military service.
Buy the book here: https://www.ubcpress.ca/making-the-best-of-it
More about Amy: Amy Shaw is an associate professor in the Department of History at the University of Lethbridge and a research associate with the Laurier Centre for Military, Strategic, and Disarmament Studies. She is the author of Crisis of Conscience: Conscientious Objection in Canada during the First World War and coeditor of A Sisterhood of Suffering and Service: Women and Girls of Canada and Newfoundland during the First World War.
Learn more about me at https://www.SamanthaCutrara.com/
Order Transforming the Canadian History Classroom: Imagining a New ‘We’: 
https://www.amazon.com/Transforming-Canadian-History-Classroom-Imagining/dp/0774862831
https://www.ubcpress.ca/transforming-the-canadian-history-classroom
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