Las mujeres y la Guerra: La Segunda Guerra Mundial en Quebec

Abstract

This text shows how the economic, legal, political, and social progress granted to women in Quebec during the Second World War was used as propaganda to motivate women to participate in the war effort. This effort, however, was not accompanied by any progress on the issue of women and the place of feminism in society. French-Canadian Catholic nationalism assigned to women the responsibility for reproduction to ensure the survival of the French-Canadian race in an English-majority country, with an emphasis on maternity, and domestic work, emphases which manifested themselves in post-war policies aimed at confining women to the family home.