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Graduate Program in History

Jennifer Stephen

Degrees:  Ph.D 2000History, University of Toronto.
M.A. 1995. History, University of Toronto


B.A. Honours 1989, History, Queen's University

 

Current Position:  Assistant Professor
 
Recent Publications: Pick one intelligent girl’: Employability, Domesticity and the Gendering of Canada’s Welfare State, 1939-1947. University of Toronto Press, 2007.

“Balancing Equality for the Post-War Woman: Demobilising Canada’s Women Workers after World War Two.” Atlantis: A Women’s Studies Journal/ Revue d’etudes sur les femmes 31.3 (Fall 2007), 122-32. 10 pp.

 

“In Dialogue with Ruth Pierson: Theory, Method and Writing New Histories.” Atlantis: A Women’s Studies Journal/ Revue d’etudes sur les femmes Special Issue Two (Fall 2004).

The ‘Incorrigible,’ the ‘Bad,’ and the ‘Immoral’: Toronto’s ‘Factory Girls’ and the Work of the Toronto Psychiatric Clinic, 1918-1923”, in Louis Knafla and Susan Binnie, eds., Law, State and Society: Essays in Modern Legal History. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1995.

 

The ‘Incorrigible,’ the ‘Bad,’ and the ‘Immoral’: Toronto’s ‘Factory Girls’ and the Work of the Toronto Psychiatric Clinic, 1918-1923”, in Louis Knafla and Susan Binnie, eds., Law, State and Society: Essays in Modern Legal History. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1995.

 


Courses taught recently:

 

AS/HIST 1050 6.0 Life, Love and Labour An Introduction to Social and Cultural History


AS/HIST 4555 6.0 State, Nation and Economy: Twentieth Century Canada


AS/HIST 3580 6.0 Twentieth Century Canada


GS/HIST 5175 3.0 Citizens, Historians, and the State: Writing the History of the Welfare State


 

Research Interests:

Twentieth-century Canadian social, political and economic history; comparative welfare state history.