Contemporary Quebec : selected readings and commentaries / edited by Michael D. Behiels and Matthew Hayday. - Montréal : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2011. - viii, 797 p. ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references.

The Duplessis interregnum: a conundrum. Duplessis: Quebec turns right / Provincial autonomy and the defence of the liberal state / Jacques Rouillard -- Jules Duchastel. section 1. L'état providence: origins and development. The language of children's rights, the formation of the welfare state, and the democratic experience of poor families in Quebec, 1940-55 / Constituting "post-welfare state" welfare arrangements: the role of women's movement service groups in Quebec / Dominique Marshall -- Dominique Masson. section 2. Catholicism in quebec: confronting modernity. Student leaders at the University of Montreal from 1950 to 1958: beyond the "Carabin Persona" / From rechristianization to contestation: Catholic values and Quebec society, 1931-1970 / Nicole Neatby -- Michael Gauvreau. section 3. Quebec's "quiet revolution": rupture and/or continuity. Georges-Henri Lévesque: father of Quebec's lucid integration into confederation, 1930-1962 / Quebec quiet revolution: a noisy evolution / Michael D. Behiels -- Donald Cuccioletta and Martin Lubin. section 4. The FLQ crisis. The October Crisis of 1970: human rights abuses under the War Measures Act / Apprehended insurrection? RCMP Intelligence and the October Crisis / Dominique Clément -- Reg Whitaker. section 5. Organized labour: class, nation, and politics. Major changes in the Confederation des travailleurs catholiques du Canada, 1940-1960 / "Rapprocher les lieux du pouvoir": the Quebec labour movement and Quebec sovereigntism, 1960-2000 / Jacques Rouillard -- Ralph P. Güntzel. section 6. Women, gender, and sexuality. Quebecoises deboutte! Nationalism and feminism in Quebec, 1969-75 / Yvettes as the expression of a federalist feminism in Quebec / Nationalism and social movement politics: gay and lesbian rights and the effect of the Canadian charter of rights and freedoms in Quebec / Sean Mills -- Stéphanie Godin -- Miriam Smith. section 7. The politics of language. Rights in conflict: contemporary disputes over language policy in Quebec / Bilingualism versus unilingualism: federal and provincial language education policies in Quebec, 1960-85 / C. Michael MacMillan -- Matthew Hayday. section 8. Ethnocultural communities: unity in diversity. Context and integration: the Allophone communities in Quebec / Bies Molinaro -- Quebec sovereignty and the challenge of linguistic and ethnocultural minorities: identity, difference, and the politics of ressentiment / Daniel Salée. section 9. The aboriginal communities in Quebec. Ally or colonizer? The federal state, the Cree Nation, and the James Bay Agreement / A watershed of words: litigating and negotiating nature in eastern James Bay, 1971-1975 / Nations at war: voice, peaceful resistance, and mobilization / Paul Rynard -- Hans M. Carlson -- Linda Pertusati. section10. Quebec and the canadian question: competing conceptions of duality and federalism. Perspectives on Quebec-Canada relations in the 1990s: Is the reconciliation of ethnicity, nationality, and citizenship possible? / Ethnicity, nationalism, and identity in Canada-Quebec relations: the case of Quebec's "distinct society" / The politics of nationalism in Quebec: the case of the Bélanger-Campeau commission / Gérard Boismenu -- Michael Burgess -- Max Nemni. section 11. The 1995 Referendum. The 1995 Quebec referendum: how the sovereignty partnership proposal turned the campaign around / Quebec women and the constitutional issue: a scattered group / Guy Lachapelle -- Chantal Maillé. section 12. Quebec identity politics in transition. Quebec in the emerging North American configuration / "Remembering (from) where you're going": memory as legacy and inheritance / Daniel Latouche -- Jocelyn Létourneau. section 13. Quebec on the world stage. Domestic politics of Quebec's quest for external distinctiveness / The federal context: Ottawa as padlock or partner? / Louis Bélanger -- Ben Rowswell. section 14.


Includes some text in French.

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Québec (Province)--History--1960-
Québec (Province)--History--Autonomy and independence movements.
Québec (Province)--History--1945-1960.
Québec (Province)--Social conditions--1960-1991.
Québec (Province)--Social conditions--1991-
Québec (Province)--Social conditions--1945-1960.
Québec (Province)--Histoire--1960-
Québec (Province)--Histoire--1945-1960.
Québec (Province)--Conditions sociales--1960-1991.
Québec (Province)--Conditions sociales--1991-
Québec (Province)--Conditions sociales--1945-1960.
Québec (Province)--Histoire--Autonomie et mouvements indépendantistes.

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