Abstract
IN THE YEARS AFTER THE SECOND WORLD WAR IN CANADA, residential suburbs provided symbolic female counterparts, 'bedrooms' as it were, to the male-dominated, market-oriented world of modern cities.' Tracts of new housing embodied a separation of the sexes that held women particularly responsible for home and family and men for economic support and community leadership. Such a gendered landscape was far from new or unusual in Canada. Women and men had long moved in somewhat different worlds, presiding over residential and public space in varying degrees as dictated by custom and, sometimes,
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