| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 105.5

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Canada and the United States

Mona Gleason. Normalizing the Ideal: Psychology, Schooling, and the Family in Postwar Canada. (Studies in Gender and History.) Buffalo: University of Toronto Press. 1999. Pp. 196. Cloth $50.00, paper $19.95.

A recurring theme in Western history is the notion of a "crisis" in the family. Each round of hand-wringing brought its package of nostrums. In the mid-twentieth century, Canadian psychologists shared with counterparts elsewhere the belief that the World War II had "had a disrupting effect on a number of things, ranging from the state of the family to the relationship between men and women to the nature of growing up" (p. 80). To remedy this state of affairs, psychologists offered "new ways of thinking about the meaning of family life, new ways of measuring success within the family circle, and new ways of conceiving of the importance of mothers and fathers" (p. 96). In this fine study, Mona Gleason identifies the major figures in the movement, describes the nature and source of the ideas they promoted, and suggests some of the short and long-term effects of their work. . . .

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