Cold War Comforts Canadian Women, Child Safety, and Global
Insecurity Order online and receive a 25% discount $39.95 Paper,
306 pp. Finalist for the 2013 Canada Prize in the Social
Sciences awarded by the Canadian Federation for the Humanities
and Social Sciences. Cold War Comforts examines Canadian women’s
efforts to protect children’s health and safety between the
dropping of the first atomic bomb in Hiroshima in 1945 and the
end of the Vietnam War in 1975. Amid this global insecurity,
many women participated in civil defence or joined the
disarmament movement as means to protect their families from the
consequences of nuclear war. To help children affected by
conflicts in Europe and Asia, women also organized foreign
relief and international adoptions. In Canada, women pursued
different paths to peace and security. From all walks of life,
and from all parts of the country, they dedicated themselves to
finding ways to survive the hottest periods of the Cold War.
What united these women was their shared conc