The Catholic Origins of Quebec's Quiet Revolution, 1931-1970

Montreal, PQ, Canada: McGill-Queen's University Press. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. 0773528741 . KB15...xiv + 502 pp. Notes and index. Octavo. Grey dust jacket with colorful image of an old Quebecois church. DJ has just a hint of shelf wear. Book itself is clean and unmarked, tight and fresh. Good copy. Gauvreau argues that the Catholic Action youth movements of the 1930s and other such organizations played a central role in formulating the religious ideology underlying the Quiet Revolution, which ordinary Quebecers experienced through a series of transformations in the expression of their Catholic identy. Includes Cultural Origins of the Quiet Revolution 1931-1945; Elites Masses and the Betrayal of Catholicism 1945-1958; Marriage, Sexuality and the Reconstruction of the French Canadian Family 1931-1955; The Disaggregation and Privvatization of the F-C Family 1955-1970; Sexuality, Birth Control and Feminism 1931-1971; Catholicism and Education Reform in Quebec 1960-1964; Fernand Dumont, Quebec's Second Revolution and the Drama of De-Christianization 1964-1971; What then was the Quiet Revolution. Notes & Index. ; Studies in the History of Religion; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; 502 pages .