Rebecca Mancuso
Biographic Data
| ID | 817217 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rebecca Mancuso |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rebecca |
| FAMILY NAME | Mancuso |
| SIGNATURE | MANCUSO R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Bowling Green State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
We support child support
In the United States, the fair and efficient enforcement of child support obligations has long posed challenges to all levels of government, often to the detriment of single-mother families. This article traces the local-to-national activism of the Association for Children for Enforcement of Support (ACES), one of the largest child support enforcement organizations in the country. Established in Toledo, Ohio, and comprised overwhelmingly of women…
The Finger Saga
The Wood County (Ohio) Historical Center and Museum has struggled with how to treat a controversial artifact a long time in its possession: a set of severed human fingers in a jar. Collected from a murder scene in 1881, “The Fingers in the Jar” have become a popular piece of the museum’s collection but for problematic reasons. This article traces the artifact’s life from creation to lurid objectification and proposes a new interpretation that rec…
Reflections of the “Roving Britishers”
This article analyzes a selection of travel accounts by nine British authors who journeyed across Canada between 1900 and 1914. The monographs, all published in London, purported to present authentic and up-to-date observations of Canada, the eldest Dominion in the Imperial “family,” to British and Canadian audiences. Additional goals of their narratives, and less clearly acknowledged, were to convince English Canadians of the value of strengthen…
For Purity or Prosperity
This study examines how Canada's immigration policy became the site of competing nationalist visions in the post-First World War period, when Canadians struggled with a changed sense of the nation's identity and purpose. It focuses on two groups, divided largely along gender lines: female civil servants new to Ottawa's immigration department, and Canada's leading industrialists. At the crux of the immigration debate in this period, as now, was wh…
Give Me a Canadian’
In 1927, the Canadian Department of Immigration and Colonization agreed to support a joint British-Canadian training scheme for British female domestics bound for the dominion. Under the larger initiative called Empire Settlement, not only did the programme attract few trainees, but even fewer of the trained migrant women remained in domestic service once in Canada. In an effort to account for failure, the Canadian women promoting the scheme turn…
The Danes of Montreal
This paper discusses a public history project conducted by the author for the Danish Canadians of Montreal in the 1990s. The Danish Canadian community expected that researching their community history would help them recover a more authentic ethnicity and shine a light on their group's unique ethnocultural practices. However, to the community's disappointment, historical research instead revealed a strong trend toward Anglo-conformity, to the poi…
Work “Only a Woman Can DO”
For many of Canada's women the year 1920 was a tremendous break from the past. With the federal franchise finally conferred upon them after a long crusade, they stood on the threshold of a new decade wishing to do nothing less than change the world as participants in public life. That year, upper-class English Canadian women saw a major goal fulfilled: the creation of a new Women's Division within the Canadian Department of Immigration and Coloni…
The Finger Saga
The Wood County (Ohio) Historical Center and Museum has struggled with how to treat a controversial artifact a long time in its possession: a set of severed human fingers in a jar. Collected from a murder scene in 1881, “The Fingers in the Jar” have become a popular piece of the museum’s collection but for problematic reasons. This article traces the artifact’s life from creation to lurid objectification and proposes a new interpretation that rec…
Work “Only a Woman Can DO”
For many of Canada's women the year 1920 was a tremendous break from the past. With the federal franchise finally conferred upon them after a long crusade, they stood on the threshold of a new decade wishing to do nothing less than change the world as participants in public life. That year, upper-class English Canadian women saw a major goal fulfilled: the creation of a new Women's Division within the Canadian Department of Immigration and Coloni…
The Danes of Montreal
This paper discusses a public history project conducted by the author for the Danish Canadians of Montreal in the 1990s. The Danish Canadian community expected that researching their community history would help them recover a more authentic ethnicity and shine a light on their group's unique ethnocultural practices. However, to the community's disappointment, historical research instead revealed a strong trend toward Anglo-conformity, to the poi…
For Purity or Prosperity
This study examines how Canada's immigration policy became the site of competing nationalist visions in the post-First World War period, when Canadians struggled with a changed sense of the nation's identity and purpose. It focuses on two groups, divided largely along gender lines: female civil servants new to Ottawa's immigration department, and Canada's leading industrialists. At the crux of the immigration debate in this period, as now, was wh…
Give Me a Canadian’
In 1927, the Canadian Department of Immigration and Colonization agreed to support a joint British-Canadian training scheme for British female domestics bound for the dominion. Under the larger initiative called Empire Settlement, not only did the programme attract few trainees, but even fewer of the trained migrant women remained in domestic service once in Canada. In an effort to account for failure, the Canadian women promoting the scheme turn…
Reflections of the “Roving Britishers”
This article analyzes a selection of travel accounts by nine British authors who journeyed across Canada between 1900 and 1914. The monographs, all published in London, purported to present authentic and up-to-date observations of Canada, the eldest Dominion in the Imperial “family,” to British and Canadian audiences. Additional goals of their narratives, and less clearly acknowledged, were to convince English Canadians of the value of strengthen…
The Finger Saga
The Wood County (Ohio) Historical Center and Museum has struggled with how to treat a controversial artifact a long time in its possession: a set of severed human fingers in a jar. Collected from a murder scene in 1881, “The Fingers in the Jar” have become a popular piece of the museum’s collection but for problematic reasons. This article traces the artifact’s life from creation to lurid objectification and proposes a new interpretation that rec…
We support child support
In the United States, the fair and efficient enforcement of child support obligations has long posed challenges to all levels of government, often to the detriment of single-mother families. This article traces the local-to-national activism of the Association for Children for Enforcement of Support (ACES), one of the largest child support enforcement organizations in the country. Established in Toledo, Ohio, and comprised overwhelmingly of women…
Law (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Canadian Identity and History (5 works) · Immigration (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · History (4 works) · Law (4 works) · History (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works)