Poster Subject: Queer & Gender Studies

Poster Title: Raising Money, Having Time: Reproductive Labour and the Jubilee Guild

Bio: Sadie Mees (She/Her) is a M.A. Candidate in Anthropology and local activist, whose research explores women and their unpaid labour in society. In particular, she focuses on the unpaid reproductive labour of Newfoundland and Labrador women during the Great Depression for the Jubilee Guild.

Abstract: The Jubilee Guild was an educational and social organization started in the 1930s in Newfoundland. The goal of the Guild was to help outport people help themselves, through education. Women were the primary members of the Guild, and their unpaid labour was instrumental to the survival of families and communities during the Depression in Newfoundland. The ongoing research presented in this poster analyzes the way the Jubilee Guild shaped reproductive labour for women of the outports. This analysis is carried out by examining a series of interviews conducted in 1976 by the Women’s Institute of Newfoundland and Labrador. In these interviews, former members discussed their experiences of life within the Jubilee Guild.

Corresponding Author's Email: slmees@mun.ca