UID:
edocfu_9958353288002883
Format:
1 online resource
ISBN:
9781442627970
Series Statement:
Canadian Social History Series
Content:
It is commonplace today to suggest that gender is socially constructed, that the roles women and men fulfill in their daily lives have been created and defined for them by society and social institutions. But how have men and women negotiated and navigated the gender roles that have been thrust upon them? With Gendered Pasts, Kathryn McPherson, Cecilia Morgan, and Nancy M. Forestell have collected eleven engaging essays that seek to answer this question in a wide-ranging exploration of specific gendered dimensions of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Canadian history.The contributors cover all manner of topics related to gender and history across Canada, including: female vagrancy; gambling, drinking, and sex; the role of the miner's wife; the portrayal of gay men; and the sharply defined role of nurses. Unusual in its breadth, Gendered Pasts is essential to the understanding of the various threads and themes in Canadian gender history.Previously published by Oxford University Press.
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Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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Acknowledgements --
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Contributors --
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Introduction: conceptualizing Canada's gendered pasts --
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1 'When bad men conspire, good men must unite!': gender and political discourses in upper Canada, 1820s-1830s --
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2 The homeless, the whore, the drunkard, and the disorderly: contours of female vagrancy in the Montreal courts, 1810-1842 --
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3 No double standard?: leisure, sex, and sin in upper Canadian church discipline records, 1800-1860 --
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4 'It was only a matter of passion': masculinity and sexual danger --
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5 Gender and work in Lekwammen families, 1843-1970 --
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6 'To take an orphan': gender and family roles following the 1917 Halifax explosion --
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7 'A fit and proper person': the moral regulation of single mothers in Ontario, 1920-1940 --
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8 The miner's wife: working-class femininity in a masculine context, 1920-1950 --
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9 Sex fiends or swish kids?: gay men in hush free press, 1946-1956 --
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10 The case of the kissing nurse': femininity, sexuality, and Canadian nursing, 1900-1970 --
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11 Defending Honour, demanding respect: manly discourse and gendered practice in two construction strikes, Toronto, 1960-1961 --
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Notes
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In English.
Language:
English
DOI:
10.3138/9781442627970
URL:
https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442627970
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