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Record Nr.

UNINA9910780577903321

Titolo

Gendered pasts : historical essays in femininity and masculinity in Canada / / edited by Kathryn McPherson, Cecilia Morgan, and Nancy M. Forestell

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2003

©2003

ISBN

1-4426-5891-6

1-4426-2797-2

1-281-99732-3

9786611997328

Edizione

[2nd ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (234 p.)

Collana

Canadian Social History Series

Disciplina

305.3097109034

Soggetti

Sex role - Canada - History

Femininity - Canada - History - 19th century

Sex role - Canada - History - 20th century

Canada

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Contributors -- Introduction: conceptualizing Canada's gendered pasts / McPherson, Kathryn / Morgan, Cecilia / Forestell, Nancy M. -- 1 'When bad men conspire, good men must unite!': gender and political discourses in upper Canada, 1820s-1830s / Morgan, Cecilia -- 2 The homeless, the whore, the drunkard, and the disorderly: contours of female vagrancy in the Montreal courts, 1810-1842 / Poutanen, Mary Anne -- 3 No double standard?: leisure, sex, and sin in upper Canadian church discipline records, 1800-1860 / Marks, Lynne -- 4 'It was only a matter of passion': masculinity and sexual danger / Dubinsky, Karen / Givertz, Adam -- 5 Gender and work in Lekwammen families, 1843-1970 / Lutz, John -- 6 'To take an orphan': gender and family roles following the 1917 Halifax explosion / Morton, Suzanne -- 7 'A fit and proper person': the moral regulation of single mothers in Ontario, 1920-1940



/ Little, Margaret Hillyard -- 8 The miner's wife: working-class femininity in a masculine context, 1920-1950 / Forestell, Nancy M. -- 9 Sex fiends or swish kids?: gay men in hush free press, 1946-1956 / Setliff, Eric -- 10 The case of the kissing nurse': femininity, sexuality, and Canadian nursing, 1900-1970 / McPherson, Kathryn -- 11 Defending Honour, demanding respect: manly discourse and gendered practice in two construction strikes, Toronto, 1960-1961 / lacovetta, Franca -- Notes

Sommario/riassunto

Unusual in its breadth, Gendered Pasts is essential to the understanding of the various threads and themes in Canadian gender history.