LEADER 04531nam 2200793 450 001 9910456159503321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-281-99559-2 010 $a9786611995591 010 $a1-4426-7871-2 024 7 $a10.3138/9781442678712 035 $a(CKB)2420000000004291 035 $a(OCoLC)244768843 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10226351 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000306709 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11925050 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000306709 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10299146 035 $a(PQKB)10031368 035 $a(CaPaEBR)420822 035 $a(CaBNvSL)thg00604690 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3257951 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4671850 035 $a(DE-B1597)464769 035 $a(OCoLC)944177649 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781442678712 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4671850 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11257540 035 $a(OCoLC)958579516 035 $a(EXLCZ)992420000000004291 100 $a20160923h19981998 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aPractising femininity $edomestic realism and the performance of gender in early Canadian fiction /$fMisao Dean 210 1$aToronto, [Ontario] ;$aBuffalo, [New York] ;$aLondon, [England] :$cUniversity of Toronto Press,$d1998. 210 4$dİ1998 215 $a1 online resource (150 p.) 225 1 $aTheory / Culture 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-8020-8138-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tIntroduction: Practising Femininity -- $t1. The Female Emigrant's Guide as the Mending Basket of Domestic Ideology -- $t2. The Broken Mirror of Domestic Ideology: Femininity as Textual Practice in Susanna Moodie's Autobiographical Works -- $t3. Translated by Desire: Romance and Politics in Rosanna Leprohon 's Antoinette de Mirecourt -- $t4. Explain Yourself: New Woman Fiction in Canada -- $t5. Voicing the Voiceless: The Practice of 'Self-expression' in Nellie McClung's Fiction and Her Autobiography -- $t6. Femininity and the Real in As for Me and My House -- $tConclusion: Citing and Reciting -- $tNotes -- $tWorks Cited -- $tIndex 330 $aFemininity in colonial societies is a particularly contested element of the sex/gender system; while it draws on a conservative belief in universal and continuous values, it is undermined by the liberal rhetoric of freedom characteristic of the New World. Practising Femininity analyses the ways in which Canadian texts by Catharine Parr Traill, Susanna Moodie, Nellie McClung, Sinclair Ross, and others work to produce and naturalize femininity in a colonial setting.Drawing on Judith Butler?s definition of gender as performance, Misao Dean shows how practices which seem to transgress the feminine ideal ? the difficulties of emigration, physical labour, autobiographical writing, work for wages, sexual desire, and suffrage activism ? were justified by Canadian writers as legitimate expressions of an unvarying feminine inner self. Early Canadian writers cited a feminine gender ideal which emphasized love of home and adherence to duty; New Women and Suffrage writers attributed sexuality to a biological desire to reproduce; in the work of Sinclair Ross, the feminine ideal was moulded by prevailing Freudian models of femininity.This study is grounded in the most important current gender theories, and will interest Canadian literary scholars, feminist historians and theoreticians, and students of women?s studies. 410 0$aTheory/culture series. 606 $aCanadian fiction$xWomen authors$xHistory and criticism 606 $aDomestic fiction$xHistory and criticism 606 $aWomen and literature$zCanada 606 $aFemininity in literature 606 $aSex role in literature 606 $aRealism in literature 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aCanadian fiction$xWomen authors$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aDomestic fiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aWomen and literature 615 0$aFemininity in literature. 615 0$aSex role in literature. 615 0$aRealism in literature. 676 $a813.009/352042 700 $aDean$b Misao$0473368 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910456159503321 996 $aPractising femininity$92443022 997 $aUNINA