Practising femininity : domestic realism and the performance of gender in early Canadian fiction / / Misao Dean
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| Autore: |
Dean Misao
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| Titolo: |
Practising femininity : domestic realism and the performance of gender in early Canadian fiction / / Misao Dean
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| Pubblicazione: | Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 1998 |
| ©1998 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (150 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 813.009/352042 |
| Soggetto topico: | Canadian fiction - Women authors - History and criticism |
| Domestic fiction - History and criticism | |
| Women and literature - Canada | |
| Femininity in literature | |
| Sex role in literature | |
| Realism in literature | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Note generali: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Practising Femininity -- 1. The Female Emigrant's Guide as the Mending Basket of Domestic Ideology -- 2. The Broken Mirror of Domestic Ideology: Femininity as Textual Practice in Susanna Moodie's Autobiographical Works -- 3. Translated by Desire: Romance and Politics in Rosanna Leprohon 's Antoinette de Mirecourt -- 4. Explain Yourself: New Woman Fiction in Canada -- 5. Voicing the Voiceless: The Practice of 'Self-expression' in Nellie McClung's Fiction and Her Autobiography -- 6. Femininity and the Real in As for Me and My House -- Conclusion: Citing and Reciting -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Femininity 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Practising femininity |
| ISBN: | 1-281-99559-2 |
| 9786611995591 | |
| 1-4426-7871-2 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910456159503321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Theory/culture series.