Gender and History in Canada

Contents: Gender history and historical practice / Joy Parr -- Categories and terrains of exclusion: Constructing the "Indian Woman" in the early settlement era in Western Canada / Sarah Carter -- Real men hunt buffalo: Masculinity, race and class in British fur traders' narratives / Elizabeth Vibert -- Race, gender and Canadian immigration policy: Blacks from the Caribbean, 1900-1932 / Agnes Calliste -- Like a Chinese puzzle: The construction of Chinese masculinity in Jack Canuck / Madge Pon -- "Of slender frame and delicate appearance": The placing of Laura Secord in the Narratives of Canadian loyalist history / Cecilia Morgan -- Commemorating the woman warrior of New France: Madeline de Verchères, 1696-1930 / Colin M. Coates -- "The pleasure is exquisite but violent": The imaginary geography of Niagara Falls in the nineteenth century / Karen Dubinsky -- Through a hole in the lavatory wall: Homosexual subcultures, police surveillance, and the dialectics of discovery, Toronto, 1890-1930 / Steven Maynard -- A manly sport: Baseball and the social construction of masculinity / Colin Howell -- Masculinity, fraternity, and respectability in Halifax at the turn of the twentieth century / Judith Fingard -- "We may all soon be first-class men": Gender and skill in Canada's early twentieth century urban telegraph industry / Shirley Tillotson -- Memories of work, family, and gender in the Canadian Merchant Marine, 1920-50 / Eric Sager -- "Have you no manhood in you?": Gender and class in the Cape Breton coal towns, 1920-26 / Steven Penfold -- Families, private property, and the state: The Dionnes and the Toronto stork derby / Mariana Valverde -- The queer career of homosexual security vetting in Cold War Canada / Daniel J. Robinson & David Kimmel -- Elderly men and women in a Halifax working-class suburb during the 1920s / Suzanne Morton -- Fatherhood and the social construction of memory: Breadwinning and male parenting on a job frontier, 1945-1966 / Robert Rutherdale.