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.