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[This book] is a collection of essays that surveys the burgeoning field of gender history in a Canadian context. Spanning a period from seventeenth century to the 1960s, and covering the regions of Canada, the selections focus on different historical representations and pratices of feminity and masculinity. Historians in the field examine neglected dimensions, and challenge previous interpretations of Canada's past, highlighting the importance of gender relations to our understanding of racism, sexuality, national identity, popular culture, class conflict, government policy, and family in Canadian history. --Publisher's description. 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.

OCLC: 1022819897