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Resource type
Book
Authors/contributors
Title
Gendered Pasts: Historical Essays in Feminity and Masculinity in Canada
Abstract
It is commonplace today to suggest that gender is socially constructed, that the roles women and men fulfill in their daily lives have been created and defined for them by society and social institutions. But how have men and women negotiated and navigated the gender roles that have been thrust upon them? With Gendered Pasts, Kathryn McPherson, Cecilia Morgan, and Nancy M. Forestell have collected eleven engaging essays that seek to answer this question in a wide-ranging exploration of specific gendered dimensions of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Canadian history.The contributors cover all manner of topics related to gender and history across Canada, including: female vagrancy; gambling, drinking, and sex; the role of the miner's wife; the portrayal of gay men; and the sharply defined role of nurses. Unusual in its breadth, Gendered Pasts is essential to the understanding of the various threads and themes in Canadian gender history. Previously published by Oxford University Press, . --Publisher's description
Series
Canadian social history series
Place
Toronto
Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Date
2015
# of Pages
x, 291 pages
Language
English
ISBN
978-1-4426-2797-0 978-0-8020-8690-7
Short Title
Gendered Pasts
URL
https://utorontopress.com/9781442658912/gendered-pasts/
Accessed
4/3/24, 5:00 AM
Extra
Book available at Internet Archive to people with print disabilities: http://archive.org/details/genderedpastshis0000unse_d9z9
Notes

Contents: Introduction : conceptualizing Canada's gendered pasts / Kathryn McPherson, Cecilia Morgan, and Nancy M. Forestell -- When bad men conspire, good men must unite!: Hender and political discourses in upper Canada, 1820's-1830's / Cecilia Morgan -- The homeless, the whore, the drunkard, and the disorderly: Vontours of female vagrancy in the Montreal courts, 1810-1842 / Mary Ann Poutanen -- No double standard?: Leisure, sex, and sin in upper Canadian church discipline records, 1800-1860 / Lynne Marks -- It was only a matter of passion: Masculinity and sexual danger / Karen Dubinsky and Adam Givertz -- Gender and work in Lekwammen families, 1843-1970 / John Lutz -- To take an orphan: Gender and family roles following the 1917 Halifax explosion / Suzanne Morton -- A fit and proper person: The moral regulation of single mothers in Ontario, 1920-1940 / Margaret Hillyard Little -- The miner's wife: Working-class femininity in a masculine context, 1920-1950 / Nancy M. Forestell -- Sex fiends or swish kids?: Gay men in Hush Free Press, 1946-1956 / Eric Setliff -- The case of the kissing nurse: Femininity, sexuality, and Canadian nursing, 1900-1970 / Kathryn McPherson -- Defending honour, demanding respect: Manly discourse and gendered practice in two construction strikes, Toronto, 1960-1961 / Franca Iacovetta.

Citation
McPherson, K., Morgan, C., & Forestell, N. M. (Eds.). (2015). Gendered Pasts: Historical Essays in Feminity and Masculinity in Canada. University of Toronto Press. https://utorontopress.com/9781442658912/gendered-pasts/
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