Contesting Canadian Citizenship : : Historical Readings / / Robert Menzies, Robert Adamoski, Dorothy Chunn.

• TeilnehmendeR: Adamoski, Robert,; Chunn, Dorothy,; Menzies, Robert,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

Over the past 15 years, the citizenship debate in political and social theory has undergone an extraordinary renaissance. To date, much of the writing on citizenship, within and beyond Canada, has been oriented toward the development of theory, or has concentrated on contemporary issues and examples. This collection of essays adopts a different approach by contextualizing and historicizing the citizenship debate, through studies of various aspects of the rise of social citizenship in Canada. Focusing on the formative years from the late 19th through mid-20th century, contributors examine how emerging discourse and practices in diverse areas of Canadian social life created a widely engaged, but often deeply contested, vision of the new Canadian citizen. The original essays examine key developments in the fields of welfare, justice, health, childhood, family, immigration, education, labour, media, popular culture and recreation, highlighting the contradictory nature of Canadian citizenship. The implications of these projects for the daily lives of Canadians, their identities, and the forms of resistance that they mounted, are central themes. Contributing authors situate their historical accounts in both public and private domains, their analyses emphasizing the mutual permeability of state and civil(ian) life. These diverse investigations reveal that while Canadian citizenship conveys crucial images of identity, security, and participatory democracy within the ongoing project of nation building, it is also interlaced with the projects of a hierarchical social structure and exclusionary political order. This collection explores the origins and evolution of Canadian citizenship in historical context. It also introduces the more general dilemmas and debates in social history and political theory that inevitably inform these inquiries.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Part I. Citizenship In Theory And History -- Chapter 1. Rethinking The Citizen In Canadian Social History / Menzies, Robert / Adamoski, Robert / Chunn, Dorothy E. -- Chapter 2. Three Stories Of Canadian Citizenship / Brodie, Janine -- Part II. Constituting The Canadian Citizen -- Chapter 3. "The Citizenship Debates": The 1885 Franchise Act / Strong-Boag, Veronica -- Chapter 4. From The Nation To The Citizen: Quebec Historical Writing And The Shaping Of Identity / Rudin, Ronald -- Chapter 5. Indigenous Citizenship And History In Canada: Between Denial And Imposition / Denis, Claude -- Part III. Domesticity, Industry And Nationhood -- Chapter 6. Scaffolding Citizenship: Housing Reform And Nation Formation In Canada, 1900-1950 / Purdy, Sean -- Chapter 7. Unemployment And The New Industrial Citizenship: A Review Of The Ontario Unemployment Commission, 1916 / Stephen, Jennifer -- Chapter 8. Indispensable But Not A Citizen: The Housewife In The Great Depression / Baillargeon, Denyse -- Chapter 9. Time, Swimming Pools, And Citizenship: The Emergence Of Leisure Rights In Mid-Twentieth-Century Canada / Tillotson, Shirley -- Part IV. Pedagogies Of Belonging And Exclusion -- Chapter 10. "The Good Citizen": Masculinity And Citizenship At Frontier College, 1899-1933 / McLean, Lorna R. -- Chapter 11. Education For Motherhood: Creating Modern Mothers And Model Citizens / Arnup, Katherine -- Chapter 12. Constructing Normal Citizens: Sex Advice For Postwar Teens / Adams, Mary Louise -- Chapter 13. Black Nova Scotian Women's Schooling And Citizenship: An Education Of Violence / Moreau, Bernice -- Part V. The Boundaries Of Citizenship -- Chapter 14. The Child - The Citizen - The Nation: The Rhetoric And Experience Of Wardship In Early Twentieth-Century British Columbia / Adamoski, Robert -- Chapter 15. Creating Social And Moral Citizens: Defining And Treating Delinquent Boys And Girls In English Canada, 1920-65 / Sangster, Joan -- Chapter 16. Sex And Citizenship: (Hetero)Sexual Offences, Law And "White" Settler Society In British Columbia, 1885-1940 / Chunn, Dorothy E. -- Chapter 17. "Unfit" Citizens And The B.C. Royal Commission On Mental Hygiene, 1925-28 / Menzies, Robert -- Contributors -- Index