Gendered Pasts : : Historical Essays in Femininity and Masculinity in Canada / / Nancy Forestell, Kathryn McPherson, Cecilia Morgan.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter UTP eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2015
• TeilnehmendeR: Forestell, Nancy,; McPherson, Kathryn,; Morgan, Cecilia,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2017]; ©2003
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Series: Canadian Social History Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Contributors -- Introduction: conceptualizing Canada's gendered pasts / McPherson, Kathryn / Morgan, Cecilia / Forestell, Nancy M. -- 1 'When bad men conspire, good men must unite!': gender and political discourses in upper Canada, 1820s-1830s / Morgan, Cecilia -- 2 The homeless, the whore, the drunkard, and the disorderly: contours of female vagrancy in the Montreal courts, 1810-1842 / Poutanen, Mary Anne -- 3 No double standard?: leisure, sex, and sin in upper Canadian church discipline records, 1800-1860 / Marks, Lynne -- 4 'It was only a matter of passion': masculinity and sexual danger / Dubinsky, Karen / Givertz, Adam -- 5 Gender and work in Lekwammen families, 1843-1970 / Lutz, John -- 6 'To take an orphan': gender and family roles following the 1917 Halifax explosion / Morton, Suzanne -- 7 'A fit and proper person': the moral regulation of single mothers in Ontario, 1920-1940 / Little, Margaret Hillyard -- 8 The miner's wife: working-class femininity in a masculine context, 1920-1950 / Forestell, Nancy M. -- 9 Sex fiends or swish kids?: gay men in hush free press, 1946-1956 / Setliff, Eric -- 10 The case of the kissing nurse': femininity, sexuality, and Canadian nursing, 1900-1970 / McPherson, Kathryn -- 11 Defending Honour, demanding respect: manly discourse and gendered practice in two construction strikes, Toronto, 1960-1961 / lacovetta, Franca -- Notes