Gendered Pasts: Historical Essays in Femininity and Masculinity in Canada

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Kathryn McPherson, Cecilia Morgan, Nancy Forestell
University of Toronto Press, Dec 15, 2003 - History - 360 pages

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.

 

Contents

Leisure Sex and Sin in Upper Canadian
48
Masculinity and Sexual
65
Gender and Work in Lekwammen Families 18431970
80
Gender and Family Roles Following
106
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Kathryn M. McPherson,Nancy M. Forestell,Cecilia Louise Morgan
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About the author (2003)

Kathryn McPherson is an associate professor in the Department of History and the School of Women's Studies at York University.

Cecilia Morgan is Professor at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto. She is the author of Commemorating Canada: History, Heritage, and Memory, 1850–1990s (2016), as well as Creating Colonial Pasts: History, Memory, and Commemoration in Southern Ontario, 1860–1980 (2015).

Nancy M. Forestell is an associate professor in the Department of History at St Francis Xavier University.

Bibliographic information

TitleGendered Pasts: Historical Essays in Femininity and Masculinity in Canada
Canadian Social History Series
EditorsKathryn McPherson, Cecilia Morgan, Nancy Forestell
PublisherUniversity of Toronto Press, 2003
ISBN1442658916, 9781442658912
Length360 pages
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History / Canada / General
Social Science / Gender Studies
  
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