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Gendered pasts : historical essays in feminity and masculinity in Canada /
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Toronto, Ontario :
University of Toronto Press,
2003.
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| Colección: | Canadian social history series.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : conceptualizing Canada's gendered pasts / Kathryn McPherson, Cecilia Morgan, and Nancy M. Forestell
- When bad men conspire, good men must unite! : gender and political discourses in upper Canada, 1820's-1830's / Cecilia Morgan
- The homeless, the whore, the drunkard, and the disorderly : contours 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.