Gendered pasts : historical essays in femininity and masculinity in Canada

Forestell, Nancy M. (Nancy Margaret), 1960- (Added Author). McPherson, Kathryn Mae. (Added Author). Morgan, Cecilia Louise, 1958- (Added Author).

Record details

ISBN: 0195414497 (pbk)
Physical Description: print
x, 291 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Publisher: Toronto, Ont. : Oxford University Press, c1999.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-291).

Formatted Contents Note:

'When Bad Men Conspire, Good Men Must Unite!': Gender and Political Discourses in Upper Canada, 1820s-1830s / Cecilia Morgan. -- The Homeless, the Whore, the Drunkard, and the Disorderly: Contours of Female Vagrancy in the Montreal Courts, 1810-1842 / Mary Anne 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. -- 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.