Gendered pasts
Subtitle: historical essays in femininity and masculinity in Canada
By: edited by Kathryn McPherson, Cecilia Morgan, and Nancy M. Forestell.
Contributors: McPherson, Kathryn M.; Morgan, Cecilia Louise, 1958-; Forestell, Nancy M. 1960-
Series: The Canadian social history series
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Don Mills, Ont; Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 291
Subjects: Sex role -- Canada -- History; Masculinity -- Canada -- History; Femininity -- Canada -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-291).
Table of contents: title: Introduction : conceptualizing Canada's gendered pasts / Kathryn McPherson, Cecilia Morgan, and Nancy M. Forestell; title: When bad men conspire, good men must unite! : gender and political discourses in upper Canada, 1820's-1830's / Cecilia Morgan; title: The homeless, the whore, the drunkard, and the disorderly : contours of female vagrancy in the Montreal courts, 1810-1842 / Mary Ann Poutanen; title: No double standard? : leisure, sex, and sin in upper Canadian church discipline records, 1800-1860 / Lynne Marks; title: It was only a matter of passion : masculinity and sexual danger / Karen Dubinsky and Adam Givertz; title: Gender and work in Lekwammen families, 1843-1970 / John Lutz; title: To take an orphan : gender and family roles following the 1917 Halifax explosion / Suzanne Morton; title: A fit and proper person : the moral regulation of single mothers in Ontario, 1920-1940 / Margaret Hillyard Little; title: The miner's wife : working-class femininity in a masculine context, 1920-1950 / Nancy M. Forestell; title: Sex fiends or swish kids? : gay men in Hush Free Press, 1946-1956 / Eric Setliff; title: The case of the kissing nurse : femininity, sexuality, and Canadian nursing, 1900-1970 / Kathryn McPherson; title: Defending honour, demanding respect : manly discourse and gendered practice in two construction strikes, Toronto, 1960-1961 / Franca Iacovetta.