Title: Practising femininity
Description: Femininity in colonial societies is a particularly contested element of the sex/gender system; while it draws on a conservative belief in universal and continuous values, it is undermined by the liberal rhetoric of freedom characteristic of the New World. Practising Femininity analyses the ways in which Canadian texts by Catharine Parr Traill, Susanna Moodie, Nellie McClung, Sinclair Ross, and others work to produce and naturalize femininity in a colonial setting.

This study is grounded in the most important current gender theories, and will interest Canadian literary scholars, feminist historians and theoreticians, and students of women's studies.
Subjects: Femininity in literature, Realism in literature, History and criticism, Sex role in literature, Women authors, Canadian fiction, Women and literature, Domestic fiction, Canadian fiction, history and criticism, Feminism and literature, Literature, history and criticism, History
Places: Canada