Contesting Canadian Citizenship

Acknowledgments Part I: Citizenship in Theory and History

1. Rethinking the Citizen in Canadian Social History (Robert Menzies, Dorothy E. Chunn and Robert Adamoski)

2. Three Stories of Canadian Citizenship (Janine Brodie)

Part II: Constituting the Canadian Citizen

3. 'The Citizenship Debates': The 1885 Franchise Act (Veronica Strong-Boag)

4. From the Nation to the Citizen: Quebec Historical Writing and the Shaping of Identity (Ronald Rudin)

5. Indigenous Citizenship and History in Canada: Between Denial and Imposition (Claude Denis)

Part III: Domesticity, Industry and Nationhood

6. Scaffolding Citizenship: Housing Reform and Nation Formation in Canada, 1900-1950 (Sean Purdy)

7. Unemployment and the New Industrial Citizenship: A Review of the Ontario Unemployment Commission, 1916 (Jennifer Stephen)

8. Indispensable but not a Citizen: The Housewife in the Great Depression (Denyse Baillargeon)

9. Time, Swimming Pools, and Citizenship: The Emergence of Leisure Rights in Mid-Twentieth Century Canada (Shirley Tillotson)

Part IV: Pedagogies of Belonging and Exclusion

10. "The Good Citizen": Masculinity and Citizenship at Frontier College, 1899-1933 (Lorna R. McLean)

11. Education for Motherhood: Creating Modern Mothers and Model Citizens (Katherine Arnup)

12. Constructing Normal Citizens: Sex Advice for Postwar Teens (Mary Louise Adams)

13. Black Nova Scotian Women's Schooling and Citizenship: An Education of Violence (Bernice Moreau)

Part V: The Boundaries of Citizenship

14. The Child - The Citizen - The Nation: The Rhetoric and Experience of Wardship in Early Twentieth Century British Columbia (Robert Adamoski)

15. Creating Social and Moral Citizens: Defining and Treating Delinquent Boys and Girls in English Canada, 1920-65 (Joan Sangster)

16. Sex And Citizenship: (Hetero)Sexual Offences, Law and 'White' Settler Society in British Columbia, 1885-1940 (Dorothy E. Chunn)

17. 'Unfit' Citizens and the BC Royal Commission on Mental Hygiene, 1925-28 (Robert Menzies)

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