Gendered Pasts
Historical Essays in Femininity and Masculinity in Canada
2nd Edition
Will be published approx. on 26. November 2003
Book
Paperback/Softback
360 pages
978-0-8020-8690-7 (ISBN)
Description
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 them? With Gendered Pasts, Kathryn McPherson, Cecilia Morgan, and Nancy M. Forestell have collected eleven engaging essays that seek to answer this question in a wide-ranging exploration of specific gendered dimensions of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Canadian history.
The contributors cover all manner of topics related to gender and history across Canada, including: female vagrancy; gambling, drinking, and sex; the role of the miner's wife; the portrayal of gay men; and the sharply defined role of nurses. Unusual in its breadth, Gendered Pasts is essential to the understanding of the various threads and themes in Canadian gender history.
Previously published by Oxford University Press.
The contributors cover all manner of topics related to gender and history across Canada, including: female vagrancy; gambling, drinking, and sex; the role of the miner's wife; the portrayal of gay men; and the sharply defined role of nurses. Unusual in its breadth, Gendered Pasts is essential to the understanding of the various threads and themes in Canadian gender history.
Previously published by Oxford University Press.
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Series
Edition
2nd edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Toronto
Canada
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 214 mm
Width: 142 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
399 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8020-8690-7 (9780802086907)
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Kathryn McPherson is an associate professor in the Department of History and the School of Women's Studies at York University.
Cecilia Morgan is Professor at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto. She is the author of Commemorating Canada: History, Heritage, and Memory, 1850-1990s (2016), as well as Creating Colonial Pasts: History, Memory, and Commemoration in Southern Ontario, 1860-1980 (2015).
Nancy M. Forestell is an associate professor in the Department of History at St Francis Xavier University.
Cecilia Morgan is Professor at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto. She is the author of Commemorating Canada: History, Heritage, and Memory, 1850-1990s (2016), as well as Creating Colonial Pasts: History, Memory, and Commemoration in Southern Ontario, 1860-1980 (2015).
Nancy M. Forestell is an associate professor in the Department of History at St Francis Xavier University.