Gendered Pasts: Historical Essays in Femininity and Masculinity in Canada (Canadian Social History Series) - Softcover

9780802086907: Gendered Pasts: Historical Essays in Femininity and Masculinity in Canada (Canadian Social History Series)

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ISBN 10: 080208690X ISBN 13: 9780802086907

Publisher: University of Toronto Press, 2003

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.

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About the Author:

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.

Review:

"...Gendered Pasts does a valuable service by focussing our sights on the often blurry historical lines between gender and sexuality, encouraging us to find ways to bring them into sharper view."-The Canadian Historical Review

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