Gender and History in Canada

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Edited by Joy Parr and Mark Rosenfeld. Copp Clark, Toronto, 1996. 381p.

Contents:

Categories and terrains of exclusion : constructing the “Indian Woman” in the early settlement era in Western Canada / Sarah Carter —
Real men hunt buffalo : masculinity, race and class in British fur traders’ narratives / Elizabeth Vibert —
Race, gender and Canadian immigration policy : blacks from the Caribbean, 1900-1932 / Agnes Calliste —
Like a Chinese puzzle : the construction of Chinese masculinity in Jack Canuck / Madge Pon —
“Of slender frame and delicate appearance” : the placing of Laura Secord in the Narratives of Canadian loyalist history / Cecilia Morgan —
Commemorating the woman warrior of New France : Madeline de Verchères, 1696-1930 / Colin M. Coates —
“The pleasure is exquisite but violent” : the imaginary geography of Niagara Falls in the nineteenth century / Karen Dubinsky —
Through a hole in the lavatory wall : homosexual subcultures, police surveillance, and the dialectics of discovery, Toronto, 1890-1930 / Steven Maynard —
A manly sport : baseball and the social construction of masculinity / Colin Howell. Masculinity, fraternity, and respectability in Halifax at the turn of the twentieth century / Judith Fingard —
“We may all soon be first-class men” : gender and skill in Canada’s early twentieth century urban telegraph industry / Shirley Tillotson —
Memories of work, family, and gender in the Canadian Merchant Marine, 1920-50 / Eric Sager —
“Have you no manhood in you?” : gender and class in the Cape Breton coal towns, 1920-26 / Steven Penfold —
Families, private property, and the state : the Dionnes and the Toronto stork derby / Mariana Valverde —
The queer career of homosexual security vetting in Cold War Canada / Daniel J. Robinson & David Kimmel —
Elderly men and women in a Halifax working-class suburb during the 1920s / Suzanne Morton —
Fatherhood and the social construction of memory : breadwinning and male parenting on a job frontier, 1945-1966 / Robert Rutherdale.

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