Gender and history in Canada

Parr, Joy. (Added Author). Rosenfeld, Mark. (Added Author).

Record details

ISBN: 9780773055414 (pbk.)
ISBN: 077305541X (pbk.)
Physical Description: print
ix, 381 p. : ill ; 23 cm.
Publisher: Toronto : Copp Clark Ltd., c1996.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [377]-381).

Formatted Contents Note:

Gender history and historical practice / Joy Parr -- 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