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Gendered Pasts

Historical Essays in Femininity and Masculinity in Canada

edited by Kathryn McPherson, Cecilia Morgan & Nancy Forestell

Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Initial publish date
Nov 2003
Category
General, Gender Studies
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780802086907
    Publish Date
    Nov 2003
    List Price
    $45.95
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780195414493
    Publish Date
    Feb 1999
    List Price
    $24.95
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781442658912
    Publish Date
    Dec 2003
    List Price
    $33.95

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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.

About the authors

Kathryn McPherson is an associate professor in the Department of History and the School of Women's Studies at York University.

Kathryn McPherson's profile page

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).

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Nancy M. Forestell is an associate professor in the Department of History at St Francis Xavier University.

Nancy Forestell's profile page