Suchergebnisse

"Of pleasing countenance and pleasant manners" : John Norton's transatlantic voyages -- Missionary moments and transatlantic celebrity, 1830-60 : the Anishinaabeg of Upper Canada -- Intimate entanglements within empire -- Intimate networks and maps of domesticity : the North West fur trade -- Playing "Indian" : Ojibwe performers, London, 1840s -- Politics and performance at empire's height -- An ending -- and an epilogue

"The effects of empires, as well as their lingering presence in today's world, have become a major preoccupation for scholars in the early twentieth-first century academy. The British Empire is of particular focus because of the rapidity and range of British imperial expansion over this period. This short book looks at the spread of settler colonies within the British Empire over the course of the 19th century, specifically those in New Zealand, Canada, South Africa, and Australia."--

Introduction : conceptualizing Canada's gendered pasts / Kathryn McPherson, Cecilia Morgan, and Nancy M. Forestell -- When bad men conspire, good men must unite! : gender and political discourses in upper Canada, 1820's-1830's / Cecilia Morgan -- The homeless, the whore, the drunkard, and the disorderly : contours of female vagrancy in the Montreal courts, 1810-1842 / Mary Ann Poutanen -- No double standard? : leisure, sex, and sin in upper Canadian church discipline records, 1800-1860 / Lynne Marks -- It was only a matter of passion : masculinity and sexual danger / Karen Dubinsky and Adam Givertz -- Gender and work in Lekwammen families, 1843-1970 / John Lutz -- To take an orphan : gender and family roles following the 1917 Halifax explosion / Suzanne Morton -- A fit and proper person : the moral regulation of single mothers in Ontario, 1920-1940 / Margaret Hillyard Little -- The miner's wife : working-class femininity in a masculine context, 1920-1950 / Nancy M. Forestell -- Sex fiends or swish kids? : gay men in Hush Free Press, 1946-1956 / Eric Setliff -- The case of the kissing nurse : femininity, sexuality, and Canadian nursing, 1900-1970 / Kathryn McPherson -- Defending honour, demanding respect : manly discourse and gendered practice in two construction strikes, Toronto, 1960-1961 / Franca Iacovetta.