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Mapping the Margins : The Family and Social Discipline in Canada, 1700-1975

Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2014

Online-Ressource (421 p)

Englisch

""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Contributors""; ""Introduction Interrogating the Conjugal Family""; ""broken families""; ""Introduction""; ""1 Gender, Family, and Mutual Assistance in New France Widows, Widowers, and Orphans in Eighteenth- Century Quebec""; ""2 A “ Painful Dependence� Female Begging Letters and the Familial Economy of Obligation""; ""3 Itineraries of Marriage and Widowhood in Nineteenth- Century Montreal""; ""4 Marginal by Definition? Stepchildren in Quebec, 1866� 1920""; ""bachelors and spinsters""; ""Introduction""

""5 The Invention of the Margin as an Invention of the Family The Case of Rural Quebec in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries""""6 The Peddler�s Tale Radical Religion and Family Marginality in the Journal of Ralph Merry, 1804� 1863""; ""7 “ Old Maidism Itself� Spinsterhood in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth- Century Literary and Life- Writing Texts from Maritime Canada""; ""8 Matthews and Marillas Bachelors and Spinsters in Prince Edward Island in 1881""; ""institutions and marginality""; ""Introduction""

""9 The Lunatic Fringe Families, Madness, and Institutional Confinement in Victorian Ontario""""10 Orphans in Quebec On the Margin of Which Family?""; ""11 Nova Scotia and Its Unmarried Mothers, 1945� 1975""; ""12 Grizzled Old Men and Lonely Widows Constructing the Single Elderly as a Social Problem in Canada�s Welfare State, 1945� 1967""; ""Conclusion: The Family as Pathology Psychology, Social Science, and History Construct the Nuclear Family, 1945� 1980""

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Print version: Mapping the Margins : The Family and Social Discipline in Canada, 1700-1975

978-0-7735-2698-3

978-0-7735-2698-3 (ISBN der Printausgabe)

978-0-7735-7185-3 ( : 127.23 (NL))

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Families ; Canada ; History ; Famille ; Canada ; Histoire ; Marginalité ; Canada ; History ; Marginality, Social ; Canada ; History ; Electronic books

Contributors include Denyse Baillargeon (Université de Montréal), Bettina Bradbury (York University), Josette Brun (Université Laval), Nancy Christie (Hamilton), Gwendolyn Davies (University of New Brunswick), Michael Gauvreau (McMaster University), Peter Gossage (Université de Sherbrooke), Ollivier Hubert (Université de Montréal), Jack Little (Simon Fraser University), James Moran (University of Prince Edward Island), Suzanne Morton (McGill University), Matt Savelli (McMaster University), Michele Stairs (York University), James Struthers (Trent University), and David Wright (McMaster University).