ISBN:
0802007252
,
0802076718
Language:
English
Pages:
XI, 304 S.
Series Statement:
Studies in gender and history
DDC:
305.3/09713
Keywords:
Geschichte 1700-1800
;
Geschichte 1800-1900
;
Geschichte 1791-1850
;
Rôle selon le sexe - Ontario - Histoire - 18e siècle
;
Rôle selon le sexe - Ontario - Histoire - 19e siècle
;
Alltag, Brauchtum
;
Geschichte
;
Politik
;
Sex role History 18th century
;
Sex role History 19th century
;
Politik
;
Sprache
;
Geschlechtsunterschied
;
Religion
;
Ontario - Moeurs et coutumes
;
Ontario - Politique et gouvernement - 1791-1841
;
Ontario - Politique et gouvernement - 1841-1867
;
Ontario - Religion - 18e siècle
;
Ontario - Religion - 19e siècle
;
Ontario Politics and government
;
Ontario Religion 18th century
;
Ontario Religion 19th century
;
Ontario Social life and customs
;
Oberkanada
;
Hochschulschrift
;
Hochschulschrift
;
Oberkanada
;
Politik
;
Geschlechtsunterschied
;
Sprache
;
Geschichte 1791-1850
;
Oberkanada
;
Religion
;
Geschlechtsunterschied
;
Sprache
;
Geschichte 1791-1850
Abstract:
"Gendered images and symbols were of central importance to public debate about loyalty, political conflict, and religious participation in early Ontario. Drawing on a wide range of international scholarship in feminist theory, women's and gender history, and cultural studies, Cecilia Morgan analyses political and religious languages in the Upper Canadian press, both secular and religious, and other material published in the colony from the 1790s to the 1850s. She examines constructs and concepts of gender in a wide number of areas: narratives of the War of 1812, political struggles over responsible government in the 1820s and 1830s, evangelical religious discourses throughout these decades, and related discussions of manners and moral behaviour. She also considers the relations between religion and politics in the 1840s, pointing to the continuous struggles of Upper Canadians to define and fix the meanings of public and private and their use of masculinity and femininity to signify these realms. She suggests as well that scholars of gender and colonial history need to consider a more nuanced way of understanding social formation in the colony through an examination of the representation of voluntary organizations. The book also examines relations of gender, class, and race as they affected the cultural development of the middle class." "Morgan concludes that while seemingly hegemonic definitions of gender relations emerged over this period - with men and masculinity identified with politics and loyalty to the colonial state and imperial connection, and women and femininity linked to the home - the meanings of gender and gendered imagery differed according to their contexts. Colonial society's attempts to make sharp delineations between the public and the private were rarely successful and were marked by numerous tensions and contradictions."--BOOK JACKET.
Note:
Teilw. zugl.: Univ. of Toronto, Diss.
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