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Mapping the margins : the family and social discipline in Canada, 1700-1975 / edited by Nancy Christie and Michael Gauvreau.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Families--Canada--History.
- Families.
- Marginality, Social--Canada--History.
- Marginality, Social.
- History.
- Canada.
- Genre:
- Essays.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 407 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2004.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Interrogating the Conjugal Family / Nancy Christie 3
- Broken Families
- 1 Gender, Family, and Mutual Assistance in New France: Widows, Widowers, and Orphans in Eighteenth-Century Quebec / Josette Brun 35
- 2 A "Painful Dependence": Female Begging Letters and the Familial Economy of Obligation / Nancy Christie 69
- 3 Itineraries of Marriage and Widowhood in Nineteenth-Century Montreal / Bettina Bradbury 103
- 4 Marginal by Definition? Stepchildren in Quebec, 1866-1920 / Peter Gossage 141
- Bachelors and Spinsters
- 5 The Invention of the Margin as an Invention of the Family: The Case of Rural Quebec in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries / Ollivier Hubert 183
- 6 The Peddler's Tale: Radical Religion and Family Marginality in the Journal of Ralph Merry, 1804-1863 / J.I. Little 209
- 7 "Old Maidism Itself": Spinsterhood in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Literary and Life-Writing Texts from Maritime Canada / Gwendolyn Davies 235
- 8 Matthews and Marillas: Bachelors and Spinsters in Prince Edward Island in 1881 / Michele Stairs 247
- Institutions and Marginality
- 9 The Lunatic Fringe: Families, Madness, and Institutional Confinement in Victorian Ontario / James Moran, David Wright, Mat Savelli 277
- 10 Orphans in Quebec: On the Margins of Which Family? / Denyse Baillargeon 305
- 11 Nova Scotia and Its Unmarried Mothers, 1945-1975 / Suzanne Morton 327
- 12 Grizzled Old Men and Lonely Widows: Constructing the Single Elderly as a Social Problem in Canada's Welfare State, 1945-1967 / James Struthers 349
- Conclusion: The Family as Pathology: Psychology, Social Science, and History Construct the Nuclear Family, 1945-1980 / Michael Gauvreau 383.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0773526986
- OCLC:
- 53396518
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