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| Mapping the Margins: The Family and Social Discipline in Canada, 1700-1975
ISBN: 9780773571853
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / McGill-Queen''s University Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Family -- Canada -- History; Marginality social -- Canada -- History;
Those in marginal family formations - spinsters, bachelors, orphans, unmarried mothers, the insane, and the aged - have largely been overlooked by historians. Building on the new theoretical proposition that the family must be seen as a regulatory institution of unequal hierarchies of age, gender, and social status, Mapping the Margins challenges the view that the nuclear family was dominant in Canada and provides significant new evidence to help understand family life historically. In constructing broader arguments about the changing relationship between the family, the individual, and the state, this innovative volume charts a new interpretive framework that sees the family as a central arbiter in constructing identities and politics in the modernizing world.
Christie Nancy :
Nancy Christie is professor, history, Trent University and the author of several prize-winning books, including A Full-Orbed Christianity: The Protestant Churches and Social Welfare in Canada, 1900-1940, and Engendering the State: Family, Work, and WelfaGauvreau Michael :
Michael Gauvreau, professor of history at McMaster University, is the author and editor of numerous works, including Mapping the Margins: Families and Social Disciplines in Canada, 1700-1970 and Cultures of Citizenship in Postwar Canada, 1940-1955.Nancy Christie and Michael Gauvreau are the authors of the award-winning A Full-Orbed Christianity: The Protestant Churches and Social Welfare in Canada, 1900-1940 and co-editors of Cultures of Citizenship in Postwar Canada, 1940-1955. Nancy Christie is a |
