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Title Mapping the margins : the family and social discipline in Canada, 1700-1975 / edited by Nancy Christie and Michael Gauvreau
Published Montreal, Que. : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2004

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 407 pages) : illustrations
Contents Broken families. Gender, family, and mutual assistance in New France: widows, widowers, and orphans in eighteenth-century Quebec / Josette Brun ; A "painful dependence": female begging letters and the familial economy of obligation / Nancy Christie ; Itineraries of marriage and widowhood in nineteenth-century Montreal / Bettina Bradbury ; Marginal by definition? stepchildren in Quebec, 1866-1920/ Peter Gossage -- Bachelors and spinsters. The invention of the margin as an invention of the family: the case of rural Quebec in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries / Ollivier Hubert ; The peddler's tale: radical religion and family marginality in the journal of Ralph Merry, 1804-1863 / J.I. Little ; "Old maidism itself": spinsterhood in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century literary and life-writing texts from maritime Canada / Gwendolyn Davies ; Matthews and Marillas: bachelors and spinsters in Prince Edward Island in 1881 / Michele Stairs -- Institutions and marginality. The lunatic fringe: families, madness, and institutional confinement in Victorian Ontario / James Moran, David Wright, and Mat Savelli ; Orphans in Quebec: on the margins of which family? Denyse Baillargeon ; Nova Scotia and its unmarried mothers, 1945-1975 / Suzanne Morton ; Grizzled old men and lonely widows: constructing the single elderly as a social problem in Canada's welfare state, 1945-1967 / James Struthers ; The family as pathology: psychology, social science and history construct the nuclear family, 1945-1980 / Michael Gauvreau
Summary 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)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Print version record
Subject Families -- Canada.
Marginality, Social -- Canada -- History
Families -- Canada -- History
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS -- Alternative Family.
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS -- Reference.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- Marriage & Family.
Families
Marginality, Social
Familienpolitik
Sozialpolitik
Famille -- Canada -- Histoire.
Marginaux -- Canada -- Histoire.
Famille.
Structure familiale.
Marginalité sociale.
Veuvage.
Mariage.
Histoire.
Canada
Kanada
Canada.
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
Author Gauvreau, Michael, 1956-
Christie, Nancy, 1958-
LC no. 2004541260
ISBN 9780773571853
077357185X
1282861794
9781282861794
9786612861796
6612861797