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  1. Practising femininity
    domestic realism and the performance of gender in early Canadian fiction
    Author: Dean, Misao
    Published: c1998
    Publisher:  University of Toronto Press, Toronto [Ont.]

    Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden / Hochschulbibliothek Amberg
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 1442678712; 9780802081384; 9781442678712
    RVK Categories: HQ 4060
    Series: Theory/culture series
    Subjects: Roman canadien-anglais / Histoire et critique; Féminité dans la littérature; Femmes dans la littérature; Frauenprosa; Geschlechterrolle; Geschichte 1830-1940; LITERARY CRITICISM / Canadian; LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General; Frauenprosa; Geschlechterrolle; Canadian fiction / Women authors; Domestic fiction; Femininity in literature; Realism in literature; Sex role in literature; Women and literature; Canadian fiction; Domestic fiction; Women and literature; Femininity in literature; Sex role in literature; Realism in literature; Geschlechterrolle; Frauenprosa; Englisch
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (139 p.)
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    Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002

    Includes bibliographical references (p. [125]-134) and index

  2. Practising femininity
    domestic realism and the performance of gender in early Canadian fiction
    Published: 2010
    Publisher:  University of Toronto Press, Toronto [Ont.]

    ""Conclusion: Citing and Reciting""""NOTES""; ""WORKS CITED""; ""INDEX""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""W"" ""CONTENTS"";... more

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    ""Conclusion: Citing and Reciting""""NOTES""; ""WORKS CITED""; ""INDEX""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""W"" ""CONTENTS""; ""ACKNOWLEDGMENTS""; ""Introduction: Practising Femininity""; ""1. The Female Emigrant's Guide as the Mending Basket of Domestic Ideology""; ""2. The Broken Mirror of Domestic Ideology: Femininity as Textual Practice in Susanna Moodie's Autobiographical Works""; ""3. Translated by Desire: Romance and Politics in Rosanna Leprohon's Antoinette de Mirecourt""; ""4. Explain Yourself: New Woman Fiction in Canada""; ""5. Voicing the Voiceless: The Practice of 'Self-expression' in Nellie McClung's Fiction and Her Autobiography""; ""6. Femininity and the Real in As for Me and My House"" Annotation Femininity in Colonial Societies is a Particularly Contested Element of the sex/gender system while it draws on a conservative belief in universal and continuous values, it is undermined by the liberal rhetoric of freedom characteristic of the New World. Practising Femininity analyses the ways that Canadian texts by Catharine Parr Traill, Susanna Moodie, Nellie McClung, Sinclair Ross, and others work to produce and naturalize femininity in a colonial setting. Drawing on Judith Butler's definition of gender as performance, Misao Dean shows how practices that seem to transgress the feminine ideal -- emigration, physical labour, autobiographical writing, work for wages, sexual desire, and suffrage activism -- were justified by Canadian writers as legitimate expressions of an unvarying feminine inner self. Early Canadian writers cited a feminine gender ideal that emphasized love of home and adherence to duty; New Women and Suffrage writers defined sexuality as part of a biological desire to reproduce; in the work of Sinclair Ross, the feminine ideal was moulded by current Freudian models of femininity. This study is grounded in the most important current theories in gender, and will interest Canadian literary scholars, feminist historians and theoreticians, and students of women's studies

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781442678712; 1442678712
    Other identifier:
    9780802081384
    Series: Theory
    Theory/culture
    Subjects: Canadian fiction; Domestic fiction; Women and literature; Canadian fiction (English); Roman canadien-anglais; Féminité dans la littérature; Femmes dans la littérature; Femininity in literature; Sex role in literature; Realism in literature; Canadian fiction; Domestic fiction; Women and literature; Canadian fiction (English); Canadian fiction; Domestic fiction; Femmes dans la littérature; Féminité dans la littérature; Roman canadien-anglais; Women and literature; Femininity in literature; Realism in literature; Sex role in literature; LITERARY CRITICISM ; Canadian; LITERARY CRITICISM ; American ; General; Canadian fiction ; Women authors; Domestic fiction; Women and literature; Frauenprosa; Geschlechterrolle; Geschichte 1830-1940; Criticism, interpretation, etc
    Scope: Online Ressource (139 p.)
    Notes:

    Includes bibliographical references (p. [125]-134) and index. - Description based on print version record

    Description based on print version record

    Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002

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  3. Practising femininity
    domestic realism and the performance of gender in early Canadian fiction
    Author: Dean, Misao
    Published: 1998
    Publisher:  University of Toronto Press, Toronto [Ont.] [u.a.] ; EBSCO Industries, Inc., Birmingham, AL, USA

    Bibliothek der Hochschule Mainz, Untergeschoss
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781442678712; 1442678712
    Series: Theory/culture
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (139 pages)
    Notes:

    Includes bibliographical references (pages 125-134) and index