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035 _a(DE-B1597)9781442678712
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035 _a(OCoLC)944177649
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072 7 _aLIT004080
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082 0 4 _a813.009/352042
084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aDean, Misao
_eautore
245 1 0 _aPractising Femininity :
_bDomestic Realism and the Performance of Gender in Early Canadian Fiction /
_cMisao Dean.
264 1 _aToronto :
_bUniversity of Toronto Press,
_c[1998]
264 4 _c©1998
300 _a1 online resource (160 p.)
336 _atext
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520 _aFemininity 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 in which 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 which seem to transgress the feminine ideal ? the difficulties of 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 which emphasized love of home and adherence to duty; New Women and Suffrage writers attributed sexuality to a biological desire to reproduce; in the work of Sinclair Ross, the feminine ideal was moulded by prevailing Freudian models of femininity.This study is grounded in the most important current gender theories, and will interest Canadian literary scholars, feminist historians and theoreticians, and students of women?s studies.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 01. Nov 2023)
650 0 _aCanadian fiction
_xHistory and criticism.
650 0 _aCanadian fiction
_xWomen authors
_xHistory and criticism.
650 0 _aDomestic fiction
_xHistory and criticism.
650 0 _aFemininity in literature.
650 0 _aWomen and literature
_zCanada.
650 0 _aWomen in literature.
650 7 _aLITERARY CRITICISM / Canadian.
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850 _aIT-RoAPU
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