Households of faith family, gender, and community in Canada, 1760-1969

Christie, Nancy, 1958- (Added Author).

Summary: "Households of Faith examines a variety of religious traditions with a particular focus on the way in which religious communities define gender identities. The authors explore the boundaries drawn in religious discourse between the private and the public, offering a revisionist perspective on the theoretical framework of separate spheres. By analyzing gender relations within the matrix of the family, they explore both the conflicts and the interdependency of gender roles." "Households of Faith has a broad scope, extending from a consideration of church ritual in New France, to demographic analyses of New Brunswick and the Eastern Townships of Quebec, to the intersection of gender and ethnicity, the construction of family in Aboriginal communities, and the changing definitions of sex roles and the family itself among both clergy and laypeople."--Jacket.

Record details

ISBN: 9780773569683 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 0773569685 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 9780773522718
ISBN: 0773522719
ISBN: 9780773523302
ISBN: 0773523308
Physical Description: electronic resource
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1 online resource (xiii, 381 p.)
Publisher: Montreal ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2002.

Content descriptions

General Note:	Issued as part of the desLibris books collection. CatMonthString:august.17 Multi-User.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references.
Formatted Contents Note:	Introduction: Family, Community, and the Rise of Liberal Society -- Ritual Performance and Parish Sociability: French-Canadian Catholic Families at Mass from the Seventeenth to the Nineteenth Century / Ollivier Hubert -- The Fireside Kingdom: A Mid-Nineteenth-Century Anglican Perspective on Marriage and Parenthood / J.I. Little -- Tribalism, Proselytism, and Pluralism: Protestants, Family, and Denominational Identity in Mid-Nineteenth-Century St. Stephen, New Brunswick / Hannah M. Lane -- Family Fortunes and Religious Identity: The French-Canadian Protestants of South Ely, Quebec, 1850-1901 / Christine Hudon -- Contested Family: Navigating Kin and Culture in Protestant Missions to the Tsimshian, 1857-1896 / Susan Neylan -- Salvation in Indifference: Gendered Expressions of Italian-Canadian Immigrant Catholicity, 1900-1940 / Enrico Carlson Cumbo -- Revisiting "Separate Spheres": Women, Religion, and the Family in Mid-Victorian Brantford, Ontario / Marguerite Van Die -- Redemptive Homes -- Redeeming Choices: Saving the Social in Late-Victorian London, Ontario / Kenneth L. Draper -- Reinventing Christian Masculinity and Fatherhood: The Canadian Protestant Experience, 1900-1920 / Patricia Dirks -- The Emergence of Personalist Feminism: Catholicism and the Marriage-Preparation Movement in Quebec, 1940-1966 / Michael Gauvreau -- Sacred Sex: The United Church and the Privatization of the Family in Post-War Canada / Nancy Christie -- Conclusion: "Patriarchal Piety" and Canada's Liberal Tradition.
Source of Description Note:	Description based on print version record.