Households of Faith: Family, Gender, and Community in Canada, 1760-1969 Volume 44

by Nancy Christie

Book Overview

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. Contributors include Nancy Christie, Enrico Cumbo (CBC), Patricia Dirks (Brock...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0773522719
• ISBN13: 9780773522718
• Release Date: December 2001
• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Length: 408 Pages