Practising Femininity

by Misao Dean

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 in which Canadian texts by Catharine Parr Traill, Susanna Moodie, Nellie McClung, Sinclair Ross, and others work to produce and naturalize femininity in a...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080208138X
• ISBN13: 9780802081384
• Release Date: July 1998
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"