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Medical men, masculine respectability, and the contest for power in mid-nineteenth century Quebec
No full textThe author examines the five official investigations into Quebec City's Marine and Emigrant Hospital between 1839 and 1853, largely instigated by doctors, some of whom worked at the hospital. She found that the resulting inquiries' documentation, open letters and memoirs provide a rich source of information about doctors' contests for power, representations of self and others, and everyday life in Quebec City's medical community at mid-nineteenth century. The author focuses on three medical doctors associated with the hospital of that era -- James Douglas (1800-1886), William Marsden (1807-1885), and Joseph Painchaud (178701871). She points out that these three doctors recorded characterizations of each other as ethnically and religiously suspect, inherently corrupt, and untrustworthy in their positions of authority
[Review of the book Sojourning sisters: The lives and letters of Jessie and Annie McQueen, by Jean Barman]
No full text[Review of the book Beyond the State: The Colonial Medical Service in British Africa by Anna Greenwood (ed.)]
No full text[Review of the book Making up the state: Women in 20th-Century Atlantic Canada, by Janet Guildford & Suzanne Morton]
No full textCanada and the British empire: a review essay
No full text01. Entry Number: Citation. Period: 18c-19cSource type: Electronic(1)http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ahl&AN=A800049692.01&loginpage=Login.asp&site=ehost-liv
[Review of the book Mill girls and strangers: Single women's independent migration in England, Scotland, and the United States, 1850-1881, by Wendy M. Gordon]
No full textA new class of women for the colonies: the imperial colonist and the construction of empire
No full textThe Imperial Colonist, a widely disseminated journal founded in 1902, was produced by women and designed to promote female emigration to Britain's colonies and to educate Britons and colonists about the empire. Members of female emigration societies were elite British women with close ties to influential men within the Anglican Church and the British and Dominion governments. They largely shared their male counterparts' political views, their sense of class and racial superiority, and their conviction that British imperialism was a civilizing, enlightening force. However, unlike other emigration promoters, female emigration societies' members were determined to settle large numbers of women from above the working class in the colonies. Beginning in the 1860's, they stressed that the empire's proper domestication hinged on the civilizing power of British women of gentle birth. Given the gendered nature of labor economy, domestic service, as The Imperial Colonist reveals, was the means to achieve the empire's domestication. Female emigration societies had to convince the colonies that employing gentlewomen as educated home help made sense, and it had to sell such employment to gentlewomen. Home help was promoted as a stepping-stone to better opportunities, financial stability, sanctified heterosexual love, and good fun, as gentlewomen in the colonies were unfettered by archaic social conventions. Few ideal candidates stepped forward, and even those from the ideal social background required training in their new roles.Documentation: Based on issues of The Imperial Colonist published between 1903 and 1925 and other primary and secondary sources; 67 notes.; Abstracter: R. SilvaSource type: Electronic(1
[Review of the book A happy holiday: English Canadians and transatlantic tourism, 1870-1930, by Cecilia Morgan]
No full text[Review of the book From white Australia to Woomera: the story of Australian immigration, by James Jupp]
No full text[Review of the book Uprooted: The shipment of poor children to Canada, 1867-1917, by Roy Parker]
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