Cecily Devereux reconsiders the extent to which McClung's enduring legacy of crusading for women's rights is founded on the ideas of British eugenicists such as Francis Galton and Caleb Saleeby and implicated in the passage of eugenical legislation in Canada. In a critical study of Painted Fires, the Pearlie Watson books, and several short stories, Devereux attempts to understand McClung's fiction in terms of its engagement with a politics of "race" and nation and constructions of specifically "racial" impurities that many women saw themselves as uniquely able to "cure."
Authors
- Bibliography, etc. Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
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- CaOOCEL
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 813/.52
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 22
- General Note
- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- Geographic Area Code
- n-cn---
- ISBN
- 9780773573048 0773529373
- LCCN
- PR9199.3.M4237
- LCCN Item number
- Z64 2005eb
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- CaBNVSL
- Original cataloging agency
- CaOONL
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (174 p.)
- Published in
- Canada
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- CaOOCEL
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- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
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- (CaBNVSL)slc00207821 (OCoLC)243600906 (CaOOCEL)407661
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- Mode of access: World Wide Web
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- CaOONL
Table of Contents
- Contents 8
- Acknowledgments 10
- Introduction: McClung in the Third Wave: Revisiting the "Legacy" 14
- PART ONE: "TO SERVE AND SAVE THE RACE": MCCLUNG, MATERNAL FEMINISM, AND THE PRINCIPLES OF EUGENICS 28
- 1. Changing Perspectives of Maternal Feminism: Reconsidering the New Woman and the Mother of the Race 30
- 2. "Motherhood on the Eugenic Basis": How the Anti-Feminist Principles of Selective Breeding Became "One with the Woman Question" 41
- 3 Locating McClung's Eugenic Feminism: Didactic Fiction and Racial Education 55
- PART TWO: READING MATERNALISM IN MCCLUNG'S FICTION: THE CULTURE OF IMPERIAL MOTHERHOOD 62
- 4 "Finger-Posts on the Way to Right Living": Mothering the Prairies 64
- 5 Pearlie Watson and Eugenic Instruction in the Watson Trilogy: How to Be a Maternal Messiah of the New World 74
- PART THREE: EUGENIC PLOTS: FEMINIST WORK AND THE "RACIAL POISONS" 86
- 6 "The Great White Plague" in "The Last Best West": Tuberculosis, Temperance, and Woman Suffrage in Purple Springs 88
- 7 "In a Chinese Restaurant, Working at Night": Painted Fires, White Slavery, and the Protection of the Imperial Mother 100
- PART FOUR: EUGENIC FEMINISM AND "INDIAN WORK" 122
- 8 Re-Forming "Indianness": The Eugenic Politics of Assimilation 124
- 9 "Called to [the] Mission": Interpellating Métis Mothers in "Red and White" and "Babette" 136
- Epilogue 148
- Notes 152
- Bibliography 170
- Index 182
- A 182
- B 182
- C 182
- D 183
- E 183
- F 183
- G 183
- H 183
- I 183
- J 183
- K 183
- L 183
- M 183
- N 184
- O 184
- P 184
- R 185
- S 185
- T 185
- U 185
- V 185
- W 185
