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Pursuing Play: Women's Leisure in Small-Town Ontario, 1870-1914

Pursuing Play: Women's Leisure in Small-Town Ontario, 1870-1914 - Paperback

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Availability:In StockContributor:Rebecca BeausaertPublish date:2024-09-13Pages:414
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Manitoba PressISBN-13:9781772840773ISBN-10:1772840777UPC:9781772840773Book Category:HistoryBook Subcategory:Women, Canada, Social HistoryBook Topic:Provincial, Territorial & LocalSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.93 inchesWeight:1.3404Product ID:SCWWEQ2HFC

Levelling the playing field

Life in the Canadian countryside at the turn of the twentieth century is often generalized as insular, backwards, and arduous. These assumptions are redressed in Rebecca Beausaert's Pursuing Play, which highlights the complexity of small-town culture through a lively examination of women's efforts to negotiate space for themselves and their leisure pursuits.

Amply illustrated, Pursuing Play draws on diaries, letters, newspapers, and census records to investigate women's recreational activities in three southern Ontario towns--Dresden, Tillsonburg, and Elora--between 1870-1914. Though women's recreational choices were restricted by pervasive ideas about propriety, Beausaert reveals how they increasingly spearheaded both formal and informal clubs, events, and social gatherings, and integrated them into their daily lives.

In telling the story of what small-town women did for fun while navigating social hierarchies, nurturing ties of kinship and friendship, and advancing community development, Pursuing Play adds a new dimension to Canadian histories of gender, leisure, and popular culture. Encompassing public and private pastimes, the growth of sports, the phenomenon of "armchair travelling," and the ease with which recreation can slip from reputable to disreputable, this rich study uncovers how gender, class, and ethnicity shaped the nature and scope of women's leisure in small-town Ontario and beyond.


Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Manitoba PressISBN-13:9781772840773ISBN-10:1772840777UPC:9781772840773Book Category:HistoryBook Subcategory:Women, Canada, Social HistoryBook Topic:Provincial, Territorial & LocalSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.93 inchesWeight:1.3404Product ID:SCWWEQ2HFC
Publisher: University of Manitoba Press

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