11 Nova Scotia and Its Unmarried Mothers, 1945–1975

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Contributors ix
5. Introduction 3
6. Broken Families
7. Introduction 27
8. Gender, Family, and Mutual Assistance in New France 35
9. A “Painful Dependence” 69
10. Itineraries of Marriage and Widowhood in Nineteenth-Century Montreal 103
11. Marginal by Definition? 141
12. Bachelors and Spinsters
13. Introduction 173
14. The Invention of the Margin as an Invention of the Family 183
15. The Peddler’s Tale 209
16. “Old Maidism Itself” 235
17. Matthews and Marillas 247
18. Institutions and Marginality
19. Introduction 271
20. The Lunatic Fringe 277
21. Orphans in Quebec 305
22. Nova Scotia and Its Unmarried Mothers, 1945–1975 327
23. Grizzled Old Men and Lonely Widows 349
24. Conclusion: The Family as Pathology 384