Chapter
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Front Matter
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Nancy Christie
Chapters in this book
- Front Matter i
- Contents v
- Acknowledgments vii
- Contributors ix
- Introduction 3
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Broken Families
- Introduction 27
- Gender, Family, and Mutual Assistance in New France 35
- A “Painful Dependence” 69
- Itineraries of Marriage and Widowhood in Nineteenth-Century Montreal 103
- Marginal by Definition? 141
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Bachelors and Spinsters
- Introduction 173
- The Invention of the Margin as an Invention of the Family 183
- The Peddler’s Tale 209
- “Old Maidism Itself” 235
- Matthews and Marillas 247
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Institutions and Marginality
- Introduction 271
- The Lunatic Fringe 277
- Orphans in Quebec 305
- Nova Scotia and Its Unmarried Mothers, 1945–1975 327
- Grizzled Old Men and Lonely Widows 349
- Conclusion: The Family as Pathology 384
Chapters in this book
- Front Matter i
- Contents v
- Acknowledgments vii
- Contributors ix
- Introduction 3
-
Broken Families
- Introduction 27
- Gender, Family, and Mutual Assistance in New France 35
- A “Painful Dependence” 69
- Itineraries of Marriage and Widowhood in Nineteenth-Century Montreal 103
- Marginal by Definition? 141
-
Bachelors and Spinsters
- Introduction 173
- The Invention of the Margin as an Invention of the Family 183
- The Peddler’s Tale 209
- “Old Maidism Itself” 235
- Matthews and Marillas 247
-
Institutions and Marginality
- Introduction 271
- The Lunatic Fringe 277
- Orphans in Quebec 305
- Nova Scotia and Its Unmarried Mothers, 1945–1975 327
- Grizzled Old Men and Lonely Widows 349
- Conclusion: The Family as Pathology 384
