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Page 71
... colonies , the Caribbean , and Europe . At the time of the marriage of Anne LePrince to Sylvain Leblanc , how- ever , these events were some years in the future . The first intima- tions that the lives of the couple would be affected by ...
... colonies , the Caribbean , and Europe . At the time of the marriage of Anne LePrince to Sylvain Leblanc , how- ever , these events were some years in the future . The first intima- tions that the lives of the couple would be affected by ...
Page 125
... colonies the personality of the individual and the immediate challenge of the day were more important than social conventions about gender - roles . Yet however pragmatic village life might be , however scornful of modes and manners ...
... colonies the personality of the individual and the immediate challenge of the day were more important than social conventions about gender - roles . Yet however pragmatic village life might be , however scornful of modes and manners ...
Page 128
... colonies - it is impossible to select any single vision of femininity to represent the approved norm for women within British North America at the opening of the nineteenth century . As the years of the nineteenth century go by and the ...
... colonies - it is impossible to select any single vision of femininity to represent the approved norm for women within British North America at the opening of the nineteenth century . As the years of the nineteenth century go by and the ...
Contents
Changing Perceptions | 7 |
The Immediate Questioning | 13 |
Looking for the Roots of our Discontent | 31 |
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