Reading Lists

Canada

Political History

Jeffrey McNairn, The Capacity to Judge. Tina Merrill Loo, Making Law, Order, and Authority in British Columbia, 1821-1871.   
Sean Mills, The Empire Within.
Alan Taylor, The Civil War of 1812.
Donald Fyson, Magistrates, Police, and People.
Allan Greer, The Patriots and the People.
Bruce Curtis, Building the Educational State.
Jack Little, State and Society.
Gordon Stewart, The Origins of Canadian Politics.
H.V. Nelles, The Politics of Development.
Matthew Evenden, Fish versus Power.
Sean Cadigan, Newfoundland and Labrador.
 

Social History

Joy Parr, Sensing Changes.
Adele Perry, On the Edge of Empire.
Naomi Griffiths, From Migrant to Acadian.
Cecilia Morgan, Public Men and Virtuous Women.
Mary-Ellen Kelm, A Wilder West.
Timothy John Stanley, Contesting White Supremacy.
Sharon Wall, The Nurture of Nature.
Denyse Baillargeon, Making Do.
Willeen G. Keough. The Slender Thread.
Steve Penfold, The Donut.
Allan Greer, Peasant, Lord, and Merchant
Joy Parr, The Gender of Breadwinners.
Lynne Marks, Revivals and Roller Rinks.
Jack Little, Borderland Religion.
Sherry Olson and Patricia A. Thornton, Peopling the North American City.
Roydon Loewen, Hidden Worlds.
Béatrice Craig. Backwoods Consumers and Homespun Capitalists.
Cole Harris, Resettlement of British Columbia.
Tina Loo, States of Nature.
John Sandlos, Hunters At The Margin.
 

Cultural History

Allan Greer, Mohawk Saint.
Keith Walden, Becoming Modern in Toronto.
Christopher Dummitt, The Manly Modern.
H. V. Nelles, The Art of Nation-Building.
Ian McKay, The Quest of the Folk.
Greg Gillespie, Hunting for Empire.
Stuart Henderson, Making the Scene.
Gillian Poulter, Becoming Native in a Foreign Land.
Karen Dubinsky, The Second Greatest Disappointment.
Patricia Jasen, Wild Things.
Carl Berger, Science, God, and Nature in Victorian Canada.
Jonathan Vance, Death So Noble
   

Sex and Gender 

Gender, Sexuality, and the Law 

Backhouse, Constance. Carnal Crimes. 
Sangster, Joan. Regulating Girls and Women.
Erickson, Lesley. Westward Bound.
Mayeri, Serena. Reasoning from Race.
Chenier, Elise Rose. Strangers in Our Midst.
Myers, Tamara. Caught: Montreal’s Modern Girls and the Law, 1869-1945.
Laite, Julia. Common Prostitutes and Ordinary Citizens.
Bettina Bradbury, Wife to Widow.  

Gender, Sexuality, and Violence  

Dubinsky, Karen. Improper Advances.
Wiener, Martin. Men of Blood.
Steven Stowe, “The Touchiness of the Gentleman Planter”
Elliot Gorn, “Gouge and Bite, Pull Hair and Scratch”
Willeen Keough, “Now You Vagabond Whore”
Wamsley and Kossuth, “Fighting it out in Nineteenth-Century Upper Canada/Canada West”
Humphries, Mark. “War’s Long Shadow”
Amnesty International. No More Stolen Sisters
Burtch & Haskell. Get That Freak.
Jasmin Jawani. Discourses of Denial.
 

Constructing Heteronormativity and the Normal Family 

 Jackson, Paul. One of the Boys.
Lewis, Carolyn Herbst. Prescription for Heterosexuality.
Kinsman and Gentile. The Canadian War on Queers.
Sarah Carter, The Importance of Being Monogamous.
Nancy Cott, Public Vows.
Gary Kinsman. “‘Character weaknesses’ and ‘fruit machines’”
Margaret Little “The pecker detectors are back”
Jane Nicholas “Celebration of the Jubilee”  

Creating Knowledge about Gender and Sexuality

Jensen, Robin E. Dirty Words.
Freeman, Susan Kathleen. Sex Goes to School.
Meyerowitz, Joanne J. How Sex Changed.
Hayden, Wendy. Evolutionary Rhetoric.
Katz, Jonathan. The Invention of Heterosexuality.
Warsh, Cheryl Lynn Krasnick. Gender, Health, and Popular Culture.
Laura Mulvey. “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Change”
Paoletti, Jo Barraclough. Pink and Blue.
Gleason, Mona. “Psychology and the Construction of the “Normal” Family”
Marshall, Barbara. “Climacteric Redux?”
Belisle, Donica. “Crazy for Bargains”
Findlay, Deborah. “Discovering Sex”  

Theory 

Stoler, Ann Laura. Race and the Education of Desire.
Foucault, Michel. The History of Sexuality. 1, The Will to Knowledge.
Maynard, Steven. “Queer musings on masculinity and history.”
Tosh, John. “What Should Historians do with Masculinity?”
Judith Butler, Gender Trouble.
Jagger, Gill. Judith Butler
Hood-Williams, J. and Cealey Harrison, W. “Trouble with Gender”
Marcel Stoetzler, “Subject Trouble: Judith Butler and Dialectics”
Callis, April S. “Playing with Butler and Foucault: Bisexuality and Queer Theory.”
Denise Riley, ‘Am I That Name?’
Joan W. Scott, “Gender: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis”
Gisela Bock, “Challenging Dichotomies: Perspectives on Women’s History”
Joan Sangster, “Beyond Dichotomies”
Dubinsky and Marks, “Beyond Purity: A Response to Sangster”
Joy Parr, “Gender History and Historical Practice”
Davidoff and Hall, Family Fortunes
Michael Kimmel. Manhood in America
Downs, Laura Lee. Writing Gender History.  

 

Gender, Sexuality, and Colonialism

Pickles and Rutherdale. Contact Zones. (edited collection)
Pratt, “Arts of the Contact Zone”
Van Kirk, Sylvia. Many Tender Ties
Brownlie and Korinek. Finding a Way to the Heart (edited collection)
Stoler, A. L. (Ed.). Haunted by Empire (edited collection)
McClintock, Imperial Leather
Anderson, Kay J. Vancouver's Chinatown
Jones, Jacqueline. Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow.
 
 

Indigenous Peoples

Residential Schools

John S. Milloy, A National Crime.
Jacobs, Margaret D. Jacobs, White Mother to a Dark Race.
Tsianina K. Lomawaima, They Called It Prairie Light.
 

Native-Newcomer Relations

Lutz, John S. Lutz, Makúk.
Richard S. Hill, State Authority, Indigenous Autonomy.
Thomas King, The Inconvenient Indian.
Daniel Richter, The Ordeal of the Longhouse.
Susan Neylan, The Heavens Are Changing.
Pekka Hamalainen, The Comanche Empire.
Richard White, The Middle Ground.
William & Mary Quarterly special issue “Revisiting the Middle Ground,” 63: 1 (Jan. 2006):
Susan Sleeper Smith, “Introduction,” 3-8.
Richard White, “Creative Misunderstandings and New Understandings,” 9-14.
Philip Deloria, “What Is the Middle Ground, Anyway?” 15-22.
Catherine Desbarats, “Following ‘The Middle Ground’,” 81-96.
Alexandra Harmon, Rich Indians.
 

Health/Healing/Welfare

Mary-Ellen Kelm, Colonizing Bodies.
Gordon Briscoe, Counting, Health, and Identity.
Suzanne Alchon, A Pest in the Land.
Judith Raftery, Not Part of the Public.
Hugh Shewell, “Enough to Keep Them Alive.”
James B. Waldram, D. Ann Herring, and T. Kue Young. Aboriginal Health in Canada.
Raeburn Lange, May the People Live.
T. Kue Young, Health Care and Cultural Change
David H. DeJong, "If You Knew the Conditions" and Plagues, Politics, and Policy
Maureen K. Lux, Medicine That Walks.
Warwick Anderson, The Collectors of Lost Souls.
Kristen Burnett, Taking Medicine.
Laurie Meijer Drees. Healing Histories.
 

Legislation/Policy

Frank Tough, “As Their Natural Resources Fail.”
Robin Brownlie, A Fatherly Eye.
Keith D. Smith, Liberalism, Surveillance, and Resistance.
 

Treaties/Land

Douglas Harris, Landing Native Fisheries.
Peter Keith Kulchyski and Frank J. Tester, Kiumajut (Talking Back).
Coll Thrush, Native Seattle.
Keith H Basso, Wisdom Sits in Places.
Hans M. Carlson, Home is the Hunter.
Paige Raibmon, Authentic Indians
 

Resistance/methodologies/Indigenous Knowledge

Lina Sunseri, Being Again of One Mind.
Keith Carlson, The Power of Place, the Problem of Time.
Linda Tuhiwai Smith, Decolonizing Methodologies.
Janet Elizabeth Chute, The Legacy of Shingwaukonse.
Cole Harris, Making Native Space.
Gail D MacLeitch, Imperial Entanglements.
Margaret Kovach, Indigenous Methodologies.
Julie Cruikshank, Do Glaciers Listen? 
Philip Joseph Deloria, Indians in Unexpected Places.
 

Gender

Gunlög Maria Fur, A Nation of Women.
Robertson Standing up with Ga’axst’las
Bonita Lawrence, “Real” Indians and Others.