UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO: SUMMER PROGRAMME (HISTORY)

 

HISTORY 350Y: SOCIAL HISTORY OF THE FAMILY (Summer 2000)

classes: Monday & Wednesday 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.

 

INSTRUCTOR: DR. EDGAR-ANDRE MONTIGNY

office hours: Monday and Wednesday 5:00 p.m.-5:45 p.m.  (E-mail: edgara@bestnet.org)

 

ASSIGNMENTS:

 

1) Readings: There will be one or two readings assigned for each class. This material will not

necessarily be presented in the lectures; it will be required for the exam.

2) Book Critique/Review: Students will be expected to read and critique a book from a list of titles.
These critiques should be no more than 5-7 pages and they should conform to the Book

Critique guidelines (to be distributed in class)

3) Research Paper: Students will be expected to prepare a major (16-20 pages) research paper on an aspect of Family History. These papers will be marked for grammar, clarity of writing and organization along with content, argument and analysis. These papers must conform to the How to Write a History Essay handout. (to be distributed in class)

4) Final Exam: A final exam will test students on material presented throughout the course. The exam will consist of essay style questions. Material from both the lectures and the readings will be  required to answer these questions.

5) Marking Scheme: Book Review    (Due June 21)     20%

                                  Research paper  (Due July 31)      40%

                                  Final Exam                                   40%

6) Participation: Students are encouraged to ask questions, debate or discuss course material during the lectures. Student participation is vital to create a dynamic and productive learning environment. The more students contribute to the course, the more everyone can get out of it.

 

RULES AND REGULATIONS:

 

7) Late Penalties: All assignments received after the end of class on the due date will be penalized three (3) marks. Assignments still outstanding after the end of the next class will be penalized an additional five (5) marks for each additional class. This is mainly to be fair to the students who do submit assignments on time. No papers can be accepted after the last day of classes unless official deferred status has been granted. 

8) Extensions: Penalty free extensions will be granted only in extreme circumstances (serious medical/emotional crisis). In most cases a doctor's note will be required. Extensions for other reasons will be considered, but only rarely granted. In most cases, the granting of an extension will only reduce the late penalties, not abolish them entirely. Requests for extensions must be received before the date the assignment is due.

9) Academic Ethics: All work submitted must be the creation of the individual. Plagiarism (taking the thoughts, words, or ideas of another and representing them as your own) is a serious offense and carries penalties varying from failure in an  assignment to debarment from the University. The  central rule to avoid plagiarism is to ensure that you always identify the  source of  ideas, words, or phrases that are not your own. It is also unacceptable to submit work prepared someone else or to submit work for which previous or simultaneous credit has been obtained.

10)Handouts: Please read all handouts. It is your responsibility  to ensure that assignments conform to the guidelines in the handouts. Assignments that do not conform will be penalized.

11)Copies of Notes/Papers: You are required to keep all research notes as well as copies of your papers. You may be required to submit your notes. Not doing so could result in a failure. Also, papers can and do get lost. If this happens, you must be able to supply a second copy (as you are the only person who can do so.)  

 

12)TEXTBOOK/READINGS: (SEE CANADIAN SCHOLAR'S PRESS-

             SOME ITEMS MAY ALSO BE FOUND ON RESERVE)

 

  A) Lori Chambers and Edgar-Andre Montigny (eds.) Family Matters: Papers in Post-Confederation Canadian Family History (Toronto; Canadian Scholar's Press, 1998).($39.95) (available at Canadian Scholar's Press offices (see below for address)

 

  B) History 350Y Social History of the Family (Reprotext)($38.00) (available at Canadian Scholar's Press, suite 1202, 180 Bloor Street West (same building as Bob Miller Books)

 

When purchased together at Canadian Scholar's Press, a special price  for the pair applies.

 

(these items will be placed on short term loan, but you will probably find that it is more convenient to purchase the reprotext. The price of the reprotext is only minimally higher than the cost of photocopying the material yourself (not to mention the time saved).   

 

 

HISTORY 350Y     -SOCIAL HISTORY OF THE FAMILY-

Dr. Edgar-Andre Montigny

 

LECTURE TOPICS AND READINGS:

1)  May 15: Introduction: Changing Definitions of the Family

 

SECTION 1:

SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CHANGE AND THE FAMILY

 

2)  May 17:  Pre-Industrial Families: Land, Law, and Patriarchy (1800-1870)

 

   Reading: (see reprotext)

   Stephanie Coontz, The Social Origins of Private Life: A History of American Families, 1600- 1900 (New York; Verso Books, 1988). see chapter 5: "Work Life and Family Life in an Emerging  Capitalist Order," pp. 161-209.

 

 

Note: May 22nd: Victoria Day Holiday (no class)

 

 

3) May 24 : Industrialization and the Family: Challenges to Patriarchy (1870-1900)

 

   Reading: (see Reprotext)

   Jane Ursel, "The State and the Maintenance of Patriarchy: A Case Study of Family, Labour and Welfare Legislation in Canada," in Family, Economy and State: The Social Reproduction Process Under Capitalism, eds., J. Dickinson and B. Russell (Toronto, 1986):150-91.

           

4) May 29:  Moral Law and the Defense of the Traditional Family (1900-1945)

 

   Reading: (see Reprotext)

   James Snell, "The White Life for Two: The Defence of Marriage and Sexual Morality in Canada 1890-1914," in Canadian Family History: Selected Readings, ed. B. Bradbury (Toronto, 1992): 381-400.

 

5) May 31:  Post-War Society and The Democratic Family (1945-70)

           

    Reading: (see Reprotext)

    Doug Owram, Born at the Right Time: A History of the Baby Boom Generation (Toronto, 1996). see chapter 1: "Home and Family at Mid-Century," pp. 3-30.

 

6) June 5:  The Feminist Critique of the Family and Changing Concepts and Definitions

                  of Family in the 1990's.

           

    Readings: (see reprotext and textbook)

    Wendy Atkin, "Babies of the World Unite: The Early Day-Care Movement and Family Formation  in the 1970's, Family Matters. pp. 57-71.

 

    Bonnie Fox and Doreen Fumia, "Pathbreakers: Some Unconventional Families of the 90's," in Family Patters, Gender Relations (Toronto; Oxford University Press, 1993):355-66.

 

 

 

 

 

SECTION 2:

FAMILY FORMATION: STARTING OUT

 

7) June 7: Courtship, Love and Marriage

 

   Reading: (textbook)

   Anne Gagnon, "The Courtship of Franco-Albertan Women, 1890-1940," Family Matters. pp. 177-98.

  

8) June 12: Death, Inheritance & Property Transmission:

           Old Families, New Families and Blended Families

 

    Reading: (textbook)

     Beatrice Craig, "Families, Inheritance and Property  Transmission in Rural Central Canada in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries," Family Matters. pp. 159-76.

 

     Peter Gossage, "Tangled Webs: Remarriage and Family Conflict19th Century Quebec," Family Matters. pp. 355-76.

 

SECTION 3:

FAMILY FUNCTIONS: CHILDREARING, CAREGIVING AND SUPPORT

 

9) June 14: Pregnancy, Childbirth and Changing Definitions of  Motherhood and Child-rearing

 

    Readings: (see Reprotext & textbook)

    Maxime Margolis, "Putting Mothers on a Pedestal," in Family Patterns, Gender Relations, ed

    Bonnie Fox (Toronto; Oxford University Press, 1993):120-34.

 

    Mona Gleason, "Growing Up to be Normal: Psychology Constructs Proper Gender Roles in Post-World War II Canada,1945-60," Family Matters. pp. 39-56.

 

10) June 19: Fatherhood: From Patriarchs to Role Models

 

    Readings: (textbook)

     Cynthia Comacchio, "Bringing Up Father: Defining a Modern Canadian Fatherhood, 1900-1940," Family Matters. pp. 289-308.

 

    Robert Rutherdale,"Fatherhood and Masculine Domesticity During the Baby Boom: Consumption and Leisure in Advertising and Life Stories," Family Matters pp. 309-34.

 

11) June 21: Education: Class, Gender and Morality

 

      Note: Book review/critique due today

 

      Readings: (reprotext)

        Katherine McKenna, A Life of Propriety: Anne Murray Powell and Her Family, 1755-1849 (Montreal; McGill-Queen's Press, 1994). see Chapter 7: "Education". pp. 155-71.

 

       ChristabelleSethna, "Wait Till Your Father Gets Home: Absent Fathers, Working Mothers and Delinquent Daughters in Ontario during World War II, Family Matters. pp. 19-38.

 

 

12) June 26: Children and the Family:

                    Child Labour, Child Protection and the Moral Control of Adolescents

 

       Readings: (textbook)

       Sara Posen, "Examining Policy from the Bottom Up: The Relationship Between Parents,

       Children and Managers at the  Toronto Boys' Home, 1859-1920," Family Matters. ppp. 3-18. Dominique Marshall, "Reconstruction Politics, The Canadian Welfare State and the Formation of Children's Rights, 1940-1950," Family Matters. pp. 135-57.

 

       Tamera Myers, "Qui t'a debauchee?: Family Adolescent Sexuality and the Juvenile Delinquent's Court in Early Twentieth Century Montreal," Family Matters pp. 377-94.

 

         

July 3rd: Canada Day (no class)

 

      

14) July 5: Families, Women and Care-Giving

 

     Readings: (see reprotext & textbook)

       Geoff Reaume, "Mental Hospital Patients and Family Relations in Southern Ontario, 1880-1931," Family Matters. pp. 271-88.

 

     Carol Baines, Patricia Evans and Sheila Nyesmith, "Caring: Its Impact on the Lives of Women," in Women's Caring: Feminist Perspectives on Social Welfare, eds., C. Baines, P. Evans, and S. Neysmith (Toronto, 1991):272-299.      

 

 

SECTION 4:

FAMILY DIS-FUNCTIONS: ABUSE, NEGLECT AND FAMILY BREAKDOWN

 

15) July 10: Neglect, Abuse and the Rights of Women

 

    Reading: (see Reprotext)

    Lori Chambers, Married Women and Property Law in Victorian Ontario (Toronto, 1997) see chapter 2:"A Life that is Simply Intolerable: Alimony and the Protection of  Wives." pp. 28-  52.

 

16) July 12: Family Dissolution: Separation, Divorce and the State

 

    Reading: (textbook)

    Christina Burr, "Letters to Mike: Personal Narrative and Divorce Reform in Canada in the

    1960's," Family Matters.  Pp. 395-415.

 

SECTION 5:

BREAKING THE RULES: BEYOND THE TRADITIONAL

 

17) July 17: Women, Work and Family: Gender and Opportunity

 

    Readings: (see reprotext)

    Carolyn Strange, Toronto’s Girl Problem: The Perils and Pleasures of the City, 1880-1930 (Toronto, UTP, 1995). See chapter 5: ‘Good Times and Bad Girls.’ pp. 116-143.

 

    Joan Sangster, ‘Doing Two Jobs: The Wage-Earning Mother, 1945-70,’ in A Diversity of

    Women: Ontario, 1945-80, ed., Joy Parr (Toronto; UTP, 1995): 98-134.

 

18) July 19: Regulating Reproduction: Birth Control, Abortion and Family Planning

 

    Readings: (see reprotext)

    Marianna Valverde, "When the Mother of the Race is Free: Race, Reproduction and Sexuality in First-Wave Feminism," in Gender Conflicts, eds., Franca Iacovetta and Marianna Valverde (Toronto; UTP, 1993):3-26.

 

    Christabelle Sethna, ‘A Bitter Pill to Swallow: Second Wave Feminist Critiques of Oral

     Contraception,’ in Canada: Confederation to the Present, eds., Bob Hesketh and Chris Hackett

    (Edmonton, AB.; Chinook Multimedia Inc., forthcoming)

  

19) July 24: Unmarried Parents

 

    Reading: (see textbook)

    Lori Chambers, "You Have No Rights, Only Obligations": Putative Fathers and the Children of Unmarried Parents Act," Family Matters. pp. 115-34.

 

20) July 26: Gay and Lesbian Lives and the Enforcement of Heterosexuality

 

    Reading: (see textbook)

    Peter Rusk, "Same-Sex Spousal Benefits and the Evolving Conception of Family,’ Family

    Matters. pp. 227-69.        

 

     Karen Duder, ‘That Repulsive Abnormal Creature I Heard About in that Book: Lesbians and Families in Ontario, 1920-65,’ in Ontario After Confederation: A Reader, eds., Ed Montigny

     and Lori Chambers (Toronto; UTP, 2000):TBA

 

21) July 31:  Native Families, Immigrant Families and the State: Creating "Canadian

                    Families".

 

     research papers due today

 

     Reading: (see textbook & repotext)

     Jean Barman, "Families vs. Schools: Children of Aboriginal Descent in British Columbia

     Classrooms of the Late-Nineteenth Century, Family Matters. pp. 73-90.

  

     Film: Duncan Campbell Scott: The Poet and the Indians

 

SECTION 6:

GENERATIONS: THE ELDERLY AND THE FAMILY

 

22) Aug 2: The Role of the Elderly Within the Family

 

    Readings: (textbook)

    Edgar-Andre Montigny, "The Economic Role of the Elderly Within the Family: Evidence from Turn-of-the-Century Ontario," Family Matters. pp. 459-74.

 

     James Snell,"The Family and the Working-Class Elderly in the First Half of the Twentieth

     Century," Family Matters. pp.  499-510. 

     

 

August 7th : Civic Holiday (No Class)

 

 

23) Aug 9: The State, Institutions, and the Family

 

    Readings: (textbook)

     Stormi Stewart, "The Elderly Poor in Rural Ontario: The Inmates of the Wellington County House of Industry, 1877-1907," Family Matters. pp. 417-36.

 

     James Struthers, "A Nice Homelike Atmosphere: State Alternatives to Family Care for the Aged in Post-World War II Ontario," Family Matters. pp. 335-53.

 

     Note: There will be a wrap up session during which papers will be returned and the exam study questions distributed.(This will be the only opportunity to pick up the study questions)(also all  outstanding course work should be submitted by this class)

 

 

24) August 14-18: FINAL EXAM PERIOD

 

BOOK REVIEW:

 

Please select one of the following books for your book review

assignment. If you wish to review a book not found on this list, you must first speak to the professor. These books have been placed on 5 day short term loan at the Gernstien Library. You may also be able to find them in the regular library collections or the bookstore.

 

   Emily Abel, Who Cares for the Elderly?: Public Policy and the Experiences of Adult Daughters (Philadelphia; Temple University Press, 1991).

 

   Katherine Arnup, Education for Motherhood: Advice for Mothers in Twentieth-Century Canada (Toronto; UTP, 1994).

 

    Denyse Baillargeon, Making Do: Women, Family and Home in Montreal During the Great Depression (Waterloo; Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1999)

 

   Bettina Bradbury, Working Families: Age, Gender and Daily Survival in Industrializing Montreal (Toronto; M&S, 1993).

 

   Lori Chambers, Married Women and Property Law in Victorian Ontario (Toronto; Osgoode Society, 1997).

 

   Cynthia Comacchio, Nations are Built of Babies: Saving Ontario's Mothers and Children (Montreal; MQP, 1993).

 

   Jane Errington, Wives & Mothers, School Mistresses & Scullery Maids: Working Women in Upper Canada (MQP, 1995).

 

   Betty Farrell, Elite Families: Class and Power in Nineteenth-Century Boston (Albany; State University of New York Press, 1993).

 

   Mona Gleason, Normalizing the Ideal: Psychology, Schooling and The Family in Postwar Canada (Toronto; UTP, 1999)

 

   Linda Gordon, Heroes in Their Own Lives: The Politics and History of Family Violence (New York; Penguin Books, 1988)

 

   Philip Greven, Four Generations: Population, Land and Family in Colonial Andover, Massachusetts (Ithaca; Cornell University Press, 1970).

 

   Robert Griswold, Fatherhood in America: A History (New York; Basic Books, 1993)

 

   Carole Haber and Brian Gratton, Old Age and the Search for Security: An American Social History (Bloomington; Indianna University Press, 1994).

 

   Lesley Hall, Hidden Anxieties: Male Sexuality, 1900-1950 (Cambridge; Polity Press, 1991)

 

   S.J. Kleinberg, The Shadow of the Mills: Working Class Families in Pittsburgh, 1870-1907

(Pittsburgh; University of Pittsburgh Press, 1989).

 

   Andree Levesque, Making and Breaking the Rules: Women in Quebec, 1919-1939 (Toronto; M&S, 1989).

 

 

      Kriste Lindenmeyer, A Right to Childhood: The U.S. Children’s Bureau and Child Welfare, 1912-46 (Chicago; University of Illinois Press, 1997).

 

   Margaret Little, No Car, No Radio, No Liquor Permit: The Moral Regulation of Single Mothers in Ontario, 1920-97 (Toronto; Oxford University Press, 1998)

 

   Katherine McKenna, A Life of Propriety: Anne Murray Powell and Her Family, 1755-1849 (Montreal; MQP, 1994).

 

   Edgar-Andre Montigny, Foisted Upon the Government?: State Responsibilities, Family Obligations and the Care of the Dependent Aged in Late-Nineteenth-Century Ontario (Montreal; MQP, 1997).

 

   Suzanne Morton, Ideal Surroundings: Domestic Life in a Working Class Suburb in the 1920's (Toronto; UTP, 1995).

 

   Nancy G. Osterud, Bonds of Community: The Lives of Farm Woman in Nineteenth-Century New York (Ithaca; Cornell University Press,1991)

 

   Doug Owram, Born at the Right Time: A History of the Baby Boom Generation (Toronto, UTP, 1996).

 

   Mary Ryan, The Cradle of the Middle Class: The Family in Oneida County, New York, 1790-1865 (New York, 1981)

 

   James Snell, In the Shadow of the Law: Divorce in Canada, 1900-1939 (Toronto; UTP, 1991).

 

   Beverly Stadum, Poor Women and Their Families: Hard Working Charity Cases, 1900-1930 (New York, NYP, 1992).

 

    Neil Sutherland, Growing Up: Childhood in English Canada from the Great War to the Age of Television (Toronto; UTP, 1997)

 

   Jane Ursel, Private Lives, Public Policy: 100 Years of State Intervention in the Family (Toronto; Women's Press, 1992).

 

    Sylvia Van Kirk, Many Tender Ties: Women in Fur Trade Society, 1670-1870 (Winnipeg; Watson & Dwyer, 1980).

 

    Peter Ward, Love, Courtship and Marriage in Nineteenth-Century English Canada (Montreal; MQP, 1990).