HIST 434 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Working Class Culture, Davidoff, Settler Colonialism
14 Jun 2017
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Intimate relations: family governance and paternalism in british north america ! Family governance, paternalism and patriarchy in british north america in statecraft, nation building and community relations and identity! Dupanloup 1861 the authority of the father broad structural society -patriarchial authority is being paramount, taught in law, schools, churches -restructuring society to be more loyal ! Marie cyr 1878 -suing her husband for not providing -challenges rhetoric and ideology of patriarchy -in reality families depended on domestic labour and wage labour would change dramatically beyond the father as the sole provider ! Lawrence ahenakew, 1999 family in the frontier, and family as connecting social circles -ties and family changing throughout the country -family as a state project, but also a uid state of connecting ! Family as a primary means of governing society in 1860s: particular in new world, given the weak and distant state, the weakened clerical authority -lack of traditional authority!
