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Gender and Sexuality

Angus, Margaret Sharp. “Dobbs, Harriet (Cartwright).” Dictionary of Canadian Biography, Volume 11. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1982: 265-266.

Arnup, Katherine. “Raising the Dionne Quintuplets: Lessons for Modern Mothers.” Journal of Canadian Studies 29:4 (Winter 1994/95): 65-85. 

Backhouse, Constance. ‘The White Women’s Labour Laws: Anti-Chinese Racism in Early Twentieth Century Canada’, Law and History Review 14 (1996): 315-68.  

Baehre, Rainer. “Victorian Psychiatry and Canadian Motherhood.” Canadian Women’s Studies 2 (1980): 44-46.  

Beaveridge, Janice. “Getting a Job Done and Doing It Well: Dr. Blossom Wigdor, Psychologist and Gerontologist.” In Marianne Gosztonyi Ainley (ed.). Despite the Odds: Essays on Canadian Women and Science. Montreal: Vehicule Press, 1990: 252-262. 

Bhimji, Shabir and Rose Sheinin. “Dr. Edna May Guest: She Promoted Women’s Issues Before It Was Fashionable.” Canadian Medical Association Journal 141:10 (November 15, 1989): 1093-1094.  

Bradbury, Bettina. “Elderly Inmates and Caregiving Sisters: Catholic Institutions for the Elderly in Nineteenth Century Montreal.” In Franca Iacovetta and Wendy Mitchinson (eds.). On the Case: Explorations in Social History. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1998: 129-155. 

Burstow, Bonnie. “A History of Psychiatric Homophobia.” Phoenix Rising: The Voice of the Psychiatrized 8:3/4 (July, 1990): S38-S39. 

Cassel, Jay. “Private Acts and Public Actions: The Canadian Response to the Problem of Sexually Transmitted Disease in the Twentieth Century.” Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada 4 (1989): 305-328.  

Cellard, André. «Folie, norme et rôles sexuels au Québec dans la seconde moitié du XIXe siècle», Revue d’histoire de l’Amérique française 47:2 (1993): 245-255.  

Chenier, Elise. “The Criminal Sexual Psychopath in Canada: Sex, Psychiatry and the Law at Mid-Century.” Canadian Bulletin of Medical History 20 (2003): 1. 

Chunn, Dorothy E. and Robert Menzies. “Out of Mind, Out of Law: The Regulation of ‘Criminally Insane’ Women Inside British Columbia’s Public Mental Hospitals, 1888- 1973.” Canadian Journal of Women and the Law 10 (2), 1998: 306-337. 

Davies, Megan J. “The Women Beyond the Gates: Female Mental Health Patients in British Columbia, 1910-1935.” In Canadian Research Institute for the Advancement of Women: Women and Well-Being. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1990: 53-64.

Davies, Megan J. “Snapshots: Three Women and Psychiatry, 1920-1935.” Canadian Woman Studies 8 (1987): 47-48. 

de la Cour, Lykke. “‘She thinks this is the queen’s castle’: Women Patients’ Perceptions of an Ontario Psychiatric Hospital.” Health and Place 3:2 (1997): 131-141. 

de la Cour, Lykke. “The ‘Other’ Side of Psychology: Women Psychologists in Toronto from 1920 to 1945.” Canadian Woman Studies 8:4 (Winter, 1987): 44-46.  

de la Cour, Lykke. “Workers’ Health and Safety Groups, Women’s Health Groups, and the Addiction Research Foundation.” In Enhancing Communication and Community: A Proactive Healthcare Archives Assistance. Toronto: Hannah Institute for the History of Medicine, 1994: 11-15. 

 “Female Nurses in Male Wards of Mental Hospitals.” Bulletin of the Ontario Hospitals for the Insane 9:3 (April, 1916): 81-86. 

Finkler, Lilith. “Notes for Feminist Theorists on the Lives of Psychiatrized Women.” Canadian Woman Studies 13:4 (Summer, 1993): 72-74.

Firsten, Temi. “Violence in the Lives of Women on Psych Wards.” Canadian Woman Studies 11:4 (Summer, 1991): 45-48. 

Gleason, Mona. “Growing Up to be ‘Normal’: Psychology Constructs Proper Gender Roles in Post-World War II Canada, 1945-1960.” In Lori Chambers and Edgar-André Montigny (eds.), Family Matters: Papers in Post-Confederation Canadian Family History. Toronto: Canadian Scholars’ Press, 1998.

Gleason, Mona. “Psychology and the construction of the ‘normal’ family in postwar Canada, 1945-60.” The Canadian Historical Review 78:3 (1997): 442-477. 

Goldberg, Benjamin. “Developmental Disabilities.” In Quentin Rae-Grant (ed.). Images in Psychiatry: Canada. Washington, D.C.: American Psychiatric Press, 1996: 39-43. 

Harries, Joan. “Be A Good Girl.” In Bonnie Burstow and Don Weitz (eds.). Shrink Resistant: The Struggle Against Psychiatry in Canada. Vancouver: New Star Books, 1988: 39-40.

Iacovetta, Franca. “Making ‘New Canadians’: Social Workers, Women and the Reshaping of Immigrant Families.” In Gender Conflicts: New Essays in Women’s History. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1992. 

Johnston, Susan J. “Twice Slain: Female Sex-Trade Workers and Suicide in British Columbia, 1870-1920.” Journal of the Canadian Historical Association (1994): 147-166.

Joyce, Barbara. “I’m Not Crazy After All.” In Dorothy E. Smith and Sara J. David (eds.). Women Look at Psychiatry. Vancouver: Press, Gang Publishers, 1975: 183-194. 

Kelm, Mary-Ellen. “A Life Apart: The Experience of Women and the Asylum Practice of Charles Doherty at British Columbia’s Provincial Hospital for the Insane, 1905-1915.” Canadian Bulletin of Medical History 11 (1994): 335-355.

Kelm, Mary-Ellen. “Women, Families, and the Provincial Hospital for the Insane, British Columbia, 1905-1915.” Journal of Family History 19:2 (1994): 177-194. 

Kelm, Mary-Ellen. “‘The only place likely to do her any good’: The Admission of Women to British Columbia’s Provincial Hospital for the Insane.” BC Studies 96 (1992/3): 66-89.

Kendall, Kathleen A. “Criminal Lunatic Women in 19th century Canada.” Forum on Corrections Research 11:3 (1999). 

Kendall, Kathleen A. “Beyond Grace: Criminal Lunatic Women in Victorian Canada.” Canadian Women Studies 19 (1999): 110-115.

Kendall, Kathleen A. ‘Psy-ence fiction: Inventing the Mentally Disordered Female Prisoner.” In Kelly Hannah-Moffat and Margaret Shaw (eds.). An Ideal Prison? Critical Essays on Women’s Imprisonment in Canada. Halifax: Fernwood, 2000.  

Keshen, Jeffrey. “Wartime Jitters over Juveniles: Canada’s Delinquency Scare and Its Consequences.” In Jeffrey Keshen (ed.). Age of Contention: Readings in Canadian Social History, 1900-1945. Toronto: Harcourt Brace Canada, 1997. 

Maynard, Stephen. “On the Case of the Case: The Emergence of the Homosexual as a Case History in Early Twentieth Century Canada.” In Franca Iacovetta and Wendy Mitchinson (eds.). On the Case: Explorations in Social History. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1998: 65-87.

Maynard, Stephen. ‘‘‘Horrible Temptations’: Sex, Men, and Working-Class Male Youth in Urban Ontario, 1890-1935.” Canadian Historical Review 78:2 (June, 1997): 191-235. 

McConnachie, Kathleen J.A. “Methodology in the Study of Women’s History: A Case Study of Helen MacMurchy, M.D.” Ontario History 75:1 (March, 1983): 61-70.

McPherson, Cathy. “Violence Against Women with Disabilities.” Canadian Woman Studies 11:4 (Summer, 1991): 49-50. 

Menzies, Robert and Dorothy E. Chunn. “Charlotte’s Web: Historical Regulation of ‘Insane’ Women Murderers.” In Wendy Chan, Dorothy E. Chunn and Robert Menzies (eds.). Women, Madness and the Law: A Feminist Reader. London: Glasshouse Press, 2005. 

Menzies, Robert and Dorothy E. Chunn. “The Gender Politics of Criminal Insanity: ‘Order-in- Council’ Women in British Columbia, 1888-1950.” Histoire Sociale/Social History 31:62 (1999). 241-279. 

Miedema, Baukje and Janet M. Stoppard. “Asylum, Bedlam or Cure? Explaining Contradictions in Women’s Experiences of Psychiatric Hospitalization.” In Houston Stewart, Beth Percival, and Elizabeth R. Epperly (eds.). The More We Get Together: Women and Disability. Charlottetown, P.E.I.: Gynergy Books, 1992: 57-69. 

Miedema, Baukje and Janet M. Stoppard. “Asylum, Bedlam or Cure? Explaining Contradictions in Women’s Experiences of Psychiatric Hospitalization.” In Houston Stewart, Beth Percival, and Elizabeth R. Epperly (eds.). The More We Get Together: Women and Disability. Charlottetown, P.E.I.: Gynergy Books, 1992: 57-69. 

Mitchinson, Wendy. “Gender and Insanity as Characteristics of the Insane: A Nineteenth- Century Case.” Canadian Bulletin of Medical History 4 (1987): 99-117. 

Mitchinson, Wendy. “Hysteria and Insanity in Women: A Nineteenth-Century Canadian Perspective.” Journal of Canadian Studies 21:3 (1986): 87-105.

Mitchinson, Wendy. “Medical Perceptions of Female Sexuality: A Late Nineteenth Century Case.” Scientia Canadensis 9:1 (June, 1985): 67-81.

Mitchinson, Wendy. “A Medical Debate in Nineteenth-Century English Canada: Ovariotomies.” Histoire Sociale/Social History 17 (May, 1984): 133-147.

Mitchinson, Wendy. “Gynecological Operations on Insane Women, London Ontario, 1895- 1901.” Journal of Social History 15 (1982): 467-484.

Mitchinson, Wendy. “Gynecological Operations on the Insane.” Archivaria 10 (1982): 125-144.

Musgrove, W.M. “The Progress of Mental Hygiene in Manitoba.” Canadian Medical Association Journal 14 (1924): 377-378. LE

Myers, Tamara. “The Voluntary Delinquent: Parents, Daughters, and the Montreal Juvenile Delinquents’ Court in 1918.” Canadian Historical Review 80:2 (June, 1999): 242-268.

Myers, Tamara. “Qui t’a Debauchee? Family Adolescent Sexuality and the Juvenile Delinquent’s Court in Early Twentieth-Century Montreal.” In Lori Chambers and Edgar- André Montigny (eds.). Family Matters: Papers in Post-Confederation Canadian Family History. Toronto: Canadian Scholars’ Press, 1998: 376-394.  

Parker, Graham. “The Legal Regulation of Sexual Activity and the Protection of Females.” Osgoode Hall Law Journal 21 (1983): 187-224.

Penfold, Susan P. “Women in Academic Psychiatry in Canada.” Canadian Journal of Psychiatry 32:8 (November, 1987): 660-665.

Sangster, Joan. “Incarcerating ‘Bad Girls’: The Regulation of Sexuality through the Female Refuges Act in Ontario, 1920-1945.” Journal of the History of Sexuality 7:2 (October, 1996): 239-275.

Sangster, Joan. “The Legal and Medical Regulation of Nineteenth Century Women.” Journal of Canadian Studies 28:1 (1993): 199-207.

Sethna, Christabelle. “Wait Till Your Father Gets Home: Absent Fathers, Working Mothers and Delinquent Daughters in Ontario During World War II.” In Lori Chambers and Edgar- André Montigny (eds.). Family Matters: Papers in Post-Confederation Canadian Family History. Toronto: Canadian Scholars’ Press, 1998: 19-37.

Sethna, Christabelle. “Men, Sex, and Education: The Ontario Women’s Temperance Union and Children’s Sex Education, 1900-20.” Ontario History 88:3 (September, 1996): 185-206.

Smith, Dorothy E. “Women and Psychiatry.” In Dorothy E. Smith and Sara J. David (eds.). Women Look at Psychiatry. Vancouver: Press Gang Publishers, 1975: 1-19. 

Smith, Dorothy E. “The Statistics on Mental Illness: (What They Will Not Tell Us About Women and Why).” In Dorothy E. Smith and Sara J. David (eds.). Women Look at Psychiatry. Vancouver: Press Gang Publishers, 1975: 73-119.

Stephen, Jennifer. “The ‘Incorrigible,’ the ‘Bad,’ and the ‘Immoral’: Toronto’s ‘Factory Girls’ and the Work of the Toronto Psychiatric Clinic.” In Eds., Louis A. Knafla and Susan W.S. Binnie (eds.). Law, Society and the State: Essays in Modern Legal History. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1995: 405-439.

Stoppard, Janet M. “A Suitable Case for Treatment? Premenstrual Syndrome and the Medicalization of Women’s Bodies.” In Dawn H. Currie and Valerie Raoul (eds.). The Anatomy of Gender: Women’s Struggle for the Body. Ottawa: Carleton University Press, 1992: 119-129.

Warsh, C. Krasnick. “‘Oh, Lord, pour a cordial in her wounded heart’: The Drinking Woman in Victorian and Edwardian Canada.” In Cheryl Krasnick Warsh (ed.). Drink in Canada: Historical Essays. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1993: 70- 91.

Warsh, C. Krasnick. “The First Mrs. Rochester: Wrongful Confinement, Social Redundancy and Commitment to a Private Asylum, 1880-1910.” Canadian Historical Association Historical Papers 23:1 (1988): 145-167.

White-Mair, Kimberley. “Experts and Ordinary Men: Locating R. v. Lavallee, Battered Women Syndrome and the ‘New’ Psychiatric Expertise on Women within Canadian Legal History.” Canadian Journal of Women and the Law 12:2 (2000): 406-438. 

Wright, Mary J. “Women Ground-Breakers in Canadian Psychology: World War II and Its Aftermath.” Canadian Psychology 33:4 (October, 1992): 675-682.