This book charts the evolution of gender and sexuality, as they have been represented and performed in the literatures of Canada for more than three centuries.

Linda M. Morra is currently Professor of English at Bishop's University, situated on unceded Abenaki territory, the former Jack and Nancy Farley Visiting Scholar at Simon Fraser University (2021-2022), and the former Craig Dobbin Chair of Canadian Studies at University College Dublin (2016-2017). She completed her doctorate in Canadian Literature and Canadian Studies at the University of Ottawa. In addition to editing and writing nine other books, she also authored Moving Archives, which won the Gabrielle Roy Prize in English (2020), and co-edited (with Dr. Sarah Henzi) On the Other Side(s) of 150, which won the Canadian Studies Network Prize (2021).

Chapter One:

Archaeologies of Gender and Sexuality in Literature in Canada
References and Further Reading

Chapter Two:

Frances Brooke and the English Heroines of the Novel of Sensibility
References and Further Reading

Chapter Three:
Performances of Settler Femininity: Susanna Moodie and Catherine Parr Traill

References and Further Reading

Chapter Four:
Ralph Connor and the Narrative of Muscular ChristianityReferences and Further Reading

Chapter Five:
Georgina Sime and Pauline Johnson, and the Rise of the New Woman

References and Further Reading

Chapter Six:
Jane Rule and the Development of Lesbian Literature in Canada
References and Further Reading

Chapter Seven:
Alice Munro, Margaret Atwood, and the (Post)Modern Woman
References and Further Reading

Chapter Eight:

Recuperating Indigenous and Racialized Masculinities

References and Further Reading

Chapter Nine:

"Moving Over": Racialized Contemporary Womanhood

References and Further Reading

Chapter Ten:
Transgender, Two Spirit, and Gender-Nonconforming Literatures in Canada

References and Further Reading