Undergraduate Bodies: Women and Academic Citizenship in English Canada, 1875–1914.
In the nineteenth century, the cap and gown, like soldiers' uniforms or the robes of lawyers, was perceived to be unfitting on a woman's body. The right to wear the cap and gown was granted to young men when they matriculated as undergraduates, signifying that they were members of their university a...
| Publicado en: | Canadian Historical Review Vol. 105; no. 3; pp. 367 - 396 |
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=hlh&AN=180113547&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: hlh uiTerm: 180113547 longDbName: Humanities International Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 00083755 CHR jtl: Canadian Historical Review issn: 00083755 maglogo: Y pubinfo: dt: Sep2024 vid: 105 iid: 3 pid: 678 pub: University of Toronto Press artinfo: ui: 180113547 10.3138/chr-2023-0018 ppf: 367 ppct: 29 formats: fmt: – @attributes: type: T – @attributes: type: P size: 3.5MB tig: atl: Undergraduate Bodies: Women and Academic Citizenship in English Canada, 1875–1914. aug: au: MacDonald, Sara Z. affil: Laurentian University, Sudbury, Ontario, Canada su: Women college students Canadian history, 1867- Undergraduates Educational equalization Visual culture Academic costume Photography of women sug: subj: Women college students Canadian history, 1867- Undergraduates Educational equalization Visual culture Academic costume Photography of women keyword: academic citizenship academic dress body representation English Canada photography race universities visual culture Women Canada anglais citoyenneté universitaire culture visuelle femmes photographie représentation corporelle robe universitaire universités ab: In the nineteenth century, the cap and gown, like soldiers' uniforms or the robes of lawyers, was perceived to be unfitting on a woman's body. The right to wear the cap and gown was granted to young men when they matriculated as undergraduates, signifying that they were members of their university and holders of academic citizenship. The withholding of these rights cast women as inferior, and the denial of academic citizenship was premised on a discourse that normalized women's inequality. Photographs offer opportunities not only to view actual bodies situated in a specific historical time and place, but also to explore the visual representation of cultural discourses and to search for moments of disruption and dissent. By producing and circulating images of their own bodies in academic dress, early university women in English Canada pushed back against the normative gendered discourses that excluded them from academic citizenship. Yet the discursive undergraduate body they constructed based their claims to university membership on their collective identity as white, Anglo-Canadian women. In this way, university women made adroit use of photography to portray white women in academic dress as images of youthful power and strength who were capable of assuming civic responsibility and poised to work toward the progress of the new dominion. Au dix-neuvième siècle, la toge et le mortier, comme l'uniforme des militaires ou la toge des avocats, étaient considérés comme inappropriés sur le corps des femmes. Le droit de porter la toge et le mortier était accordé aux jeunes hommes inscrit dans un programme de baccalauréat pour signifier qu'ils étaient membres de leur institution et détenteurs de la citoyenneté universitaire. Le refus de ces droits faisaient valoir l'infériorité des femmes, et le déni de la citoyenneté universitaire reposait sur un discours qui normalisait l'inégalité chez les femmes. Les photos permettent non seulement de voir les corps situés à un moment et dans un lieu historique donnés, mais également d'explorer la représentation visuelle des discours culturels et de chercher des moments de perturbation et de dissidence. Par la production et la diffusion d'images de leur propre corps dans des robes universitaires, les premières femmes universitaires du Canada anglais ont repoussé les discours genrés normatifs qui les excluaient de la citoyenneté universitaire. Pourtant, le corps étudiant discursif qu'elles se sont construit faisait reposer leurs revendications du statut de membres de leur université sur leur identité collective de femmes blanches anglo-canadiennes. Ainsi, les femmes universitaires ont utilisé de façon adroite de la photographie pour dépeindre les femmes blanches en habits universitaires comme pleines de vigueur et de force juvéniles, en mesure d'assumer leur responsabilité civique et d'œuvrer à l'élaboration du nouveau dominion. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: Y custom: Copyright of Canadian Historical Review is the property of University of Toronto Press and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites without the copyright holder's express written permission. Additionally, content may not be used with any artificial intelligence tools or machine learning technologies. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. item: Canadian Historical Review holder: University of Toronto Press dt: @attributes: year: 2024 holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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