Canadian cultural memory of the First World War is conspicuously asexual considering Canadians had among the highest rates for venereal disease in the British Expeditionary Force. There is an inherited reticence to discuss soldiers’ sex lives. There is no such silence in Canadian war novels. In these novels, sex workers facilitate the forging of a distinctly domestic space. Indicative of the persistent schism between the front and the home-front, however, this proxy space inevitably becomes untenable and the relationship between soldier and sex worker comes to stand in for the fraught relationship between soldier and home-front and vice versa.La mémoire culturelle canadienne de la Première Guerre mondiale est plutôt asexuée alors qu’il y av...
The years following the First World War witnessed a dramatic change in the Canadian novel, from nine...
Lesbian partners of servicewomen remain invisible despite policy changes regarding homosexuals in th...
Women have advanced in Canada since the Royal Commission on the Status of Women in 1970. This Commis...
The wastage of Canadian manpower due to venereal disease (VD) during World War II was an ongoing pro...
In 1917, the British War Office released a film directed by Joseph Best titled Whatsoever a Man Sowe...
During the First World War, the Canadian Espeditionary Force (cef) was infamous for having the highe...
“My chum got killed saturday morning he and I have be [sic] going together sleeping together ever si...
The First World War proved to be a powerful stimulus for the temperance movement in Canada. Temperan...
When Canadian soldiers went to war in 1914, they could not have anticipated the horrors that awaited...
In the late 1920s and early 1930s, ex-soldiers in Canada took a major part in the public debate ove...
This essay explores the way in which rape was represented in Upper Canada circa 1812. It draws upon ...
The two decades immediately preceding World War I witnessed a growing concern regarding social and s...
Much evidence in Canada’s wartime print media points to significant debate over the hopes and possib...
British military records provide an unexpected source of information on the lives of ordinary women ...
The war novel is a significant genre in twentieth-century Canadian fiction. Central to that genre ha...
The years following the First World War witnessed a dramatic change in the Canadian novel, from nine...
Lesbian partners of servicewomen remain invisible despite policy changes regarding homosexuals in th...
Women have advanced in Canada since the Royal Commission on the Status of Women in 1970. This Commis...
The wastage of Canadian manpower due to venereal disease (VD) during World War II was an ongoing pro...
In 1917, the British War Office released a film directed by Joseph Best titled Whatsoever a Man Sowe...
During the First World War, the Canadian Espeditionary Force (cef) was infamous for having the highe...
“My chum got killed saturday morning he and I have be [sic] going together sleeping together ever si...
The First World War proved to be a powerful stimulus for the temperance movement in Canada. Temperan...
When Canadian soldiers went to war in 1914, they could not have anticipated the horrors that awaited...
In the late 1920s and early 1930s, ex-soldiers in Canada took a major part in the public debate ove...
This essay explores the way in which rape was represented in Upper Canada circa 1812. It draws upon ...
The two decades immediately preceding World War I witnessed a growing concern regarding social and s...
Much evidence in Canada’s wartime print media points to significant debate over the hopes and possib...
British military records provide an unexpected source of information on the lives of ordinary women ...
The war novel is a significant genre in twentieth-century Canadian fiction. Central to that genre ha...
The years following the First World War witnessed a dramatic change in the Canadian novel, from nine...
Lesbian partners of servicewomen remain invisible despite policy changes regarding homosexuals in th...
Women have advanced in Canada since the Royal Commission on the Status of Women in 1970. This Commis...