Kinesiology 2263F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Beaver Club, Public Space, Lower Canada
18 Feb 2017
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In the late eighteenth/early nineteenth centuries, middle and upper class men increasingly organized activities or distinct forms of culture to create and sustain gender polarities that reinforced relations between men and women and positioned them into different social domains. Women dependent on a paternalist/patriarchal british regime. Private clubs to pursue social and economic interests: bourgeois men, merchants, and business owners interested in social and economic distinction sought the insulation of urban based private clubs to pursue economic and political interests. Established by wealthy fur trade merchants (stayed at the posts) imagined themselves as the real men. Isolated themselves by excluding lower orders of men and all women, yet often invited members of local aristocracy to patronize or visit. Based on class differences and gender; class values and a distinct gender order pervaded all behavourial legislation. However, average citizens, women in particular were subject to increased scrutiny if found drinking in taverns, as were the owners.
