Errington

While her website needs some work - a link to read more about State Senator Sue Errington's endorsement keeps me in a clicky loop - the fact that Errington has endorsed her is a good sign for feminists.

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While her website needs some work - a link to read more about State Senator Sue Errington's endorsement keeps me in a clicky loop - the fact that Errington has endorsed her is a good sign for feminists.

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The press Down Under likes to label the ex-prime minister "dull" and "dour," but as they chronicle his rise from a childhood in the Sydney suburbs to head of government in Canberra, Messrs. van Onselen and Errington show that John Howard is anything but.

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Errington went on to join the faculty at Iowa State University, where he continued to collaborate with Leopold on research on quail population ecology.

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Similarly, the wives of small farmers, recent immigrants, squatters, and tenant farmers in Upper Canada often did seasonal field labor and domestic work for others; see Errington, Wives and Mothers, 17, 83, and 126.

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Note 60: See, for example: Berkin, First Generations, 28; and Errington, Wives and Mothers, Chapter 2. back

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By contrast, Errington notes that Upper Canadian farming families were distinctly hierarchical and patriarchal, the image of the "good wife" presented as "caring, quiet, [and] submissive" — although Errington's reliance on middle-class sources may have skewed her findings somewhat.

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Note 58: For discussions of the idealization of motherhood, with all its cultural aspects — e.g., the definitions and values, the extra social and emotional requirements attached to the construct — as well as the gap between middle-class ideals and the realty of plebeian/working-class mothers 'lives, see: Ross, Love and Toil; Rendall, Women in an Industrializing Society; Errington, Wives and Mothers; and Ryan, Womanhood in America. back

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Errington also observes that gentry women in Upper Canada were "public representatives of their class" and were expected to take an active role in social functions and philanthropic work as a means of reinforcing their husbands 'status and influence.

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See Elizabeth Jane Errington, Wives and Mothers, Schoolmistresses and Scullery Maids: Working Women in Upper Canada, 1790-1840, (Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1995), chaps. 6 and 7; quotation from 132.

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