https://theusajournals.com/index.php/ijhps <p><strong>International Journal Of History And Political Sciences (2771-2222)</strong></p> <p><strong>Open Access International Journal</strong></p> <p><strong>Last Submission:- 25th of Every Month</strong></p> <p><strong>Frequency: 12 Issues per Year (Monthly)</strong></p> <p> </p> Oscar Publishing Services en-US International Journal Of History And Political Sciences 2771-2222 https://theusajournals.com/index.php/ijhps/article/view/11579 <p>Historical scholarship is not a neutral record of past events but a process through which social experiences are selected, classified, interpreted, and represented. Gender provides a particularly significant analytical category for examining how historical narratives have privileged certain forms of social experience while marginalizing others. This research-and-review article examines the possibilities of reframing historiographical interpretations through a gender-sensitive analytical approach, using the historical development of Toronto’s suburbs, property relations, housing, immigration, social reform, and urban transformation as its principal field of analysis. The study employs a qualitative historiographical methodology based exclusively on the supplied historical and urban studies literature. The analytical framework connects four dimensions—spatial organization, property and housing, social regulation, and historical representation—to investigate how apparently gender-neutral historical processes can produce differentiated experiences. The literature demonstrates that suburban development was shaped by class, immigration, property ownership, institutional regulation, and cultural expectations, while the gendered implications of these processes require more explicit historiographical attention. Harris’s analysis of working-class immigrant suburbs particularly demonstrates how residential environments can be interpreted as products of intersecting social and economic forces rather than merely physical expansion (Harris, 1991). The findings suggest that gender-sensitive historiography can broaden conventional urban history by recovering overlooked experiences, interrogating assumptions of neutrality, and connecting domestic, spatial, economic, and institutional histories. The article concludes that gender should operate not simply as an additional subject of historical inquiry but as an interpretive framework capable of reshaping the questions, categories, and causal relationships through which historical change is understood.</p> Tran Thu Ha Copyright (c) 2026 Tran Thu Ha https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 2026-09-01 2026-09-01 6 09 1 8