Making men, making history : Canadian masculinities across time and place

Gossage, Peter, 1956- (Added Author). Rutherdale, Robert Allen, 1956- (Added Author).

Summary: What has it meant to be a man in Canada? Alexander Ross, fur trader and chronicler; Percy Nobbs, Montreal architect, fisherman, and fencer; Andy Paull, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh residential school survivor, athlete, and lacrosse promoter; Yves Charbonneau, radical nationalist, jazz musician, and commune member; “James,” a young man growing up black and gay in postwar Windsor. Who were these men, and how did they identify as masculine? --

Record details

ISBN: 9780774835633 (hardcover)
Physical Description: print
xv, 454 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Publisher: Vancouver, BC : UBC Press, 2018.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Part 1 : expertise and authority. Medical men, masculine respectability, and the contest for power in mid-nineteenth-century Quebec -- Accident prevention in early-twentieth-century Quebec and the construction of masculine technical expertise -- "The spiritual aspect" : Gordon A. Friesen and the mechanization of the modern hospital -- "I am still the supt. in this plant" : negotiating middle-class masculinity in Edmonton packinghouses in an era of union strength, 1947-66 -- Part 2 : masculine spaces. The place of manliness : architecture, domesticity, and the men's clubs -- "As Christ the carpenter" : work-camp missions and the construction of Christian manhood in late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century Canada -- An open window on other masculinities : gay bars and visibility in Montreal -- Part 3 : performing masculinities. Scales of manliness : masculinity and disability in the displays of little people as freaks in Ontario, 1900s-50s -- Claiming "our game" : Skwxwu7mesh lacrosse and the performance of indigenous nationhood in the early twentieth century -- Sea shepherds, eco-warriors, and impressarios : performing eco-masculinity in the Canadian seal hunt of the late twentieth century -- The new Quebec man : activism and collective improvisation at Petit Québec Libre -- Part 4 : boys to men. Men's business : masculine adolescence and social projection in selected coming-of-age novels from interwar Quebec -- Boys and boyhood : exploring the lives of boys in Windsor, Ontario, during the postwar era, 1945-1965 -- Heroes on campus : student veterans and discourses of masculinity in post-Second World War Canada -- Constructing Canadianness : Terry Fox and the masculine ideal in Canada -- Part 5 : men in motion. Tough bodies, fast paddles, well-dressed wives : measuring manhood among French Canadian and Métis voyageurs in the North American fur trade -- "The moral grandeur of fleeing to Canada" : masculinity and the gender politics of American draft dodgers during the Vietnam War -- Rebellion on the road : masculinity and outlaw motorcycle clubs in postwar Ontario -- Part 6 : faces of fatherhood. Celebrating the family man : from Father's Day to La Fete des Peres, 1910-60 -- "I'm a lousy father" : alcoholic fathers in postwar Canada and the myths of masculine crises.