Making Men, Making History: Canadian Masculinities across Time and Place

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Making Men, Making History

Canadian Masculinities across Time and Place

Edited by: Peter Gossage and Robert Rutherdale

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2018

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The first published collection devoted entirely to historical studies of Canadian masculinity, Making Men, Making History pushes the boundaries of what it has meant to be a man in Canada.

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Peter Gossage is a professor of Quebec and Canadian history at Concordia University, focusing on family, gender, and society in Quebec. His published works include Families in Transition: Industry and Population in Nineteenth-Century Saint-Hyacinthe and, with J.I. Little, An Illustrated History of Quebec: Tradition and Modernity. Robert Rutherdale is an associate professor of Canadian history at Algoma University. He is the author of Hometown Horizons: Local Responses to Canada’s Great War and co-editor, with Magda Fahrni, of Creating Postwar Canada: Community, Diversity, and Dissent, 1945–75.

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Front Matter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Figures Publicly Available Download PDF	x
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	xiii
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	3
Expertise and Authority
Medical Men, Masculine Respectability, and the Contest for Power in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Quebec Lisa Chilton Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	29
Accident Prevention in Early-Twentieth-Century Quebec and the Construction of Masculine Technical Expertise Magda Fahrni Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	46
“The Spiritual Aspect”: Gordon A. Friesen and the Mechanization of the Modern Hospital David Theodore Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	64
“I am still the Supt. in this plant”: Negotiating Middle-Class Masculinity in Edmonton Packinghouses in an Era of Union Strength, 1947–66 Cynthia Loch-Drake Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	85
Masculine Spaces
The Place of Manliness: Architecture, Domesticity, and Men’s Clubs Annmarie Adams Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	109
“As Christ the Carpenter”: Work-Camp Missions and the Construction of Christian Manhood in Late-Nineteenth-and Early-Twentieth-Century Canada Norman Knowles Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	132
An Open Window on Other Masculinities: Gay Bars and Visibility in Montreal Olivier Vallerand Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	150
Performing Masculinities
Scales of Manliness: Masculinity and Disability in the Displays of Little People as Freaks in Ontario, 1900s–50s Jane Nicholas Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	175
Claiming “Our Game”: Skwxwú7mesh Lacrosse and the Performance of Indigenous Nationhood in the Early Twentieth Century Allan Downey Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	195
Sea Shepherds, Eco-warriors, and Impresarios: Performing Eco-masculinity in the Canadian Seal Hunt of the Late Twentieth Century Willeen G. Keough Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	218
The New Quebec Man: Activism and Collective Improvisation at Petit Québec Libre, 1970–73 Eric Fillion Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	236
Boys to Men
Men’s Business: Masculine Adolescence and Social Projection in Selected Coming-of-Age Novels from Interwar Quebec Louise Bienvenue and Christine Hudon Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	257
Boys and Boyhood: Exploring the Lives of Boys in Windsor, Ontario, during the Postwar Era, 1945–65 Christopher J. Greig Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	275
Heroes on Campus: Student Veterans and Discourses of Masculinity in Post–Second World War Canada Patricia Jasen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	293
Constructing Canadianness: Terry Fox and the Masculine Ideal in Canada Julie Perrone Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	312
Men in Motion
Tough Bodies, Fast Paddles, Well-Dressed Wives: Measuring Manhood among French Canadian and Métis Voyageurs in the North American Fur Trade Carolyn Podruchny Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	333
“The Moral Grandeur of Fleeing to Canada”: Masculinity and the Gender Politics of American Draft Dodgers during the Vietnam War Lara Campbell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	347
Rebellion on the Road: Masculinity and Outlaw Motorcycle Clubs in Postwar Ontario Graeme Melcher Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	364
Faces of Fatherhood
Celebrating the Family Man: From Father’s Day to La Fête des Pères, 1910–60 Peter Gossage Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	385
“I’m a lousy father”: Alcoholic Fathers in Postwar Canada and the Myths of Masculine Crises Robert Rutherdale Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	409
Afterword Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	427
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	434
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	439

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eBook published on:

May 1, 2018

eBook ISBN:

9780774835657

Pages and Images/Illustrations in book

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472

Illustrations:

52

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52 illus., 1 chart

https://doi.org/10.59962/9780774835657

eBook ISBN: 9780774835657

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Making Men, Making History

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