Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Illustrations vii
4. Acknowledgements ix
5. Introduction xi
6. Identity, Agency, And Manliness In The Colonial And The National
7. Carnival and Masculinity in the Travel Fiction of James De Mille 3
8. “No Money, but Muscle and Pluck”: Cultivating Trans-Imperial Manliness for the Fields of Empire, 1870–1901 17
9. Who’s on the Home Front? Canadian Masculinity in the NFB’s Second World War Series “Canada Carries On” 39
10. Emotional Geographies of Anxiety, Eros, and Impairment
11. Making Art Like a Man! 55
12. “Above Mere Men”: The Heterogeneous Male in Attila Richard Lukacs 79
13. Stranger Than Paradise: Immigration and Impaired Masculinities 101
14. The Minority Male
15. The “Hood” Reconfigured: Black Masculinity in Rude 133
16. “Keepin’ It Real”? Masculinity, Indigeneity, and Media Representations of Gangsta Rap in Regina 149
17. Fixing Stories “Is Sure a Lot of Work”: Watching “the Men’s Dance” in Medicine River and Green Grass, Running Water 171
18. Masculinity in a Minority Setting: The Emblematic Body in Simone Chaput’s Le coulonneux 185
19. Capitalized, Corporatized, Compromised Men
20. The Politics of Marginalization at the Centre: Canadian Masculinities and Global Capitalism in Douglas Coupland’s Generation X 199
21. Dangerous Homosexualities and Disturbing Masculinities: The Disabling Rhetoric of Difference in Barbara Gowdy’s Mister Sandman 215
22. Abject Masculinities
23. What Do Heterosexual Men Want? Or, “The (Wandering) Queer Eye on the (Straight) Guy” 233
24. Boy to the Power of Three: Toronto’s Drag Kings 259
25. Life Without Death? Space, Affect, and Masculine Identity in the Work of Frank Cole 281
26. Bibliography 297
27. Biographical Notes 319
28. Index 325
29. Books in the Cultural Studies Series 342