The Sixties : passion, politics, and style / edited by Dimitry Anastakis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Anastakis, Dimitry, Author.

Contributor:

Anastakis, Dimitry, 1970-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nineteen sixties.

Canada--Social conditions--20th century.

Canada.

Canada--History--1963-.

Canada--History--1945-1963.

Canada--Social life and customs--1945-.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (208 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Those who didn't live through the Sixties wonder what the fuss was all about, while many of those who were there have wrestled with how to describe and define the period. While the ultimate meaning of the Sixties remains elusive, there is no doubt that they had an immense effect on Canadians - culturally, politically, and economically. The Sixties takes a multidisciplinary approach that includes history, architecture, art, political science, and journalism. Contributors examine a range of eclectic issues - from the intersection of Joyce Wieland's artwork with Pierre Trudeau's nationalism, to the debate over the changing skylines of Toronto and Montreal, to de Gaulle's famous 1967 "Vive le Québec libre!" speech - to provide a distinctly Canadian perspective on one of the liveliest and most debated periods in modern history. Four decades after Canada's own Expo 67 "summer of love," this timely book conjures up the images, sounds, and tastes of a decade that remains an indelible part of our twenty-first century experience. Contributors include Gretta Chambers (McGill), Christopher Dummitt (Trent), Olivier Courteaux (Ryerson), Frances Early (Mount Saint Vincent), Kristy Holmes (Queen's), Marcel Martel (York), Nicholas Olsberg (Canadian Centre for Architecture), Francine Vanlaethem (UQAM), and Krys Verrall (York)."

Contents:

Introduction / Dimitry Anastakis

The sixties in print : remembering Quebec's quiet revolution / Gretta Chambers

Canadian women and the international arena in the sixties : the voice of women/La voix des femmes and the opposition to the Vietnam War / Frances Early

Negotiating citizenship : Joyce Wieland's Reason over passion / Kristy A. Holmes

A crash course in manhood : men, cars, and risk in postwar Vancouver / Christopher Dummitt

"The age of Aquarius" : medical expertise and the prevention and control of drug use undertaken by the Quebec and Ontario governments / Marcel Martel

Canada's foul-weather friend : how the war disguised de Gaulle's designs / Olivier Courteaux

The ambivalence of architectural culture in Quebec and Canada, 1955-1975 / France Vanlaetham

Art and urban renewal : MOMA's new city exhibition and Halifax's Uniacke Square / Krys Verrall

California casual : how the slouch sold the modern / Nicholas Olsberg.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612864384

9780773578500

0773578501

9781282864382

1282864386

9780773574342

0773574344

OCLC:

647844439