Making It Like a Man : Canadian Masculinities in Practice / Christine Ramsay, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ramsay, Christine, 1958-

Series:

Cultural studies series (Waterloo, Ont.)

Cultural studies series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Men--Canada--Identity.

Men.

Masculinity--Canada.

Masculinity.

Masculinity--Social aspects--Canada.

Genre:

Aufsatzsammlung.

Physical Description:

1 electronic text (xxx, 341 p.) : ill. (some col.), digital file.

Place of Publication:

Waterloo, Ont. : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, c2011

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Making It Like a Man: Canadian Masculinities in Practice is a collection of essays on the practice of masculinities in Canadian arts and cultures, where to “make it like a man” is to participate in the cultural, sociological, and historical fluidity of ways of being a man in Canada, from the country’s origins in nineteenth-century Victorian values to its immersion in the contemporary post-modern landscape. The book focuses on the ways Canadian masculinities have been performed and represented through five broad themes: colonialism, nationalism, and transnationalism; emotion and affect; ethnic and minority identities; capitalist and domestic politics; and the question of men’s relationships with themselves and others. Chapters include studies of well-known and more obscure figures in the Canadian arts and culture scenes, such as visual artist Attila Richard Lukacs; writers Douglas Coupland, Barbara Gowdy, Simon Chaput, Thomas King, and James De Mille; filmmakers Clement Virgo, Norma Bailey, John N. Smith, and Frank Cole; as well as familiar and not-so-familiar tokens of Canadian masculinity such as the hockey hero, the gangsta rapper, the immigrant farmer, and the drag king. Making It Like a Man is the first book of its kind to explore and critique historical and contemporary masculinities in Canada with a special focus on artistic and cultural production and representation. It is concerned with mapping some of the uniquely Canadian places and spaces in the international field of masculinity studies, and will be of interest to academic and culturally informed audiences.

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Identity, Agency, And Manliness In The Colonial And The National

Carnival and Masculinity in the Travel Fiction of James De Mille

“No Money, but Muscle and Pluck”: Cultivating Trans-Imperial Manliness for the Fields of Empire, 1870–1901

Who’s on the Home Front? Canadian Masculinity in the NFB’s Second World War Series “Canada Carries On”

Emotional Geographies of Anxiety, Eros, and Impairment

Making Art Like a Man!

“Above Mere Men”: The Heterogeneous Male in Attila Richard Lukacs

Stranger Than Paradise: Immigration and Impaired Masculinities

The Minority Male

The “Hood” Reconfigured: Black Masculinity in Rude

“Keepin’ It Real”? Masculinity, Indigeneity, and Media Representations of Gangsta Rap in Regina

Fixing Stories “Is Sure a Lot of Work”: Watching “the Men’s Dance” in Medicine River and Green Grass, Running Water

Masculinity in a Minority Setting: The Emblematic Body in Simone Chaput’s Le coulonneux

Capitalized, Corporatized, Compromised Men

The Politics of Marginalization at the Centre: Canadian Masculinities and Global Capitalism in Douglas Coupland’s Generation X

Dangerous Homosexualities and Disturbing Masculinities: The Disabling Rhetoric of Difference in Barbara Gowdy’s Mister Sandman

Abject Masculinities

What Do Heterosexual Men Want? Or, “The (Wandering) Queer Eye on the (Straight) Guy”

Boy to the Power of Three: Toronto’s Drag Kings

Life Without Death? Space, Affect, and Masculine Identity in the Work of Frank Cole

Bibliography

Biographical Notes

Index

Books in the Cultural Studies Series

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9786613810724

9781554582792

1554582792

9781282232983

1282232983

9781554583751

1554583756

OCLC:

1036266551