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The manly modern : masculinity in postwar Canada / Christopher Dummitt.
- Title
- The manly modern : masculinity in postwar Canada / Christopher Dummitt.
- Author
- Dummitt, Chris, 1973-
- Publication
- Vancouver : UBC Press, c2007.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | HQ1090.7.C2 D85 2007 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- 224 p.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "The Manly Modern: Masculinity in Postwar Canada traces the history of what happened when men's supposed modernity became one of their defining features. Through a series of case studies covering such diverse subjects as car culture, mountaineering, war veterans, murder trials, and a bridge collapse, Christopher Dummitt argues that the very idea of what it meant to be modern was gendered. A strong current of anti-modernist sentiment bubbled just beneath the surface of postwar masculinity, creating rumblings about the state of modern manhood that, ironically, mirrored the tensions that burst forth in 1960s gender radicalism."--Jacket.
- Series Statement
- Sexuality studies series
- Uniform Title
- Sexuality studies series.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Case studies
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [197]-211) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- 1. Introduction : the manly modern -- 2. Coming home -- 3. At work -- 4. In the mountains -- 5. Before the courts and on the couch -- 6. On the road -- 7. Conclusion : manly modernism in hindsight.
- ISBN
- 0774812745
- 9780774812740
- LCCN
- ^^2007390823
- OCLC
- 75087651
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library