Making Men, Making History

Introduction

Part 1: Expertise and Authority

1 Medical Men, Masculine Respectability, and the Contest for Power in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Quebec / Lisa Chilton

2 Accident Prevention in Early-Twentieth-Century Quebec and the Construction of Masculine Technical Expertise / Magda Fahrni

3 "The Spiritual Aspect": Gordon A. Friesen and the Mechanization of the Modern Hospital / David Theodore

4 "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

Part 2: Masculine Spaces

5 The Place of Manliness: Architecture, Domesticity, and Men's Clubs / Annmarie Adams

6 "As Christ the Carpenter": Work-Camp Missions and the Construction of Christian Manhood in Late-Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century Canada / Norman Knowles

7 An Open Window on Other Masculinities: Gay Bars and Visibility in Montreal / Olivier Vallerand

Part 3: Performing Masculinities

8 Scales of Manliness: Masculinity and Disability in the Displays of Little People as Freaks in Ontario, 1900s–50s / Jane Nicholas

9 Claiming "Our Game": Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Lacrosse and the Performance of Indigenous Nationhood in the Early Twentieth Century / Allan Downey

10 Sea Shepherds, Eco-warriors, and Impresarios: Performing Eco-masculinity in the Canadian Seal Hunt of the Late Twentieth Century / Willeen G. Keough

11 The New Quebec Man: Activism and Collective Improvisation at Petit Québec Libre, 1970–73 / Eric Fillion

Part 4: Boys to Men

12 Men's Business: Masculine Adolescence and Social Projection in Selected Coming-of-Age Novels from Interwar Quebec / Louise Bienvenue and Christine Hudon

13 Boys and Boyhood: Exploring the Lives of Boys in Windsor, Ontario, during the Postwar Era, 1945–65 / Christopher J. Greig

14 Heroes on Campus: Student Veterans and Discourses of Masculinity in Post–Second World War Canada / Patricia Jasen

15 Constructing Canadianness: Terry Fox and the Masculine Ideal in Canada / Julie Perrone

Part 5: Men in Motion

16 Tough Bodies, Fast Paddles, Well-Dressed Wives: Measuring Manhood Among French Canadian and Métis Voyageurs in the North American Fur Trade / Carolyn Podruchny

17 "The Moral Grandeur of Fleeing to Canada": Masculinity and the Gender Politics of American Draft Dodgers during the Vietnam War / Lara Campbell

18 Rebellion on the Road: Masculinity and Outlaw Motorcycle Clubs in Postwar Ontario / Graeme Melcher

Part 6: Faces of Fatherhood

19 Celebrating the Family Man: From Father's Day to La Fête des Pères, 1910–60 / Peter Gossage

20 "I'm a lousy father": Alcoholic Fathers in Postwar Canada and the Myths of Masculine Crises / Robert Rutherdale

Afterword

Index