Making Men, Making History

Peter Gossage is a professor of Quebec and Canadian history at Concordia University, focusing on family, gender, and society in Quebec. His published works include Families in Transition: Industry and Population in Nineteenth-Century Saint-Hyacinthe and, with J.I. Little, An Illustrated History of Quebec: Tradition and Modernity. Robert Rutherdale is an associate professor of Canadian history at Algoma University. He is the author of Hometown Horizons: Local Responses to Canada's Great War and co-editor, with Magda Fahrni, of Creating Postwar Canada: Community, Diversity, and Dissent, 1945–75.

• Introduction Part 1: Expertise and Authority1 Medical Men, Masculine Respectability, and the Contest for Power in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Quebec / Lisa Chilton2 Accident Prevention in Early-Twentieth-Century Quebec and the Construction of Masculine Technical Expertise / Magda Fahrni3 "The Spiritual Aspect": Gordon A. Friesen and the Mechanization of the Modern Hospital / David Theodore4 "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-DrakePart 2: Masculine Spaces5 The Place of Manliness: Architecture, Domesticity, and Men's Clubs / Annmarie Adams6 "As Christ the Carpenter": Work-Camp Missions and the Construction of Christian Manhood in Late-Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century Canada / Norman Knowles7 An Open Window on Other Masculinities: Gay Bars and Visibility in Montreal / Olivier VallerandPart 3: Performing Masculinities8 Scales of Manliness: Masculinity and Disability in the Displays of Little People as Freaks in Ontario, 1900s–50s / Jane Nicholas9 Claiming "Our Game": Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Lacrosse and the Performance of Indigenous Nationhood in the Early Twentieth Century / Allan Downey10 Sea Shepherds, Eco-warriors, and Impresarios: Performing Eco-masculinity in the Canadian Seal Hunt of the Late Twentieth Century / Willeen G. Keough11 The New Quebec Man: Activism and Collective Improvisation at Petit Québec Libre, 1970–73 / Eric FillionPart 4: Boys to Men12 Men's Business: Masculine Adolescence and Social Projection in Selected Coming-of-Age Novels from Interwar Quebec / Louise Bienvenue and Christine Hudon13 Boys and Boyhood: Exploring the Lives of Boys in Windsor, Ontario, during the Postwar Era, 1945–65 / Christopher J. Greig14 Heroes on Campus: Student Veterans and Discourses of Masculinity in Post–Second World War Canada / Patricia Jasen15 Constructing Canadianness: Terry Fox and the Masculine Ideal in Canada / Julie PerronePart 5: Men in Motion16 Tough Bodies, Fast Paddles, Well-Dressed Wives: Measuring Manhood Among French Canadian and Métis Voyageurs in the North American Fur Trade / Carolyn Podruchny17 "The Moral Grandeur of Fleeing to Canada": Masculinity and the Gender Politics of American Draft Dodgers during the Vietnam War / Lara Campbell18 Rebellion on the Road: Masculinity and Outlaw Motorcycle Clubs in Postwar Ontario / Graeme MelcherPart 6: Faces of Fatherhood19 Celebrating the Family Man: From Father's Day to La Fête des Pères, 1910–60 / Peter Gossage20 "I'm a lousy father": Alcoholic Fathers in Postwar Canada and the Myths of Masculine Crises / Robert RutherdaleAfterwordIndex