The Manly Modern: Masculinity in Postwar Canada

by Christopher Dummitt

Book Overview

How did one act like a modern man in postwar Canada? With a great deal of difficulty. During the Great Depression and Second World War, many men were first out of work and then away from their families. After the war came attempts to re-establish the traditional gender hierarchy by emphasizing men's modernity, allegedly superior rationality, and ability to handle risk, but the strategy had contradictory repercussions. The Manly Modern: Masculinity...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0774812753
• ISBN13: 9780774812757
• Release Date: May 2008
• Publisher: University of British Columbia Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.