Making it like a man : Canadian masculinities in practice / Christine Ramsay, editor.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-318) and index.

English.

Introduction / Christine Ramsay -- Identity, agency, and manliness in the colonial and the national. Carnival and masculinity in the travel fiction of James De Mille / Ken Wilson -- "No money, but muscle and pluck": cultivating trans-imperial manliness for the fields of empire, 1870-1901 / Jarett Henderson -- Who's on the home front? Canadian masculinity in the NFB's Second World War series "Canada carries on" / Michael Brendan Baker -- Emotional geographies of anxiety, eros and impairment. Making art like a man / David Garneau -- "Above mere men" : the heterogeneous male in Attila Richard Lukacs / Piet Defraeye -- Stranger than paradise: immigration and impaired masculinities / Christina Stojanova -- The minority male. The "hood" reconfigured: black masculinity in 'Rude' / D.L. McGregor and Sheila Petty -- "Keepin' it real"? masculinity, indigeneity, and media representations of gangsta rap in Regina / Charity Marsh -- Fixing stories "is sure a lot of work": watching "the men's dance" in 'medicine river' and 'green grass', 'running water' / Peter Cumming -- Masculinity in a minority setting: the emblematic body in Simone Chaput's 'le coulonneux' / Nicole Côté -- Capitalized, corporatized, compromised men. The politics of marginalization at the centre: Canadian masculinities and global capitalism in Douglas Coupland's 'generation X' / Kit Dobson -- Dangerous homosexualities and disturbing masculinities: the disabling rhetoric of difference in Barbara Gowdy's 'mister sandman' / Sally Hayward -- Abject masculinities. What do heterosexual men want? or, "the (wandering) queer eye on the (straight) guy" / Thomas Waugh -- Boy to the power of three: Toronto's drag kings / Bobby Noble -- Life without death? space, affect, and masculine identity in the work of Frank Cole / Christine Ramsey.

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. About Christine Ramsay Christine Ramsay is an associate professor in media studies at the University of Regina, Saskatchewan.

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