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.

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Table of Contents for Making It Like a Man: Canadian Masculinities in Practice , edited by Christine Ramsay List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction | Christine Ramsay I. Identity, Agency, and Manliness in the Colonial and the National 1. Carnival and Masculinity in the Travel Fiction of James De Mille | Ken Wilson 2. âNo Money, but Muscle and Pluckâ: Cultivating Trans-Imperial Manliness for the Fields of Empire, 1870â1901 | Jarett Henderson 3. Whoâs on the Home Front? Canadian Masculinity in the NFBâs Second World War Series âCanada Carries Onâ | Michael Brendan Baker II. Emotional Geographies of Anxiety, Eros, and Impairment 4. Making Art Like a Man! | David Garneau 5. âAbove Mere Menâ: The Heterogeneous Male in Attila Richard Lukacs | Piet Defraeye 6. Stranger Than Paradise: Immigration and Impaired Masculinities | Christina Stojanova III. The Minority Male 7. The âHoodâ Reconfigured: Black Masculinity in Rude | D.L. McGregor and Sheila Petty 8. âKeepinâ It Realâ? Masculinity, Indigeneity, and Media Representations of Gangsta Rap in Regina | Charity Marsh 9. Fixing Stories âIs Sure a Lot of Workâ: Watching âthe Menâs Danceâ in Medicine River and Green Grass, Running Water | Peter Cumming 10. Masculinity in a Minority Setting: The Emblematic Body in Simone Chaputâs Le coulonneux | Nicole CÃ'té IV. Capitalized, Corporatized, Compromised Men 11. The Politics of Marginalization at the Centre: Canadian Masculinities and Global Capitalism in Douglas Couplandâs Generation X | Kit Dobson 12. Dangerous Homosexualities and Disturbing Masculinities: The Disabling Rhetoric of Difference in Barbara Gowdyâs Mister Sandman | Sally S. Hayward V. Abject Masculinities 13. What Do Heterosexual Men Want? Or, âThe (Wandering) Queer Eye on the (Straight) Guyâ | Thomas Waugh 14. Boy to the Power of Three: Torontoâs Drag Kings | Bobby Noble 15. Life Without Death? Space, Affect, and Masculine Identity in the Work of Frank Cole | Christine Ramsay Bibliography Biographical Notes Index Contributorsâ Bios Michael Baker (Ph.D., McGill University) is the FQRSC Postdoctoral Fellow in the Centre for Cinema Studies, Department of Theatre and Film, at the University of British Columbia. He is co-editor of Challenge for Change: Activist Documentary at the National Film Board of Canada (with Thomas Waugh and Ezra Winton) and author of numerous book chapters and journal articles on film and media. Nicole CÃ'té is Associate Professor at the Department of Literature and Communication, University of Sherbrooke. She has published a number of articles and chapters on Quebec and on Franco- and Anglo-Canadian literatures. She has translated several Canadian authors and has edited two volumes of short stories, which she also translated: Nouvelles du Canada anglais (1999), an anthology; and Vers le rivage (2004), stories from Mavis Gallant ranging from the 1950s to the 1990s. She also co-edited Varieties of Exiles: New Essays on Mavis Gallant (2002), and Expressions culturelles de la francophonie mondiale (2008). She is French book review editor for Journal of Canadian Studies and is an editorial board member of Analyses . Her research centres on questions of identity, gender, and minorities, as well as on questions of cultural transfers. Peter E. Cumming is Associate Professor of Childrenâs Literature and Culture and is Coordinator of the Childrenâs Studies Program at York University. His M.A. thesis, âLife After Man: âNewâ Men in Canadian Fiction,â and his Ph.D. dissertation, âSome âMaleâ from Canada âPostâ: Heterosexual Masculinities in Contemporary Canadian Writing,â focus on constructions of masculinities in contemporary Canadian writing, including in the works of Robert Kroetsch, Guy Vanderhaeghe, Leon Rooke, Leonard Cohen, Brian Fawcett, Thomas King, and Michael Ondaatje. As a teacher, consultant, and writer, Peter worked for six years in Inuit communities in Nunavut. Peter has taught Childrenâs Literature, Canadian Literature, First Nations Literature, Creative and Expository Writing, Theatre, and Film at Guelph and York Universities as well as the University of Western Ontario. He is also a childrenâs author ( A Horse Called Farmer, Mogul and Me, Out on the Ice in the Middle of the Bay ) and playwright in theatre for young audiences (including the bilingual plays Ti-Jean and Snowdreams ). Peter is President of the Association for Research in Cultures of Young People (ARCYP). Piet Defraeye is Associate Professor and Graduate Program Coordinator in the Department of Drama at the University of Alberta. He is a drama critic, theorist, director, and dramaturge. Before coming to the University of Alberta, he taught and directed in Belgium, Toronto, and Fredericton. Recent directing credits include Arnold Weskerâs The Kitchen (1999) and Von Kleistâs Amphitryon (2002). His areas of specialization include dramaturgy, performance studies, theatre theory and modern drama, theatre of provocation, audience reception, Quebec theatre, and European theatre practices. Kit Dobson is Assis tant Professor in the Department of English at Calgaryâs Mount Royal University, where he works in Canadian Literature, Globalization Studies, and Film. His first book, Transnational Canadas: Anglo-Canadian Literature and Globalization , was published by Wilfrid Laurier University Press in 2009. David Garneau is Associate Professor of Visual Arts at the University of Regina. He was born and raised in Edmonton, received most of his postsecondary education (B.F.A. Painting and Drawing, M.A. English Literature) at the University of Calgary, and taught at the Alberta College of Art and Design for five years before moving to Regina in 1999. His practice includes painting, drawing, curation, and critical writing. His solo exhibition, Cowboys and Indians (and Métis?) , toured Canada, 2003â7. His work often engages issues of nature, history, masculinity, and Métis identity. His artworks are in the collections of the Canadian Museum of Civilization, the Canadian Parliament, the Indian and Inuit Art Centre, the Glenbow Museum, the MacKenzie Art Gallery, and many other public and private collections. He has curated several large group exhibitions: The End of the World (as we know it), Picture Windows: New Abstraction, Transcendent Squares, Sophisticated Folk, Contested Histories , and Making It Like a Man! Garneau has written numerous catalogue essays and reviews and was a co-founder and co-editor of Artichoke and Cameo magazines. He is currently exploring the Carlton Trail and roadkill as landscape subjects and working on curatorial projects featuring contemporary Aboriginal art exchanges between Canada and Australia. Sally Hayward received her Ph.D. in 2006 from the Department of English and Film Studies at the University of Alberta. Since 2007 she has worked as an instructor in the Academic Writing Program at the University of Lethbridge. Her research focuses on the rhetorical and narrative construction of disability in literature, medicine, the law, and the media. More specifically, she analyzes how and why people with disabilities are either appropriated by or occluded from the national imaginary. Her interest in disability and masculinity is reflected in the work she has done on the Robert Latimer case as well as in ââThose Who Cannot Workâ: An Exploration of Disabled Men and Masculinity in Henry Mayhewâs London Labour and the London Poor,â which was published in Prose Studies , and in â(Dis)Enabling Masculinities: The Word and the Body, Class Politics, and Male Sexuality in El Saadawiâs God Dies by the Nile,â which was published in African Masculinities . Jarett Henderson completed his M.A. in Western Canadian social history at the University of Manitoba in 2004 and his Ph.D. in Canadian history at York University in 2010. His research interests include, but are not limited to, the intimate intersection of domestic and political life, the conflict between colonial and imperial states, and how the lived history of nineteenth-century imperialism was affected by notions of gender, race, status, and sexuality. He has taught Canadian history in Winnipeg, Toronto, and Oshawa and is currently completing a manuscript on Lord Durhamâs 1838 administration. Charity Marsh holds the Canada Research Chair in Interactive Media and Performance in the Department of Media Production and Studies at the University of Regina. She completed her Ph.D. in Popular Studies and Ethnomusicology at York University. Her thesis was titled âRaving Cyborgs, Queering Practices, and Discourses of Freedom: The Search for Meaning in Torontoâs Rave Culture.â Her current research focuses on interactive media and performance and how cultures and practices associated with this broad category contri