Table of Contents

Introduction

1 The Roots of National Manhood

2 Reinforcing Heterosexual Manhood

3 The Decline of the French Canadian Race

4 War and Manhood

5 The Revitalization of National History

6 The Critique of National Manhood

Conclusion

Notes; Index

Promotional Information

This perceptive intellectual history of masculinity in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Quebec explores how the concept of manhood shaped French Canadian culture and an emerging Quebec nationalism.

About the Author

Jeffery Vacante is an assistant professor in the Department of History at the University of Western Ontario. He is an intellectual and gender historian whose research focuses on modern Quebec. His work has appeared in some of Canada's leading journals, including Canadian Historical Review, Journal of Canadian Studies, Left History, and University of Toronto Quarterly.

Reviews

Jeffery Vacante livre dans sa monographie une étude brillante sur l'articulation entre masculinité, nationalisme et modernité au Québec. - Camille Robert, Université du Québec à Montréal (Histoire Sociale)