ISBN:
9780774834643
Language:
English
Pages:
vii, 244 Seiten
,
24 cm
Edition:
[Reprint]
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
305.3109714
Keywords:
1800-1999 / fast
;
Geschichte 1900-2000
;
Geschichte 1800-1900
;
Geschichte 1870-1950
;
History / fast / (OCoLC)fst01411628
;
Masculinity / fast / (OCoLC)fst01011027
;
Men / fast / (OCoLC)fst01015978
;
Nationalism / fast / (OCoLC)fst01033832
;
Geschichte
;
Nationalismus
;
Men History 19th century
;
Men History 20th century
;
Masculinity History 19th century
;
Masculinity History 20th century
;
Nationalism History 19th century
;
Nationalism History 20th century
;
Masculinity
;
Men
;
Nationalism
;
Urbanität
;
Wandel
;
Nationalismus
;
Autonomie
;
Identität
;
Landwirtschaft
;
Mann
;
Québec / fast / (OCoLC)fst01207316
;
Québec
;
Québec
;
1800-1999
;
fast
;
Québec
;
Mann
;
Landwirtschaft
;
Identität
;
Wandel
;
Urbanität
;
Autonomie
;
Nationalismus
;
Geschichte 1870-1950
Abstract:
"This intellectual history explores how the idea of manhood shaped French Canadian culture and Quebec's nationalist movement. During the latter half of the nineteenth century, Quebec was an agrarian society and masculinity was rooted in the land and the family and informed by Catholic principles of piety and self-restraint. As the industrial era took hold, French Canadians grew increasingly preoccupied with what it meant to be a man. A new model of manhood was forged, built on the values of secularism and individualism. Jeffery Vacante's perceptive analysis of fiction and non-fiction sources reveals how French Canadian intellectuals defined masculinity and themselves in response to imperialist English Canadian ideals. By the mid-twentieth century, this new "national manhood" would be disentangled from the workplace, the family, and the land and tied instead to one's cultural identity. The new formulation was crucial in the larger struggle to modernize Quebec's institutions and economic relationships while preserving French Canadian community, faith, and culture. It offered French Canadian men a way to remodel themselves, fortifying their role in society and enabling them to participate in industrial modernity without relinquishing their cultural authority."...
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-231) and index
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