Title National manhood and the creation of modern Quebec / Jeffery Vacante

Published Vancouver ; Toronto : UBC Press, [2017]

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Description 1 online resource Contents The roots of national manhood -- Reinforcing heterosexual manhood -- The decline of the French Canadian race -- War and manhood -- The revitalization of national history -- The critique of national manhood Summary "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."-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 01, 2021) Subject Men -- Québec (Province) -- History -- 19th century Men -- Québec (Province) -- History -- 20th century Masculinity -- Québec (Province) -- History -- 19th century Masculinity -- Québec (Province) -- History -- 20th century Nationalism -- Québec (Province) -- History -- 19th century Nationalism -- Québec (Province) -- History -- 20th century SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies. Masculinity Men Nationalism Québec Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780774834650 077483465X 9780774834667 0774834668 9780774834674 0774834676

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