Making It Like a Man by Christine Ramsay

Making It Like a Man by Christine Ramsay

Includes a collection of essays on the practice of masculinities in Canadian arts and cultures, including visual art, literature, film, cultural history and sport, 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 19th century.

"Bringing together the fine arts, humanities, and social sciences in examining Canadian masculinities, Christine Ramsay's sophisticated anthology Making It Like A Man moves well beyond the old generalizations about masculinity and the usual emphasis on masculinity as being in a constant state of crisisThe range of topics, methods, and scholars is impressive and makes a rich contribution to understanding Canadian culture and demonstrates the need to pursue more work like this with a transdisciplinary approach to the intersection of masculinity and nationhood." - Peter Lehman, author of New Edition
"Making It Like A Man delves deftly and deeply into one of the most conspicuous voids in Canadian arts and culture, namely: where have all the heroes gone? It's the question that fascinates Christine Ramsay as much as the quest. The fact is, masculinity has never been a simple or static state in Canadian culture, and in this lies the revelation. If men in Canadian culture weren't in a state of perpetual representational crisis, they'd be from somewhere else." - Geoff Pevere, co-author , author of Mondo Canuck: A Canadian Pop Culture Odyssey Toronto on Film Goin' Down the Road
``The collection...investigates Canadian masculinities across disciplines, spaces, and time periods. Essays explore everything from national settlement propaganda in the late 1800s to Indigenous rap in contemporary Regina, and the authors make use of a wide array of analytical and theoretical approaches.... Making It Like a Man suggests that we need to move past the binaries (urban/rural, white collar/blue collar, bachelor/family) that govern them in order to engage more fully with the complexity of male identity in Canada.'' -- Jennifer Hardwick -- Canadian Literature, 216, Spring 2013

Christine Ramsay is an associate professor in media studies at the University of Regina, Saskatchewan. She is a past president of the Film Studies Association of Canada and a member of the editorial board of Topia: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies. She publishes in the areas of Canadian and Saskatchewan cinemas, masculinities in contemporary cultures, philosophies of identity, and the culture of small cities.

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ISBN 13	9781554583270
ISBN 10	1554583276
Title	Making It Like a Man
Author	Christine Ramsay
Series	Cultural Studies
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Year published	2011-10-30
Number of pages	372
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