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    612-822-4611

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Ontario Boys: Masculinity and the Idea of Boyhood in Postwar Ontario, 1945-1960

Ontario Boys: Masculinity and the Idea of Boyhood in Postwar Ontario, 1945-1960

Greig, Christopher J.

Paperback

Series: Studies in Childhood and Family in Canada, Book 19

Canadian HistoryGeneral EducationGeneral World History

ISBN10: 1554589002
ISBN13: 9781554589005
Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Published: Feb 4 2014
Pages: 220
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

Ontario Boys explores the preoccupation with boyhood in Ontario during the immediate postwar period, 1945-1960. It argues that a traditional version of boyhood was being rejuvenated in response to a population fraught with uncertainty, and suffering from insecurity, instability, and gender anxiety brought on by depression-era and wartime disruptions in marital, familial, and labour relations, as well as mass migration, rapid postwar economic changes, the emergence of the Cold War, and the looming threat of atomic annihilation. In this sociopolitical and cultural context, concerned adults began to cast the fate of the postwar world onto children, in particular boys.

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