Fatherhood, Masculinity, and the Good Life During Canada's Baby Boom, 1945-1965

Bibliographic Data

ID21089594
AuthorsRobert Rutherdale (University of British Columbia, corresponding author)
Year1999
Volume24
Issue3
Pages351-373
Publication date1999-07-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Family History (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0363-1990 • E-ISSN: 1552-5473
PublisherSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/036319909902400307
OpenAlexW2009976745
LanguageEN
Citations received12

Based on fieldwork completed in two British Columbia locales—Prince George and Abbotsford—this study places oral histories of fatherhood in the context of idealistic depictions of masculine domesticity that circulated in the mass print media during the baby boom. It addresses tendencies among the men interviewed to frame stories of being husbands, parents, coaches, and family vacationers in material terms. Their self-portraits of domestic masculinity, incorporating the details of trailers, boats, cars, televisions, or vacations, suggest how gendered aspects of consumption by fathers in the 1950s and early 1960s became privileged as identifiable measures of both manful assertiveness and respectable manhood

Art history · Assertiveness · Baby boom · Boom · Masculinity · Population · Portrait · Social science · Sociology · Canadian Identity and History · Demography · Engineering · Gender Studies · Historical Gender and Feminism Studies · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes · History · Psychology · Social Psychology

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