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Current Research |
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I am completing a
book-length manuscript for review on fatherhood in the baby boom era with a focus
on parenting, family life and consumerism. This project is supported by
the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada and Algoma
University. Since, in Canada, nearly half of the generation (of
approximately two million men) that became postwar fathers served in World
War Two, this study intersects with my broader interests in war and society,
particularly histories of manhood and masculinity constructed in
wartime. This is a generational study. It is structured by the life
course of men, born in the 1920s, who grew up in the Great Depression, and
reached the self sufficiency and parenthood phase of their lives during, or
shortly after, World War Two. |