Open AccessBoyhood Masculinity and Violence: How Toys and Sporting Equipment Taught Young Men Violence in Canada, 1900-1950
Author(s) -
Jocelyn Chugg
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
mount royal undergraduate humanities review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2562-4733
DOI - 10.29173/mruhr547
Subject(s) - masculinity , ideology , gender studies , subject (documents) , psychology , sociology , political science , law , politics , computer science , library science
In this essay I discuss the subject of violence and how toys and sporting equipment were used to teach young boys masculine behaviours that were aligned with the heterosexual ideologies of the first half of the 20th century in Canada.