Table of Contents

1 Introduction / Dimitry Anastakis; 2 The Sixties in Print: Remembering Quebec's Quiet Revolution / Gretta Chambers; 3 Canadian Women and the International Arena in the Sixties: The Voice of Women/La voix des femmes and the Opposition to the Vietnam War / Frances Early; 4 Negotiating Citizenship: Joyce Wieland's Reason over Passion / Kristy A. Holmes; 5 A Crash Course in Manhood: Men, Cars, and Risk in Postwar Vancouver / Christopher Dummitt; 6 "The Age of Aquarius": Medical Expertise and the Prevention and Control of Drug Use Undertaken by the Quebec and Ontario Governments / Marcel Martel; 7 Canada's Foul-Weather Friend: How the War Disguised de Gaulle's Designs / Olivier Courteaux; 8 The Ambivalence of Architectural Culture in Quebec and Canada, 1955-1975 / France Vanlaethem; 9 Art and Urban Renewal: MoMA's New City Exhibition and Halifax's Uniacke Square / Krys Verrall; 10 California Casual: How the Slouch Sold the Modern / Nicholas Olsberg

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A fresh new approach to a loud, lively and profound period of change

About the Author

Dimitry Anastakis teaches history at Trent University and is the author of Auto Pact: Creating a Borderless North American Auto Industry, 1960-1971.

Reviews

"The Sixties: Passion, Politics and Style makes a significant contribution to the existing historiography in Canada. The new areas in Canadian history addressed by the authors make this volume especially important." Robert Rutherdale, Algoma University College, Laurentian University