Screen LibraryWhat is masculinity? Historical dynamics from antiquity to the contemporary world /
Across history, the ideas and practices of male identity have varied much between time and place: masculinity proves to be a slippery concept, not available to all men, sometimes even applied to women. This book analyses the dynamics of 'masculinity' as both an ideology and lived experienc...
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| Literature type: | Electronic Software eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Genders and sexualities in history
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Across history, the ideas and practices of male identity have varied much between time and place: masculinity proves to be a slippery concept, not available to all men, sometimes even applied to women. This book analyses the dynamics of 'masculinity' as both an ideology and lived experience - how men have tried, and failed, to be 'Real Men'. |
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Electronic book text. Epublication based on: 9780230278134, 2011. |
| Carrier Form: | 480 p. : 21 b&w, ill. |
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9780230278134 9780230307254 : 0230307256 : |
| CLC: | K103 |
| Contents: | Illustrations Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction-- J.H.Arnold & S.Brady PART I: PARADIGMS AND NOMENCLATURE The History of Masculinity: an Outdated Concept?-- J.Tosh Can the Hegemon Speak? Reading Masculinity through Anthropology-- D.F.Janssen The Whig Interpretation of Masculinity? Honour and Sexuality in Late Medieval Manhood-- C.Fletcher Masculinity without Conflict: Noblemen in Eighth and Ninth-Century Francia-- R.Stone PART II: MASCULINITY AND HEGEMONY Masculinities in Early Hellenistic Athens-- H.Berg Masculinity as a World Historical Category of Analysis-- S.Yarrow Hegemonic Masculinities? Assessing Change and Process of Change in Elite Masculinity, 1700-1900-- H.French & M.Rothery Masculinity and Fatherhood in England c. 1760-1830-- J.Bailey PART III: MATURING AND ADULTHOOD Athenian Pederasty and the Construction of Masculinity-- T.K.Hubbard An Orchard, a Love Letter, and Three Bastards: the Formation of Adult Male Identity in a Fifteenth-Century Family-- R.E.Moss 'To make a Man without Reason': Examining Manhood and Manliness in Early Modern England-- J.Jordan 'Boys, Semi-Men and Bearded Scholars': Maturity and Manliness in early Nineteenth-Century Oxford-- H.Ellis PART IV: DOMESTICITIES St. Francis of Assisi and the Making of Settlement Masculinity, 1883-1914-- L.Matthews-Jones Homes Fit for Homos: Joe Orton, Masculinity, and the Domesticated Queer-- M.Cook Three Faces of Fatherhood as a Masculine Category: Tyrants, Teachers, and Workaholics as 'Responsible Family Men' during Canada's Baby Boom-- R.Rutherdale PART V: MODERN FRONTIERS Cow Boys, Cattle Men, and Competing Masculinities on the Texas Frontier-- J.M.Moore Valorising Samurai Masculinity through Biblical Language: Christianity, Oscar Wilde, and Natsume Soseki's novel Kokoro-- K.Miyazaki 'Proper Government and Discipline': Family Religion and Masculine Authority in Nineteenth-Century Canada-- N.Christie Punters and their Prostitutes: British Soldiers, Masculinity, and maisons tolerees in the First World War-- C.Makepeace Conclusion Masculinities, Histories, and Memories-- V.Jeleniewski Seidler. |