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'.
Erscheinungsdatum: 14.06.2011

edited by John H. Arnold and Sean Brady

Arnold, John, 1969-; Brady, Sean, 1964-

Arnold, John, Sean Brady

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York: Palgrave Macmillan

Macmillan Publishers Limited

Macmillan Education UK

Campbell Books Ltd

Genders and sexualities in history, Genders and sexualities in history, Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, New York, England, 2011

Genders and sexualities in history, Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, 2013

United Kingdom and Ireland, United Kingdom

2011, PS, 2011

Includes bibliographical references and index.

xiv, 461 p. : 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index
Introduction / John H. Arnold and Sean Brady -- The history of masculinity : an outdated concept? / John Tosh -- Can the hegemon speak? : reading masculinity through anthropology / Diederik F. Janssen -- The Whig interpretation of masculinity? : honour and sexuality in late medieval manhood / Christopher Fletcher -- Masculinity without conflict : noblemen in eighth and ninth-century Francia / Rachel Stone -- Masculinities in early Hellenistic Athens / Henrik Berg -- Masculinity as a world historical category of analysis / Simon Yarrow -- Hegemonic masculinities? : assessing change and process of change in elite masculinity, 1700-1900 / Henry French and Mark Rothery -- Masculinity and fatherhood in England c. 1760-1830 / Joanne Bailey -- Athenian pederasty and the construction of masculinity / Thomas K. Hubbard -- An orchard, a love letter, and three bastards : the formation of adult male identity in a fifteenth-century family / Rachel E. Moss -- 'To make a man without reason' : examining manhood and manliness in early modern England / Jennifer Jordan -- 'Boys, semi-men and bearded scholars' : maturity and manliness in early nineteenth-century Oxford / Heather Ellis -- St. Francis of Assisi and the making of settlement masculinity, 1883-1914 / Lucinda Matthews-Jones -- Homes fit for homos : Joe Orton, masculinity, and the domesticated queer / Matt Cook -- Three faces of fatherhood as a masculine category : tyrants, teachers, and workaholics as 'responsible family men' during Canada's baby boom / Robert Rutherdale -- Cow boys, cattle men, and competing masculinities on the Texas frontier / Jacqueline M. Moore -- Valorising samurai masculinity through biblical language : Christianity, Oscar Wilde, and Natsume Soseki's novel Kokoro / Kasumi Miyazaki -- 'Proper government and discipline' : family religion and masculine authority in nineteenth-century Canada / Nancy Christie -- Punters and their prostitutes : British soldiers, masculinity, and maisons tolerees in the First World War / Clare Makepeace -- Masculinities, histories, and memories / Victor Jeleniewski Seidler

Introduction / John H. Arnold and Sean Brady
The history of masculinity : an outdated concept? / John Tosh
Can the hegemon speak? : reading masculinity through anthropology / Diederik F. Janssen
The Whig interpretation of masculinity? : honour and sexuality in late medieval manhood / Christopher Fletcher
Masculinity without conflict : noblemen in eighth and ninth-century Francia / Rachel Stone
Masculinities in early Hellenistic Athens / Henrik Berg
Masculinity as a world historical category of analysis / Simon Yarrow
Hegemonic masculinities? : assessing change and process of change in elite masculinity, 1700-1900 / Henry French and Mark Rothery
Masculinity and fatherhood in England c. 1760-1830 / Joanne Bailey
Athenian pederasty and the construction of masculinity / Thomas K. Hubbard
An orchard, a love letter, and three bastards : the formation of adult male identity in a fifteenth-century family / Rachel E. Moss
'To make a man without reason' : examining manhood and manliness in early modern England / Jennifer Jordan
'Boys, semi-men and bearded scholars' : maturity and manliness in early nineteenth-century Oxford / Heather Ellis
St. Francis of Assisi and the making of settlement masculinity, 1883-1914 / Lucinda Matthews-Jones
Homes fit for homos : Joe Orton, masculinity, and the domesticated queer / Matt Cook
Three faces of fatherhood as a masculine category : tyrants, teachers, and workaholics as 'responsible family men' during Canada's baby boom / Robert Rutherdale
Cow boys, cattle men, and competing masculinities on the Texas frontier / Jacqueline M. Moore
Valorising samurai masculinity through biblical language : Christianity, Oscar Wilde, and Natsume Soseki's novel Kokoro / Kasumi Miyazaki
'Proper government and discipline' : family religion and masculine authority in nineteenth-century Canada / Nancy Christie
Punters and their prostitutes : British soldiers, masculinity, and maisons tolérées in the First World War / Clare Makepeace
Masculinities, histories, and memories / Victor Jeleniewski Seidler.

What is masculinity? Looked at across time - from antiquity to the modern day - the contours of 'manliness' take on an intriguing complexity. As the various contributors to this volume demonstrate, the ideas and practices of male identity have varied considerably over time and place: masculinity proves to be a slippery concept, one not available to all men, and one sometimes even applied to certain women. By looking at masculinity over time, this ground-breaking book presents a variety of new perspectives on the nature of masculinity, its social and political functions, and the methods by which historians and others might seek to analyse it. Each author provides both a case study of what 'masculinity' means (or fails to mean) in a specific historical moment, and contributes to a wider collective analysis of the changing historical dynamics to male identity. Overall, the book provides a key methodological landmark in the study of gender history

<p>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.</p>

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