Men and Manliness on the Frontier [electronic resource] : Queensland and British Columbia in the Mid-Nineteenth Century /
Hogg, R.author.
In mid-nineteenth-century Britain, there existed a dominant discourse on what it meant to be a man –denoted by the term 'manliness'. Based on the sociological work of R.W. Connell and others who argue that gender is performative, Robert Hogg asks how British men performed manliness on the colonial frontiers of Queensland and British Columbia.
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Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; Maps; 1 Masculinities and Frontiers; 2 The Most Manly Class That Exists; 3 The Sterling Qualities of the Saxon Race; 4 Men without (White) Women; 5 Blacks, Chinks and a Pig-Headed German; 6 A Hand Prepared to be Red; 7 A Wild Self-Dependence of Character; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
In mid-nineteenth-century Britain, there existed a dominant discourse on what it meant to be a man –denoted by the term 'manliness'. Based on the sociological work of R.W. Connell and others who argue that gender is performative, Robert Hogg asks how British men performed manliness on the colonial frontiers of Queensland and British Columbia.
World history.
Great Britain—History.
Clinical psychology.
Imperialism.
Sociology.
Social history.
World History, Global and Transnational History.
History of Britain and Ireland.
Clinical Psychology.
Imperialism and Colonialism.
Gender Studies.
Social History.