What is Masculinity? [electronic resource] : Historical Dynamics from Antiquity to the Contemporary World /
Arnold, J.editor.
Brady, S.editor.
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'.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Half Title; Series; Title; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Contributors; 1 Introduction; 2 The History of Masculinity: An Outdated Concept?; 3 Can the Hegemon Speak? Reading Masculinity through Anthropology; 4 The Whig Interpretation of Masculinity? Honour and Sexuality in Late Medieval Manhood; 5 Masculinity without Conflict: Noblemen in Eighth- and Ninth-Century Francia; 6 Masculinities in Early Hellenistic Athens; 7 Masculinity As a World Historical Category of Analysis
8 Hegemonic Masculinities? Assessing Change and Processes of Change in Elite Masculinity, 1700-19009 Masculinity and Fatherhood in England c. 1760-1830; 10 Athenian Pederasty and the Construction of Masculinity; 11 An Orchard, a Love Letter and Three Bastards: The Formation of Adult Male Identity in a Fifteenth- Century Family; 12 'To Make a Man Without Reason': Examining Manhood and Manliness in Early Modern England; 13 'Boys, Semi- Men and Bearded Scholars': Maturity and Manliness in Early Nineteenth- Century Oxford
14 St Francis of Assisi and the Making of Settlement Masculinity, 1883-191415 Homes Fit for Homos: Joe Orton, Masculinity and the Domesticated Queer; 16 Three Faces of Fatherhood As a Masculine Category: Tyrants, Teachers, and Workaholics As 'Responsible Family Men' during Canada's Baby Boom; 17 Cow Boys, Cattle Men and Competing Masculinities on the Texas Frontier; 18 Valorising Samurai Masculinity through Biblical Language: Christianity, Oscar Wilde and Natsume Soseki's Novel Kokoro; 19 'Proper Government and Discipline': Family Religion and Masculine Authority in Nineteenth- Century Canada
20 Punters and Their Prostitutes: British Soldiers, Masculinity and Maisons Tolérées in the First World War21 Masculinities, Histories and Memories; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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'.
Sociology.
History, Ancient.
Europe-History-476-1492.
Social history.
History, Modern.
Gender Studies.
Ancient History.
History of Medieval Europe.
Social History.
Modern History.