Title: Men and violence : gender, honor, and rituals in modern Europe and America /
Authors: Spierenburg, Petrus Cornelis.
Publisher: Ohio State University Press,
Year: 1998
Subjects: Masculinity Case studies.; Violence Case studies.; Honor.; Social classes; Dueling Case studies.; Lynching Case studies.; Violence; Men; Gender Identity; Social Class
Abstract: "There is growing interest in the history of masculinity and male culture, including violence, as an integral part of a proper understanding of gender. In almost every historical setting, masculinity and violence are closely linked; certainly, violent crime has been overwhelmingly a male enterprise. But violence is not always criminal: in many cultural contexts violence is linked instead to honor and encoded in rituals. We possess only an imperfect understanding of the ways in which aggressive behavior, or the abstention from aggressive behavior, contributes to the construction of masculinity and male honor. In this collection, internationally renowned expert Pieter Spierenburg brings together eight scholars to explore the fascinating interrelationship of masculinity, honor, and the body."--BOOK JACKET.
Contents: The taming of the noble ruffians : male violence and dueling in early modern and modern German / Ute Frevert -- Men of steel : dueling, honor, and politics in liberal Italy / Steven Hughes -- The end of the modern French duel / Robert Nye -- Knife fighting and popular codes of honor in early modern Amsterdam / Pieter Spierenburg -- Homicide and knife fighting in Rome, 1845-1914 / Daniele Boschi -- Fights/fires : violent firemen in the nineteenth-century American city / Amy Sophia Greenberg -- The Victorian criminalization of men / Martin J. Wiener -- White Supremacist justice and the rule of law : lynching, honor, and the state in Ben Tillman's South Carolina / Stephen Kantrowitz -- "The equal of some white men and the superior of others" : masculinity and the 1916 lynching of Anthony Crawford in Abbeville County, South Carolina.