What is masculinity?
Subtitle: historical dynamics from antiquity to the contemporary world
By: edited by John H. Arnold and Sean Brady
Series: Genders and sexualities in history; Genders and sexualities in history
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 461
ISBN-13: 9780230278134
Subjects: Conduct of life; Masculinity; Gay men; Social conditions; Gender identity; Identity; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / John H. Arnold and Sean Brady; title: The history of masculinity : an outdated concept? / John Tosh; title: Can the hegemon speak? : reading masculinity through anthropology / Diederik F. Janssen; title: The Whig interpretation of masculinity? : honour and sexuality in late medieval manhood / Christopher Fletcher; title: Masculinity without conflict : noblemen in eighth and ninth-century Francia / Rachel Stone; title: Masculinities in early Hellenistic Athens / Henrik Berg; title: Masculinity as a world historical category of analysis / Simon Yarrow; title: Hegemonic masculinities? : assessing change and process of change in elite masculinity, 1700-1900 / Henry French and Mark Rothery; title: Masculinity and fatherhood in England c. 1760-1830 / Joanne Bailey; title: Athenian pederasty and the construction of masculinity / Thomas K. Hubbard; title: An orchard, a love letter, and three bastards : the formation of adult male identity in a fifteenth-century family / Rachel E. Moss; title: 'To make a man without reason' : examining manhood and manliness in early modern England / Jennifer Jordan; title: 'Boys, semi-men and bearded scholars' : maturity and manliness in early nineteenth-century Oxford / Heather Ellis; title: St. Francis of Assisi and the making of settlement masculinity, 1883-1914 / Lucinda Matthews-Jones; title: Homes fit for homos : Joe Orton, masculinity, and the domesticated queer / Matt Cook; title: Three faces of fatherhood as a masculine category : tyrants, teachers, and workaholics as 'responsible family men' during Canada's baby boom / Robert Rutherdale; title: Cow boys, cattle men, and competing masculinities on the Texas frontier / Jacqueline M. Moore; title: Valorising samurai masculinity through biblical language : Christianity, Oscar Wilde, and Natsume Soseki's novel Kokoro / Kasumi Miyazaki; title: 'Proper government and discipline' : family religion and masculine authority in nineteenth-century Canada / Nancy Christie; title: Punters and their prostitutes : British soldiers, masculinity, and maisons tolérées in the First World War / Clare Makepeace; title: Masculinities, histories, and memories / Victor Jeleniewski Seidler.