What is masculinity? : historical dynamics from antiquity to the contemporary world /
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| Imprint: | Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. |
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| Description: | xiv, 461 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Genders and sexualities in history Genders and sexualities in history. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8454516 |
Table of Contents:
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Notes on Contributors
- 1. Introduction
- Part I. Paradigms and Nomenclature
- 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 The History of Masculinity: An Outdated Concept?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
- Part II. Masculinity and Hegemony
- 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, 1700-1900
- 9. 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
- Part IV. Domesticities
- 14. St Francis of Assisi and the Making of Settlement Masculinity, 1883-1914
- 15. 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
- Part V. Modern Frontiers
- 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 Tolerees in the First World War
- Conclusion
- 21. Masculinities, Histories and Memories
- Index