What is masculinity?: historical dynamics from antiquity to the contemporary world

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 dynamicsof 'masculinity' as both an ideology and lived experience - how men have tried, and failed, to be 'Real Men'. JOHN H. ARNOLD is Professor of Medieval History at Birkbeck College, University of London, UK. He works on various aspects of medieval culture and modern historiography. SEAN BRADY is Lecturer in Modern British History at BirkbeckCollege, University of London, UK. He is an historian of modern British history and his 'Masculinity and Male Homosexuality in Britain, 1861-1913' has beeninternationally influential on the field. Both he and John H. Arnold are convening editors of Palgrave Macmillan's series 'Genders and Sexualities in History'. INDICE: Illustrations - Acknowledgements - Notes on Contributors - Introduction; 'J.H.Arnold' & 'S.Brady - 'PART I: PARADIGMS AND NOMENCLATURE - The History of Masculinity: an Outdated Concept?; 'J.Tosh' - Can the Hegemon Speak? Reading Masculinity through Anthropology; 'D.F.Janssen - 'The Whig Interpretation of Masculinity? Honour and Sexuality in Late Medieval Manhood; 'C.Fletcher - 'Masculinity without Conflict: Noblemen in Eighth and Ninth-Century Francia;'R.Stone' - PART II: MASCULINITY AND HEGEMONY - Masculinities in Early Hellenistic Athens; 'H.Berg' - Masculinity as a World Historical Category of Analysis; 'S.Yarrow - 'Hegemonic Masculinities? Assessing Change and Process of Change in Elite Masculinity, 1700-1900; 'H.French' - & 'M.Rothery - 'Masculinity and Fatherhood in England c. 1760-1830; 'J.Bailey - 'PART III: MATURING AND ADULTHOOD - Athenian Pederasty and the Construction of Masculinity; 'T.K.Hubbard -'An Orchard, a Love Letter, and Three Bastards: the Formation of Adult Male Identity in a Fifteenth-Century Family; 'R.E.Moss - ''To make a Man without Reason': Examining Manhood and Manliness in Early Modern England; 'J.Jordan - ''Boys, Semi-Men and Bearded Scholars': Maturity and Manliness in early Nineteenth-Century Oxford; 'H.Ellis - 'PART IV: DOMESTICITIES - St. Francis of Assisi and the Making of Settlement Masculinity, 1883-1914; 'L.Matthews-Jones' - HomesFit for Homos: Joe Orton, Masculinity, and the Domesticated Queer; 'M.Cook' -Three Faces of Fatherhood as a Masculine Category: Tyrants, Teachers, and Workaholics as 'Responsible Family Men' during Canada's Baby Boom; 'R.Rutherdale - 'PART V: MODERN FRONTIERS - Cow Boys, Cattle Men, and Competing Masculinities on the Texas Frontier; 'J.M.Moore' - Valorising Samurai Masculinity through Biblical Language: Christianity, Oscar Wilde, and Natsume Soseki's novel 'Kokoro'; 'K.Miyazaki' - 'Proper Government and Discipline': Family Religion and Masculine Authority in Nineteenth-Century Canada; 'N.Christie' - Punters and their Prostitutes: British Soldiers, Masculinity, and 'maisons tolérées in' the First World War; 'C.Makepeace - 'Conclusion - Masculinities, Histories, and Memories; 'V.Jeleniewski Seidler - '

• ISBN: 978-0-230-27813-4
• Editorial: Palgrave MacM
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 480
• Fecha Publicación: 01/07/2011
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés