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What is Masculinity?

Historical Dynamics from Antiquity to the Contemporary World

By: J. Arnold (Editor), S. Brady (Editor)

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Hardcover | 18 April 2012 | Edition Number 1

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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."

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'The essays in What Is Masculinity? insightfully demonstrate that its titular question is inseparable from the questions of what were manhood, manliness and allied notions such as virility and gentlemanliness, leading up to contemporary scholarly conceptions of hegemonic masculinity and diverse masculinities. These stimulating explorations take us broadly and deeply through a wide range of times and places. They importantly challenge historians specifically, and the rest of us more generally, to push through the boundaries of traditional scholarship to reach more complex and nuanced understandings.' - Harry Brod, Editor of The Making of Masculinities and Theorizing Masculinities, and Professor of Philosophy and Humanities at the University of Northern Iowa, USA

'[...] Informative, original, and challenging to the historian of masculinity of any period (although possibly not of any region) to make this an invaluable collection of scholarship and seminal in its own right, potentially helping to define the field and its direction for years to come.' - Jessica Meyer, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK

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Non-Fiction Society & Culture Social Groups Gay & Lesbian Studies Gender Studies Gender Studies: Men and Boys Miscellaneous Items History General & World History Specific Events & Topics in History Social & Cultural History Earliest Times to Present Day

Regional & National History European History

List of Illustrations	p. viii
Acknowledgements	p. ix
Notes on Contributors	p. x
Introduction	p. 1
Paradigms and Nomenclature
The History of Masculinity: An Outdated Concept?	p. 17
Can the Hegemon Speak? Reading Masculinity through Anthropology	p. 35
The Whig Interpretation of Masculinity? Honour and Sexuality in Late Medieval Manhood	p. 57
Masculinity without Conflict: Noblemen in Eighth- and Ninth-Century Francia	p. 76
Masculinity and Hegemony
Masculinities in Early Hellenistic Athens	p. 97
Masculinity As a World Historical Category of Analysis	p. 114
Hegemonic Masculinities? Assessing Change and Processes of Change in Elite Masculinity, 1700-1900	p. 139
Masculinity and Fatherhood in England c. 1760-1830	p. 167
Athenian Pederasty and the Construction of Masculinity	p. 189
An Orchard, a Love Letter and Three Bastards: The Formation of Adult Male Identity in a Fifteenth-Century Family	p. 226
'To Make a Man Without Reason': Examining Manhood and Manliness in Early Modern England	p. 245
'Boys, Semi-Men and Bearded Scholars': Maturity and Manliness in Early Nineteenth-Century Oxford	p. 263
Domesticities
St Francis of Assisi and the Making of Settlement Masculinity, 1883-1914	p. 285
Homes Fit for Homos: Joe Orton, Masculinity and the Domesticated Queer	p. 303
Three Faces of Fatherhood As a Masculine Category: Tyrants, Teachers, and Workaholics As 'Responsible Family Men' during Canada's Baby Boom	p. 323
Modern Frontiers
Cow Boys, Cattle Men and Competing Masculinities on the Texas Frontier	p. 249
Valorising Samurai Masculinity through Biblical Language: Christianity, Oscar Wilde and Natsume Soseki's Novel Kokoro	p. 370
'Proper Government and Discipline': Family Religion and Masculine Authority in Nineteenth-Century Canada	p. 389
Punters and Their Prostitutes: British Soldiers, Masculinity and Maisons Tolerees in the First World War
Conclusion
Masculinities, Histories and Memories
Index
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What is Masculinity?

Historical Dynamics from Antiquity to the Contemporary World

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