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Manful assertions masculinities in Britain since 1800
Title
Manful assertions masculinities in Britain since 1800 / edited by Michael Roper and John Tosh.
ISBN
1000443035
1000445968
9781000443035
9781000445961
0415053226
0415053234
9780415053228
9780415053235
Published
London ; New York : Routledge, 1991.
Physical Description
1 online resource (x, 221 pages ): illustrations.
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Summary
Masculine assertions, whether of verbal command, political power or physical violence, have formed the subject matter of history. This volume combines current discussions in sexual politics with historical analysis to demonstrate that masculinity is an historical and cultural construct.
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Taylor & Francis. EBA 2024-2025.
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Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 07, 2024
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 212-213) and index.
Contents
Introduction : historians and the politics of masculinity / Michael Roper and John Tosh
Strenuous idleness : Thomas Carlyle and the man of letters as hero / Norma Clarke
Domesticity and manliness in the Victorian middle class : the family of Edward White Benson / John Tosh
Masculinity and the 'representative artisan' in Britain, 1850-80 / Keith McClelland
'I live but not yet I for Christ liveth in me' : men and masculinity in the Salvation Army, 1865-90 / Pamela J. Walker
The blond bedouin : Lawrence of Arabia, imperial adventure and the imagining of English-British masculinity / Graham Dawson
Knowing your place : the tensions of manliness in boys' story papers, 1918-39 / Kelly Boyd.
Mummy, matron and the maids : feminine presence and absence in male institutions, 1934-63 / Peter M. Lewis
Yesterday's model : product fetishism and the British company man, 1945-85 / Michael Roper.
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