Manliness and Masculinities in Nineteenth-Century Britain: Essays on Gender, Family and Empire

ISBN-13: 9781138173668 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 232 str.

John Tosh

Opis

In the space of barely fifteen years, the history of masculinity has become an important dimension of social and cultural history.  Manliness and Masculinities brings together nine key articles John Tosh has written over the past ten years that use the theme of masculinity to bring a fresh perspective to the social history of the nineteenth century.  These pieces document the aspirations of the first contributors to the field, and the development of an agenda of key historical issues that have become central to our conceptualising of gender in history.

This text is for undergraduate courses in nineteenth century history, Imperial history and the history of gender.

Spis treści

PART ONE: AGENDAS.  1. The Making of Manhood and the Uses of History.  2.What Should Historians do with Masculinity?  Reflections on nineteenth century Britain.  PART TWO: CHANGING MASCULINITIES.  3. The Old Adam and the New Man: emerging themes in the history of English masculinities, 1750-1850.  4. Gentlemanly Politeness and Manly Simplicity in Victorian England.  5. Middle class Maculinities in the Era of the Women's Suffrage Movement, 1886-1914.   PART THREE: FAMILY.  6. Authority and Nurture in Middle Class Fatherhood: the case of Early and Mid Victorian England.  7. Methodist Domesticity and Middle Class Masculinity in nineteenth century England.  PART FOUR: EMPIRE.  8. All the Masculine Virtues: English Emigration to the Colonies, 1815-1852.  9. Manliness, Masculinities and the New Imperialism, 1880-1900 

O autorze

John Tosh is Professor of History at Roehampton University. He has been at the forefront of British work on the history of masculinities for the last 15 years. He is author of A Man’s Place: Masculinity and the Middle-Class Home in Victorian England (1999) and co-editor of Manful Assertions: Masculinities in Britainsince 1800 (1991).