Nine Centuries of Man: Manhood and Masculinities in Scottish History

ISBN-13: 9781474403894 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 296 str.

Lynn Abrams;Elizabeth L. Ewan

Opis

Scotland, with its stereotypes of the kilted warrior and the industrial 'hard man' has long been characterized in masculine terms, but there has been little historical exploration of what masculinity actually means for men (and women) in a Scottish context. This interdisciplinary collection explores a diverse range of the multiple and changing forms of masculinities from the late eleventh to the late twentieth century, examining the ways in which Scottish society through the ages defined expectations for men and their behaviour.
How men reacted to those expectations is examined through sources such as documentary materials, medieval seals, romance, poetry, begging letters, police reports and court records, charity records, oral histories and personal correspondence. Focusing upon the wide range of activities and roles undertaken by men - work, fatherhood and play, violence and war, sex and commerce - the book also illustrates the range of masculinities which affected or were internalised by men. Together, they illustrate some of the ways Scotland's gender expectations have changed over the centuries and how more generally masculinities have informed the path of Scottish history.

Spis treści

Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; List of Illustrations; Notes on Contributors; Lynn Abrams and Elizabeth Ewan Introduction: Interrogating Men in Scottish History; Part 1 Models; 1. Sarah Dunnigan ‘Be wise in thy governing’: Managing Emotion and Controlling Masculinity in Early Modern Scottish Poetry; 2. Janay Nugent Reformed Masculinity: Ministers, Fathers, and Male Heads of Households, 1560-1660; 3. Rosalind Carr The Importance and Impossibility of Manhood: Polite and Libertine Masculinities in the Urban Eighteenth Century; 4. Lynn Abrams The Taming of Highland Masculinity: Inter-personal Violence and Shifting Codes of Manhood c.1760-1840; Part 2 Representations; 5. Cynthia Neville Making a Manly Impression: The Image of Kingship on Scottish Royal Seals of the High Middle Ages; 6. Sergi Mainer Contrasting Kingly and Knightly Masculinities in Barbour’s Bruce; 7. Katie Barclay Negotiating Independence: Manliness and Begging Letters in Late Eighteenth- and Early Nineteenth-century Scotland; 8. Lynn Abrams A Wartime Family Romance: Narratives of Masculinity and Intimacy during World War Two; Part 3 Lived Experiences; 9. Harriet Cornell Social Control and Masculinity in Early Modern Scotland: Expectations and Behaviour in a Lowland Parish; 10. Tawny Paul A ‘polite and commercial people’? Masculinity and Economic Violence in Scotland, 1700-1760; 11. Tanya Cheadle Music Hall, ‘Mashers’ and the ‘Unco Guid’: Competing Masculinities in Victorian Glasgow; 12. Jeff Meek ‘That Class of Men': Effeminacy, Sodomy and Failed Masculinities in Inter- and Post-War Scotland; 13. Angela Bartie and Alistair Fraser Speaking to the ‘Hard Men’: Masculinities, Violence and Youth Gangs in Glasgow, c. 1965-75; Index;