Nine Centuries of Man: Manhood and Masculinities in Scottish History

ISBN-13: 9781474437837 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 296 str.

Lynn Abrams; Elizabeth L. Ewan

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This interdisciplinary collection explores a diverse range of the multiple and changing forms of masculinities from the late eleventh to the late twentieth century.

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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;