A history of police and masculinities, 1700-2010 / edited by David G. Barrie and Susan Broomhall.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Barrie, David G.

Broomhall, Susan.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Police--History.

Police.

Police--Social aspects.

Masculinity.

Social aspects.

History.

Physical Description:

x, 303 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2012.

Summary:

This unique collection brings together leading international scholars to explore how ideologies about masculinities have shaped police culture, policy and institutional organization from the eighteenth century to the present day.

It addresses an under-researched area of historical inquiry, providing the first in-depth study of how gender ideologies have shaped law enforcement and civic governance under 'old' and 'new' police models, tracing links, continuities and changes between them. The book opens up scholarly understanding of the ways in which policing reflected, sustained, embodied and enforced ideas of masculinities in historic and modern contexts, as well as how conceptions of masculinities were, and continue to be, interpreted through representations of the police in various forms of print and popular culture.

The research covers the UK, Europe, Australia and America and explores police typologies in different international and institutional contexts, using varied approaches, sources and interpretive frameworks drawn from historical and criminological traditions.

This book will be essential reading for academics, students, and those in interested in gender, culture, police and criminal justice history as well as police practitioners. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 The paternal government of men: the self-image and action of the Paris police in the eighteenth century / David Garrioch Garrioch, David 35

2 'A species of civil soldier': masculinity, policing and the military in 1780s England / Matthew McCormack McCormack, Matthew 55

3 Making men: media, magistrates and the representation of masculinity in Scottish police courts, 1800-35 / Susan Broomhall Broomhall, Susan, David G. Barrie Barrie, David G. 72

4 Becoming policemen in nineteenth-century Italy: police gender culture through the lens of professional manuals / Simona Mori Mori, Simona 102

5 Men on a mission: masculinity, violence and the self-presentation of policemen in England, c. 1870-1914 / Francis Dodsworth Dodsworth, Francis 123

6 Shedding the uniform and acquiring a new masculine image: the case of the late-Victorian and Edwardian English police detective / Haia Shpayer-Makov Shpayer-Makov, Haia 141

7 'Well-set-up men': respectable masculinity and police organizational culture in Melbourne 1853-c. 1920 / Dean Wilson Wilson, Dean 163

8 Of tabloids, detectives and gentlemen: how depictions of policing helped define American masculinities at the turn of the twentieth century / Guy Reel Reel, Guy 181

9 Quiet and determined servants and guardians: creating ideal English police officers, 1900-45 / Joanne Klein Klein, Joanne 201

10 Science and surveillance: masculinity and the New York State Police, 1945-80 / Gerda W. Ray Ray, Gerda W. 217

11 Managerial masculinity: an insight into the twenty-first-century police leader / Marisa Silvestri Silvestri, Marisa 235.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [255]-286) and index.

ISBN:

0415696615

9780415696616

9780415671293

0415671299

OCLC:

690089967