Nine centuries of man : manhood and masculinities in Scottish history / edited by Lynn Abrams and Elizabeth Ewan.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Abrams, Lynn, editor.

Ewan, Elizabeth, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Men--Scotland--History.

Men.

Masculinity--Scotland--History.

Masculinity.

History.

Scotland.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xii, 284 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2017]

Contents:

Part I Models

1 'Be Wise in Thy Governing': Managing Emotion and Controlling Masculinity in Early Modern Scottish Poetry / Sarah Dunnigan Dunnigan, Sarah 21

2 Reformed Masculinity: Ministers, Fathers and Male Heads of Households, 1560-1660 / Janay Nugent Nugent, Janay 39

3 The Importance and Impossibility of Manhood: Polite and Libertine Masculinities in the Urban Eighteenth Century / Rosalind Carr Carr, Rosalind 58

4 The Taming of Highland Masculinity: Interpersonal Violence and Shifting Codes of Manhood, c. 1760-1840 / Lynn Abrams Abrams, Lynn 80

Part II Representations

5 Making a Manly Impression: The Image of Kingship on Scottish Royal Seals of the High Middle Ages / Cynthia J. Neville Neville, Cynthia J. 101

6 Contrasting Kingly and Knightly Masculinities in Barbour's Bruce / Sergi Mainer Mainer, Sergi 122

7 Negotiating Independence: Manliness and Begging Letters in Late Eighteenth- and Early Nineteenth-Century Scotland / Katie Barclay Barclay, Katie 142

8 A Wartime Family Romance: Narratives of Masculinity and Intimacy during World War Two / Lynn Abrams Abrams, Lynn 160

Part III Lived Experiences

9 Social Control and Masculinity in Early Modern Scotland: Expectations and Behaviour in a Lowland Parish / Harriet Cornell Cornell, Harriet 183

10 A 'Polite and Commercial People'? Masculinity and Economic Violence in Scotland, 1700-60 / Tawny Paul Paul, Tawny 203

11 Music Hall, 'Mashers' and the 'Unco Guid': Competing Masculinities in Victorian Glasgow / Tanya Cheadle Cheadle, Tanya 223

12 'That Class of Men': Effeminacy, Sodomy and Failed Masculinities in Inter- and Post-War Scotland / Jeffrey Meek Meek, Jeffrey 242

13 Speaking to the 'Hard Men': Masculinities, Violence and Youth Gangs in Glasgow, c. 1965-75 / Angela Bartie Bartie, Angela, Alistair Fraser Fraser, Alistair 258.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781474403894

1474403891

OCLC:

972918452