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Men and masculinities in modern Britain : a history for the present / edited by Matt Houlbrook, Katie Jones, and Ben Mechen.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Men--Great Britain--History.
- Men.
- Masculinity--Great Britain--History.
- Masculinity.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (viii, 323 pages) : digital file(s).
- Place of Publication:
- Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press, 2023.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- System Details:
- data file
- Biography/History:
- Matt Houlbrook is a Professor of Cultural History at the University of Birmingham
- Katie Jones is an Independent Scholar living in Birmingham
- Ben Mechen is a Researcher at the University of Bristol
- Summary:
- Men and masculinities provides an engaging, accessible and provocative introduction to histories of masculinity for all readers interested in contemporary gender politics. The book offers a critical overview of ongoing historiographical debates and the historical making of men’s lives and identities and ideas of masculinity between the 1890s and the present day. In setting out a new agenda for the field, it makes an ambitious argument for the importance of writing histories which are present-centred and politically engaged. This means that the book engages head-on with ferocious debates about men’s social position and the status of masculinity in contemporary public life. In establishing a critical genealogy for the proliferation of this crisis talk, it sets out new ways of understanding how men’s lives and ideas of masculinity have changed over time while patriarchy and male power have persisted.
- Contents:
- Front Matter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Introduction
- I Institutions
- 1 Male breadwinners of ‘doubtful sex’
- 2 Reading colonial masculinity through a marriage in Burma
- 3 ‘Crutches as weapons’
- Reflection – Male historians explain things to me
- II Histories
- 4 ‘Formal qualifications for full masculine status’? Challenging the fragmentation of the male life cycle through the First World War pension archives
- 5 Reimagining working-class masculinities in the twentieth century
- 6 Perceptions of crisis in the history of masculinity
- Reflection
- III Everyday lives
- 7 Gender, locality, and culture
- 8 Struggling ‘heroes’
- 9 Fathers, sons, and ‘normal’, ‘ordinary’ family life, 1945–1974
- IV Bodies
- 10 Dirty magazines, clean consciences
- 11 ‘It’s more what me and my partner feel comfortable with’
- Conclusion
- Index
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
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- ISBN:
- 9781526174703
- 1526174707
- 9781526174680
- 1526174685
- Access Restriction:
- Unrestricted online access
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