Public Men

Masculinity and Politics in Modern Britain
2007. Auflage 2007
ISBN: 978-0-230-00763-5
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 208 Seiten, Format (B × H): 147 mm x 221 mm, Gewicht: 376 g

Public Men offers an introduction to an exciting new field: the history of masculinities in the political domain. By building upon new work on gender and political culture, these new case studies explore the gendering of the political domain and the masculinities of the men who have historically dominated it.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kennedy, C.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction; M.McCormack Men, 'the Public' and Political History; M.McCormack Masculinity as Governance: Police, Public Service and the Embodiment of Authority, c. 1700-1850; F.Dodsworth The Father Governor: the British Administration of Aboriginal People in Port Jackson, 1788-92; S.Konishi 'A Gallant Nation': Chivalric Masculinity and Irish Nationalism in the 1790s; C.Kennedy Politics, Portraiture and Power: Reassessing the Public Image of William Ewart Gladstone; R.Clayton Windscheffel W. L. Jackson, Exemplary Manliness and Late-Victorian Popular Conservatism; M.Roberts 'Quit Ye Like Men': Platform Manliness and Electioneering, 1895-1939; K.Good The Bermondsey By-Election and Leftist Attitudes to Homosexuality; L.Robinson Conclusion: Chronologies in the History of British Political Masculinities, c. 1700-2000; M.McCormack & M.Roberts

Über Autor(innen)

FRANCIS DODSWORTH Research Fellow in the ESRC Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change, The Open University, UK
KIT GOOD PhD graduate and formerly Research Associate, University of Liverpool, UK
CATRIONA KENNEDY Research Fellow at the Centre for Eighteenth-Century Studies, University of York, UK
SHINO KONISHI Lecturer, Koori Centre, University of Sydney, Australia
MATTHEW MCCORMACK Senior Lecturer in History, University of Northampton, UK
MATTHEW ROBERTS Research Fellow in History, Sheffield Hallam University, UK
LUCY ROBINSON Lecturer in History at the University of Sussex, UK
RUTH CLAYTON WINDSCHEFFEL Julia Mann Junior Research Fellow in History, St Hilda's College, Oxford, UK