Men and Masculinities in Modern Britain

A History for the Present

Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

Av Matt Houlbrook, Katie Jones, Ben Mechen, Matt (Professor) Houlbrook

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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.An electronic edition of this book is freely available under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND) licence.

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Utgivningsdatum2024-01-16
Mått156 x 234 x 19 mm
Vikt642 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor332
FörlagManchester University Press
ISBN9781526174697

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Introduction: Histories for the presentMatt Houlbrook, Katie Jones, and Ben Mechen Part I: INSTITUTIONS1: Male breadwinners of ‘doubtful sex’: Trans men and the welfare state, 1954-1970Adrian Kane-Galbraith2: Reading colonial masculinity through a marriage in BurmaJonathan Saha3: ‘Crutches as weapons’: Reading Blackness and the disabled soldier body in the First World WarHilary BuxtonReflection: Male historians explain things to me: Masculinity, expertise, and the academyCharlotte RileyPart II: HISTORIES4: ‘Formal qualifications for full masculine status’? Challenging the fragmentation of the male lifecycle through the First World War pension archivesJessica Meyer5: Reimagining working-class masculinities in the twentieth century Helen Smith6: Perceptions of crisis in the history of masculinity: Power and change in modern BritainBen GriffinReflection: Masculinities and history for the presentJohn ToshPart III: EVERYDAY LIVES7: Gender, locality, and culture: revisiting masculinities in the Liverpool docklands, 1900-1939Pat Ayers8: Struggling ‘heroes’: Everyday masculine encounters in the public library, c. 1890s-1920sMichelle Johansen9: Fathers, sons, and ‘normal’, ‘ordinary’ family life, 1945-1974Richard HallReflection: Doing gender history and the history of masculinityMichael RoperPart IV: BODIES10: Dirty magazines, clean consciences: Men and pornography in the 1970sBen Mechen11: ‘It’s more what me and my partner feel comfortable with’: Gay masculinities, safer sex, and Project Sigma, 1987-1996Katie JonesReflection: Writing the history of male sexuality in the wake of Operation Yewtree and #MeTooHannah CharnockConclusion: Histories, historians, and the politics of masculinityLucy Delap and John Tosh, in conversation