Nine Centuries of Man

Lynn Abrams is Professor of Modern History and Head of the School of Humanities at the University of Glasgow. She has published widely on Scottish gender history and was convenor of Women’s History Scotland 2008-13. Her many publications include Oral History Theory (2010), Myth and Materiality in a Woman’s World: Shetland 1800-2000 (2005) and Gender in Scottish History Since 1700 (2006). Elizabeth Ewan is a Professor of Scottish Studies and History at the University of Guelph.

• AcknowledgementsList of IllustrationsNotes on ContributorsIntroduction: Interrogating Men in Scottish History, Lynn Abrams and Elizabeth Ewan Part 1 Models1. ‘Be wise in thy governing’: Managing Emotion and Controlling Masculinity in Early Modern Scottish Poetry, Sarah Dunnigan2. Reformed Masculinity: Ministers, Fathers, and Male Heads of Households, 1560-1660, Janay Nugent 3. The Importance and Impossibility of Manhood: Polite and Libertine Masculinities in the Urban Eighteenth Century, Rosalind Carr 4. The Taming of Highland Masculinity: Inter-personal Violence and Shifting Codes of Manhood c.1760-1840, Lynn Abrams Part 2 Representations5. Making a Manly Impression: The Image of Kingship on Scottish Royal Seals of the High Middle Ages, Cynthia Neville6. Contrasting Kingly and Knightly Masculinities in Barbour’s Bruce, Sergi Mainer 7. Negotiating Independence: Manliness and Begging Letters in Late Eighteenth- and Early Nineteenth-century Scotland, Katie Barclay 8. A Wartime Family Romance: Narratives of Masculinity and Intimacy during World War Two, Lynn Abrams Part 3 Lived Experiences9. Social Control and Masculinity in Early Modern Scotland: Expectations and Behaviour in a Lowland Parish, Harriet Cornell 10. A ‘polite and commercial people’? Masculinity and Economic Violence in Scotland, 1700-1760, Tawny Paul 11. Music Hall, ‘Mashers’ and the ‘Unco Guid’: Competing Masculinities in Victorian Glasgow, Tanya Cheadle 12. ‘That Class of Men': Effeminacy, Sodomy and Failed Masculinities in Inter- and Post-War Scotland, Jeff Meek 13. Speaking to the ‘Hard Men’: Masculinities, Violence and Youth Gangs in Glasgow, c. 1965-75, Angela Bartie and Alistair Fraser Index