Public Men

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

• 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

'A vibrant collection revealing masculinity to be a vital and volatile variable in the formation of political identities and the public sphere. Matthew McCormack's commanding overview of the historiography of gender and politics tracks the vagaries of the 'Public Man' from the rough-and-ready world of Georgian elections to the celebrity culture of Blair's Britannia, pointing to important questions of chronology and interpretation for anyone interested in political culture and the history of masculinity.' - Helen Rogers, Liverpool John Moores University