Michael Roper, John Tosh

Manful Assertions

Masculinities in Britain Since 1800

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This volume combines current discussions in sexual politics with historical analysis to demonstrate that, far from being natural and monolithic, masculinity is an historical and cultural construct, with varied, competing and above all changing forms.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Juli 1991
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 272g
• ISBN-13: 9780415053235
• ISBN-10: 0415053234
• Artikelnr.: 69895026

Autorenporträt

Michael Roper recently completed his Ph.D. at Essex University on masculinity and the evolution of British management since 1945. He has published in Life Stories and the Journal of Australian Studies, and he is a Research Fellow at the London Business School. John Tosh teaches history at the Polytechnic of North London. In 1987-8 he was Visiting Associate Professor at the University of California, Davis.

Inhaltsangabe

1 INTRODUCTION
Historians and the politics of masculinity 2 STRENUOUS IDLENESS Thomas Carlyle and the man of letters as hero 3 DOMESTICITY AND MANLINESS IN THE VICTORIAN MIDDLE CLASS The family of Edward White Benson 4 MASCULINITY AND THE 'REPRESENTATIVE ARTISAN' IN BRITAIN
1850-80 5 'I LIVE BUT NOT YET I FOR CHRIST LIVETH IN ME' Men and masculinity in the Salvation Army
1865-90
6 THE BLOND BEDOUIN Lawrence of Arabia
imperial adventure and the imagining of English-British masculinity 7 KNOWING YOUR PLACE The tensions of manliness in boys' story papers
1918-8 MUMMY
MATRON AND THE MAIDS Feminine presence and absence in male institutions
1934-63
9 YESTERDAY'S MODEL Product fetishism and the British company man
1945-85.