A History of Police and Masculinities, 1700-2010 (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Barrie, David; Broomhall, Susan

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This unique collection brings together leading international scholars to explore how ideologies about masculinities have shaped police culture, policy and institutional organization from the eighteenth century to the present day.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Juli 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136496646
• Artikelnr.: 38269341

Autorenporträt

David G. Barrie is lecturer in British history at The University of Western Australia. His research interests include crime and punishment in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Scotland. He is author of Police in the Age of Improvement: Police Development and the Civic Tradition in Scotland, 1775-1865 (Willan Publishing, 2008), which was awarded 'best first book' in Scottish history by the international committee of the Frank Watson Book Prize. He has published widely on Scottish policing in leading international journals. Susan Broomhall is Winthrop Professor in history at The University of Western Australia. Her research focuses on early modern gender history. Most recently she is editor (with Jaqueline Van Ghent) of Governing Masculinities in the Early Modern Period: Regulating Selves and Others (Ashgate, 2011) and author (with Jennifer Spinks) of Early Modern Women in the Low Countries: Feminising Sources and Interpretations of the Past (Ashgate, 2011).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. The Paternal Government of Men: The Self-Image and Action
of the Paris Police in the Eighteenth Century? 2. 'A Species of Civil
Soldier': Masculinity, Policing and Military in 1780s England 3. Making
Men: Media, Magistrates and the Representation of Masculinity in Scottish
Police Courts, 1800-1835 4. Becoming Policemen in Nineteenth-Century Italy:
Police Gender Culture Through the Lens of Professional Manuals 5. Men on a
Mission: Masculinity, Violence and the Self-Presentation of Policemen in
England c.1870-1914 6. Shedding the Uniform and Acquiring a New Masculine
Image: The Case of the Late Victorian and Edwardian English Police
Detective 7. 'Well-set up men': Respectable Masculinity and Police
Organizational Culture in Melbourne 1853-c.1920 8. Of Tabloids and
Gentlemen: How Depictions of Policing helped Define American Masculinities
at the Turn of the Twentieth Century 9. Quiet and Determined Servants and
Guardians: Creating Ideal English Police Officers, 1900-1945 10. Science
and Surveillance: Masculinity and the New York State Police, 1945-1980 11.
Managerial Masculinity: An Insight into the Twenty-First-Century Police
Leader