Men and masculinities in modern Britain : a history for the present / edited by Matt Houlbrook, Katie Jones, and Ben Mechen.
2023
HQ1090.7.G7
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Title
Men and masculinities in modern Britain : a history for the present / edited by Matt Houlbrook, Katie Jones, and Ben Mechen.
ISBN
9781526174703 (electronic bk.)
1526174707 (electronic bk.)
1526174685
9781526174680 (electronic bk.)
1526174693
9781526174697
1526174707 (electronic bk.)
1526174685
9781526174680 (electronic bk.)
1526174693
9781526174697
Published
Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2023.
Copyright
©2023.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource
Call Number
HQ1090.7.G7
System Control No.
(OCoLC)1417392725
Summary
This book offers a striking and pointed reflection on what histories of masculinity in modern Britain have been and where they might go next. Addressing the constant contemporary talk of crisis around men's lives, Men and Masculinities argues powerfully that we need histories of masculinity which are present-centred and politically engaged. In so doing, it sets out a new agenda for the field. Ranging over the past 130 years, a series of engaging and original essays trace how men, like masculinity, were made. In exploring that process, contributors demonstrate the radically different ways in which men made sense of the world and their place in it. The book provides compelling evidence of how individual life stories can transform how we think about the time- and place-specific formation of men's experiences and ideas of masculinity. Through vivid case studies that include trans men's encounters with the welfare state, the experience of wounded Jamaican servicemen, and the social world of the public librarian, the volume interweaves histories of masculinity with wider histories of society, culture, economy, and politics. It is on that basis that the work shows how thinking critically about histories of masculinity also provides new ways of understanding the making and remaking of modern Britain. Men and Masculinities both provides a critical genealogy for contemporary gender politics and the persistence of patriarchy and male power and establishes new ways of understanding how men's lives and ideas of masculinity have (and have not) changed in modern Britain. -- Provided by publisher.
Formatted Contents Note
Introduction : Histories for the present / Matt Houlbrook, Katie Jones, and Ben Mechen
Part I : Institutions
Chapter 1 : Male breadwinners of 'doubtful sex' : Trans men and the welfare state, 1954-1970 / Adrian Kane-Galbraith
Chapter 2 : Reading colonial masculinity through a marriage in Burma / Jonathan Saha
Chapter 3 : 'Crutches as weapons' : Reading Blackness and the disabled soldier body in the First World War / Hilary Buxton
Reflection : Male historians explain things to me : Masculinity, expertise, and the academy / Charlotte Lydia Riley
Part II : Histories
Chapter 4 : 'Formal qualifications for full masculine status'? Challenging the fragmentation of the male life cycle through the First World War pension archives / Jessica Meyer
Chapter 5 : Reimagining working-class masculinities in the twentieth century / Helen Smith
Chapter 6 : Perceptions of crisis in the history of masculinity : Power and change in modern Britain / Ben Griffin
Reflection : Masculinities and history for the present / John Tosh
Part III : Everyday lives
Chapter 7 : Gender, locality, and culture : Revisiting masculinities in the Liverpool docklands, 1900-1939 / Pat Ayers
Chapter 8 : Struggling 'heroes' : Everyday masculine encounters in the public library, 1890s-1920s / Michelle Johansen
Chapter 9 : Fathers, sons, and 'normal', 'ordinary' family life, 1945-1974 / Richard Hall
Reflection : Doing gender history and the history of masculinity / Michael Roper
Part IV : Bodies
Chapter 10 Dirty magazines, clean consciences : Men and pornography in the 1970s / Ben Mechen
Chapter 11 : 'It's more what me and my partner feel comfortable with' : Gay masculinities, safer sex, and Project SIGMA, 1987-1996 / Katie Jones
Reflection : Writing the history of male sexuality in the wake of Operation Yewtree and #MeToo / Hannah Charnock
Conclusion : Histories, historians, and the politics of masculinity / Lucy Delap and John Tosh, in conversation
Part I : Institutions
Chapter 1 : Male breadwinners of 'doubtful sex' : Trans men and the welfare state, 1954-1970 / Adrian Kane-Galbraith
Chapter 2 : Reading colonial masculinity through a marriage in Burma / Jonathan Saha
Chapter 3 : 'Crutches as weapons' : Reading Blackness and the disabled soldier body in the First World War / Hilary Buxton
Reflection : Male historians explain things to me : Masculinity, expertise, and the academy / Charlotte Lydia Riley
Part II : Histories
Chapter 4 : 'Formal qualifications for full masculine status'? Challenging the fragmentation of the male life cycle through the First World War pension archives / Jessica Meyer
Chapter 5 : Reimagining working-class masculinities in the twentieth century / Helen Smith
Chapter 6 : Perceptions of crisis in the history of masculinity : Power and change in modern Britain / Ben Griffin
Reflection : Masculinities and history for the present / John Tosh
Part III : Everyday lives
Chapter 7 : Gender, locality, and culture : Revisiting masculinities in the Liverpool docklands, 1900-1939 / Pat Ayers
Chapter 8 : Struggling 'heroes' : Everyday masculine encounters in the public library, 1890s-1920s / Michelle Johansen
Chapter 9 : Fathers, sons, and 'normal', 'ordinary' family life, 1945-1974 / Richard Hall
Reflection : Doing gender history and the history of masculinity / Michael Roper
Part IV : Bodies
Chapter 10 Dirty magazines, clean consciences : Men and pornography in the 1970s / Ben Mechen
Chapter 11 : 'It's more what me and my partner feel comfortable with' : Gay masculinities, safer sex, and Project SIGMA, 1987-1996 / Katie Jones
Reflection : Writing the history of male sexuality in the wake of Operation Yewtree and #MeToo / Hannah Charnock
Conclusion : Histories, historians, and the politics of masculinity / Lucy Delap and John Tosh, in conversation
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