Men and masculinities provides an engaging, accessible and provocative introduction to histories of masculinity for all readers interested in contemporary gender politics.
The book offers a critical overview of ongoing historiographical debates and the historical making of men’s lives and identities and ideas of masculinity between the 1890s and the present day. In setting out a new agenda for the field, it makes an ambitious argument for the importance of writing histories which are present-centred and politically engaged. This means that the book engages head-on with ferocious debates about men’s social position and the status of masculinity in contemporary public life.
In establishing a critical genealogy for the proliferation of this crisis talk, it sets out new ways of understanding how men’s lives and ideas of masculinity have changed over time while patriarchy and male power have persisted.
Edited by:
Matt Houlbrook (Professor),
Katie Jones,
Ben Mechen
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 234mm,
Width: 156mm,
Spine: 19mm
Weight: 642g
ISBN: 9781526174697
ISBN 10: 1526174693
Pages: 332
Publication Date: 01 February 2024
Audience:
College/higher education
,
College/higher education
,
Professional and scholarly
,
Further / Higher Education
,
Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Introduction: Histories for the present Matt Houlbrook, Katie Jones, and Ben Mechen Part I: INSTITUTIONS 1: Male breadwinners of ‘doubtful sex’: Trans men and the welfare state, 1954-1970 Adrian Kane-Galbraith 2: Reading colonial masculinity through a marriage in Burma Jonathan Saha 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 Riley Part II: HISTORIES 4: ‘Formal qualifications for full masculine status’? Challenging the fragmentation of the male lifecycle through the First World War pension archives Jessica Meyer 5: Reimagining working-class masculinities in the twentieth century Helen Smith 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 7: Gender, locality, and culture: revisiting masculinities in the Liverpool docklands, 1900-1939 Pat Ayers 8: Struggling ‘heroes’: Everyday masculine encounters in the public library, c. 1890s-1920s Michelle Johansen 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 10: Dirty magazines, clean consciences: Men and pornography in the 1970s Ben Mechen 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 -- .
Matt Houlbrook is a Professor of Cultural History at the University of Birmingham Katie Jones is an Independent Scholar living in Birmingham Ben Mechen is a Researcher at the University of Bristol -- .
