Negotiating Masculinities and Modernity in the Maritime World, 1815–1940: A Sailor’s Progress?

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Karen Downing Johnathan Thayer

Negotiating Masculinities and Modernity in the Maritime World, 1815–1940

A Sailor’s Progress?

Karen Downing, Johnathan Thayer, Joanne Begiato

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Springer Nature Switzerland AG
18 January 2023

History: earliest times to present day; Social & cultural history; Gender studies, gender groups

Series: Global Studies in Social and Cultural Maritime History

This book explores ideas of masculinity in the maritime world in the nineteenth and the first half of the twentieth century. During this time commerce, politics and technology supported male privilege, while simultaneously creating the polite, consumerist and sedentary lifestyles that were perceived as damaging the minds and bodies of men. This volume explores this paradox through the figure of the sailor, a working-class man whose representation fulfilled numerous political and social ends in this period. It begins with the enduring image of romantic, heroic veterans of the Napeolonic wars, takes the reader through the challenges to masculinities created by encounters with other races and ethnicities, and with technological change, shifting geopolitical and cultural contexts, and ends with the fragile portrayal of masculinity in the imagined Nelson. In doing so, this edited collection shows that maritime masculinities (ideals, representations and the seamen themselves) were highly visible and volatile sites for negotiating the tensions of masculinities with civilisation, race, technology, patriotism, citizenship, and respectability during the long nineteenth century.

Edited by: Karen Downing, Johnathan Thayer, Joanne Begiato
Imprint: Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Country of Publication: Switzerland
Edition: 1st ed. 2021
Dimensions: Height: 210mm, Width: 148mm,
Weight: 430g
ISBN: 9783030779481
ISBN 10: 3030779483
Series: Global Studies in Social and Cultural Maritime History
Pages: 313
Publication Date: 18 January 2023
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Karen Downing is a researcher and casual lecturer at the Australian National University. Her research interests are in the history of masculinities, emotions, and culture. Johnathan Thayer is Assistant Professor at the Graduate School of Library and Information Studies, Queens College, City University of New York. He teaches and conducts research in archival studies, public history, and the intersections of urban and maritime history in U.S. ports. Joanne Begiato is Professor of History at Oxford Brookes University. She specialises in the history of masculinities, emotions, material culture, family, and marriage.