Description
| Product ID: | 9781137305602 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | Genders and Sexualities in History |
| Title: | What is Masculinity? |
| Subtitle: | Historical Dynamics from Antiquity to the Contemporary World |
| Authors: | Author: J. Arnold, S. Brady |
| Page Count: | 461 |
| Subjects: | European history, European history, General and world history, Ancient history, History, Social and cultural history, Gender studies, gender groups, History: earliest times to present day, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, Medieval history, Social & cultural history, Gender studies, gender groups |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Across history, the ideas and practices of male identity have varied much between time and place: masculinity proves to be a slippery concept, not available to all men, sometimes even applied to women. This book analyses the dynamics of 'masculinity' as both an ideology and lived experience - how men have tried, and failed, to be 'Real Men'. What is masculinity? Looked at across time - from antiquity to the modern day - the contours of ''manliness'' take on an intriguing complexity. As the various contributors to this volume demonstrate, the ideas and practices of male identity have varied considerably over time and place: masculinity proves to be a slippery concept, one not available to all men, and one sometimes even applied to certain women. By looking at masculinity over time, this ground-breaking book, now published for the first time in paperback, presents a variety of new perspectives on the nature of masculinity, its social and political functions, and the methods by which historians and others might seek to analyse it. Each author provides both a case study of what ''masculinity'' means (or fails to mean) in a specific historical moment, and contributes to a wider collective analysis of the changing historical dynamics to male identity. Overall, the book provides a key methodological landmark in the study of gender history. |
| Imprint Name: | Palgrave Macmillan |
| Publisher Name: | Palgrave Macmillan |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2011-06-14 |
