What is Masculinity?: Historical Dynamics from Antiquity to the Contemporary World

Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Introduction....Pages 1-14
Front Matter....Pages 15-15
The History of Masculinity: An Outdated Concept?....Pages 17-34
Can the Hegemon Speak? Reading Masculinity through Anthropology....Pages 35-56
The Whig Interpretation of Masculinity? Honour and Sexuality in Late Medieval Manhood....Pages 57-75
Masculinity without Conflict: Noblemen in Eighth- and Ninth-Century Francia....Pages 76-93
Front Matter....Pages 95-95
Masculinities in Early Hellenistic Athens....Pages 97-113
Masculinity As a World Historical Category of Analysis....Pages 114-138
Hegemonic Masculinities? Assessing Change and Processes of Change in Elite Masculinity, 1700–1900....Pages 139-166
Masculinity and Fatherhood in England c. 1760–1830....Pages 167-186
Front Matter....Pages 187-187
Athenian Pederasty and the Construction of Masculinity....Pages 189-225
An Orchard, a Love Letter and Three Bastards: The Formation of Adult Male Identity in a Fifteenth-Century Family....Pages 226-244
‘To Make a Man Without Reason’: Examining Manhood and Manliness in Early Modern England....Pages 245-262
‘Boys, Semi-Men and Bearded Scholars’: Maturity and Manliness in Early Nineteenth-Century Oxford....Pages 263-282
Front Matter....Pages 283-283
St Francis of Assisi and the Making of Settlement Masculinity, 1883–1914....Pages 285-302
Homes Fit for Homos: Joe Orton, Masculinity and the Domesticated Queer....Pages 303-322
Three Faces of Fatherhood As a Masculine Category: Tyrants, Teachers, and Workaholics As ‘Responsible Family Men’ during Canada’s Baby Boom....Pages 323-346
Front Matter....Pages 347-347
Cow Boys, Cattle Men and Competing Masculinities on the Texas Frontier....Pages 349-369
Valorising Samurai Masculinity through Biblical Language: Christianity, Oscar Wilde and Natsume Soseki’s Novel Kokoro....Pages 370-388
‘Proper Government and Discipline’: Family Religion and Masculine Authority in Nineteenth-Century Canada....Pages 389-412
Punters and Their Prostitutes: British Soldiers, Masculinity and Maisons Tolérées in the First World War....Pages 413-430
Front Matter....Pages 431-431
Masculinities, Histories and Memories....Pages 433-452
Back Matter....Pages 453-461