Description
Book SynopsisThis book opens up new avenues in gender history by mapping masculinity’s part in making revolution, waging war, building nations, and constructing welfare states. Written in a highly accessible style, targeted at both students, professional historians and the interested general reader.
Table of ContentsList of figures
List of contributors
Acknowledgements
Preface
Part I Masculinities in politics and war: Introductions
1. Masculinity in politics and war in the age of democratic revolutions, 1750–1850 – Stefan Dudink and Karen Hagemann
2. Masculinity in politics and war in the age of nation-states and World Wars, 1850–1950 – John Horne
3. Hegemonic masculinity and the history of gender – John Tosh
Part II Historicising revolutionary masculinity: Constructs and contexts
4. The republican gentleman: The race to rhetorical stability in the new United States – Carroll Smith-Rosenberg
5. Masculinity, effeminacy, time: Conceptual change in the Dutch age of democratic revolutions – Stefan Dudink
6. Republican citizenship and heterosocial desire: Concepts of masculinity in revolutionary France – Joan B. Landes
7. German heroes: The cult of death for the fatherland in nineteenth-century Germany – Karen Hagemann
Part III Gendering the nation: Hegemonic masculinity and its Others
8. ‘Brothers of the Iranian race’: Manhood, nationhood, and modernity in Iran c.1870–1914 – Joanna de Groot
9. Hegemonic masculinity in Afrikaner nationalist mobilisation, 1934–1948 – Jacobus Adriaan du Pisani
10. Temperate heroes: Concepts of masculinity in Second World War Britain – Sonya O. Rose
Part IV Analysing power relations: The politics of masculinity
11. Translating needs into rights: The discursive imperative of the Australian white man, 1901–1930 – Marilyn Lake
12. Measures for masculinity: The American labor movement and welfare state policy during the Great Depression – Alice Kessler-Harris
13. Masculinities, nations, and the new world order: Gendered discourses on peacemaking and nationality in Britain, France and the United States after the First World War – Glenda Sluga
Part V Including the subject: masculinity and subjectivity
14. The political man: The construction of masculinity in German Social Democracy, 1848–1878 – Thomas Welskopp
15. Making workers masculine: The (re)construction of male worker identity in twentieth-century Brazil – Barbara Weinstein
16. Maternal relations: Moral manliness and emotional survival in letters home during the First World War – Michael Roper
