{"product_id":"men-and-masculinities-in-modern-britain-a-history-for-the-present-9781526174697","title":"Men and Masculinities in Modern Britain: A","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMen and masculinities\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Histories for the present\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMatt Houlbrook, Katie Jones, and Ben Mechen \u003c\/i\u003e                   \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart I: INSTITUTIONS\u003cbr\u003e1: Male breadwinners of ‘doubtful sex’: Trans men and the welfare state, 1954-1970\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAdrian Kane-Galbraith\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e2: Reading colonial masculinity through a marriage in Burma\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJonathan Saha\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e3: ‘Crutches as weapons’: Reading Blackness and the disabled soldier body in the First World War\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eHilary Buxton\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReflection: Male historians explain things to me: Masculinity, expertise, and the academy\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eCharlotte Riley\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart II: HISTORIES\u003cbr\u003e4: ‘Formal qualifications for full masculine status’? Challenging the fragmentation of the male lifecycle through the First World War pension archives\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJessica Meyer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e5: Reimagining working-class masculinities in the twentieth century \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eHelen Smith\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e6: Perceptions of crisis in the history of masculinity: Power and change in modern Britain\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBen Griffin\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReflection: Masculinities and history for the present\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJohn Tosh\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart III: EVERYDAY LIVES\u003cbr\u003e7: Gender, locality, and culture: revisiting masculinities in the Liverpool docklands, 1900-1939\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePat Ayers\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e8: Struggling ‘heroes’: Everyday masculine encounters in the public library, c. 1890s-1920s\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMichelle Johansen\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e9: Fathers, sons, and ‘normal’, ‘ordinary’ family life, 1945-1974\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eRichard Hall\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReflection: Doing gender history and the history of masculinity\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMichael Roper\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart IV: BODIES\u003cbr\u003e10\u003ci\u003e: \u003c\/i\u003eDirty magazines, clean consciences: Men and pornography in the 1970s\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBen Mechen\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e11\u003ci\u003e: \u003c\/i\u003e‘It’s more what me and my partner feel comfortable with’: Gay masculinities, safer sex, and Project Sigma, 1987-1996\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKatie Jones\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReflection: Writing the history of male sexuality in the wake of Operation Yewtree and #MeToo\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eHannah Charnock\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eConclusion: Histories, historians, and the politics of masculinity\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLucy Delap and John Tosh, in conversation\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Manchester University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51041044201815,"sku":"9781526174697","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781526174697.jpg?v=1750948722","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/men-and-masculinities-in-modern-britain-a-history-for-the-present-9781526174697","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}