{"product_id":"public-men-masculinity-and-politics-in-modern-britain-9780230007635","title":"Public Men Masculinity and Politics in Modern Britain","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePublic Men offers an introduction to an exciting new field: the history of masculinities in the political domain. By building upon new work on gender and political culture, these new case studies explore the gendering of the political domain and the masculinities of the men who have historically dominated it.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e'A vibrant collection revealing masculinity to be a vital and volatile variable in the formation of political identities and the public sphere. Matthew McCormack's commanding overview of the historiography of gender and politics tracks the vagaries of the 'Public Man' from the rough-and-ready world of Georgian elections to the celebrity culture of Blair's Britannia, pointing to important questions of chronology and interpretation for anyone interested in political culture and the history of masculinity.' - Helen Rogers, Liverpool John Moores University\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction; M.McCormack Men, 'the Public' and Political History; M.McCormack Masculinity as Governance: Police, Public Service and the Embodiment of Authority, c. 1700-1850; F.Dodsworth The Father Governor: the British Administration of Aboriginal People in Port Jackson, 1788-92; S.Konishi 'A Gallant Nation': Chivalric Masculinity and Irish Nationalism in the 1790s; C.Kennedy Politics, Portraiture and Power: Reassessing the Public Image of William Ewart Gladstone; R.Clayton Windscheffel W. L. Jackson, Exemplary Manliness and Late-Victorian Popular Conservatism; M.Roberts 'Quit Ye Like Men': Platform Manliness and Electioneering, 1895-1939; K.Good The Bermondsey By-Election and Leftist Attitudes to Homosexuality; L.Robinson Conclusion: Chronologies in the History of British Political Masculinities, c. 1700-2000; M.McCormack \u0026amp; M.Roberts","brand":"Palgrave MacMillan UK","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51767105126743,"sku":"9780230007635","price":44.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780230007635.jpg?v=1758712359","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/public-men-masculinity-and-politics-in-modern-britain-9780230007635","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}