Public Men: Masculinity and Politics in Modern Britain / Edition 1

by C. Kennedy, Matthew McCormack

Overview

Public 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780230007635
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	01/09/2007
Edition description:	2007
Pages:	208
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.02(d)

About the Author

FRANCIS DODSWORTH Research Fellow in the ESRC Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change, The Open University, UK
KIT GOOD PhD graduate and formerly Research Associate, University of Liverpool, UK
CATRIONA KENNEDY Research Fellow at the Centre for Eighteenth-Century Studies, University of York, UK
SHINO KONISHI Lecturer, Koori Centre, University of Sydney, Australia
MATTHEW MCCORMACK Senior Lecturer in History, University of Northampton, UK
MATTHEW ROBERTS Research Fellow in History, Sheffield Hallam University, UK
LUCY ROBINSON Lecturer in History at the University of Sussex, UK
RUTH CLAYTON WINDSCHEFFEL Julia Mann Junior Research Fellow in History, St Hilda's College, Oxford, UK

Table of Contents

Introduction; 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 & M.Roberts

Editorial Reviews

'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

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