Men and masculinities in modern Britain : : A history for the present / / ed. by Matt Houlbrook, Katie Jones, Ben Mechen.

• MitwirkendeR: Ayers, Pat,; Buxton, Hilary,; Charnock, Hannah,; Delap, Lucy,; Griffin, Ben,; Hall, Richard,; Houlbrook, Matt,; Johansen, Michelle,; Jones, Katie,; Kane-Galbraith, Adrian,; Mechen, Ben,; Meyer, Jessica,; Riley, Charlotte Lydia,; Roper, Michael,; Saha, Jonathan,; Smith, Helen,; Tosh, John,
• HerausgeberIn: Houlbrook, Matt,; Jones, Katie,; Mechen, Ben,
• Place / Publishing House: Manchester : : Manchester University Press, , [2024]; ©2024
• Year of Publication: 2024
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (332 p.)

Men and masculinities 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...

Table of Contents

• Front Matter
• Contents
• List of contributors
• Introduction
• I Institutions
• 1 Male breadwinners of ‘doubtful sex’
• 2 Reading colonial masculinity through a marriage in Burma
• 3 ‘Crutches as weapons’
• Reflection – Male historians explain things to me
• II Histories
• 4 ‘Formal qualifications for full masculine status’? Challenging the fragmentation of the male life cycle through the First World War pension archives
• 5 Reimagining working-class masculinities in the twentieth century
• 6 Perceptions of crisis in the history of masculinity
• Reflection
• III Everyday lives
• 7 Gender, locality, and culture
• 8 Struggling ‘heroes’
• 9 Fathers, sons, and ‘normal’, ‘ordinary’ family life, 1945–1974
• Reflection
• IV Bodies
• 10 Dirty magazines, clean consciences
• 11 ‘It’s more what me and my partner feel comfortable with’
• Reflection
• Conclusion
• Index