Gender studies: men and boys Books

Men and masculinities are still inadequately incorporated into the historiography of early modern witch trials, despite the fact that 20-25% of all accused 'witches' were male. This book redresses this imbalance by making men the focus of the gender...

Contemporary Hollywood Masculinities traces changing concepts of masculinity in popular Hollywood blockbusters from 1992 to 2008 - the Clinton and Bush eras - against a backdrop of contemporary political events, social developments, and popular American...

The essays in this volume take up colonial knowledge as an analytical category in South Asian history. They contribute to longstanding debates around agency and power, as well as newer issues-like the coherence of knowledge systems, architecture and...

This book is part of a new generation of historical research that challenges prevailing arguments for the medical and legal construction of male homosexual identities in late nineteenth and early twentieth-century Britain. British society could not...

Spanning a broad trajectory, from the New Gaelic Man of post-independence Ireland to the slick urban gangsters of contemporary productions, this study traces a significant shift from idealistic images of Irish manhood to a much more diverse and...

In Masculine Style: The American West and Literary Modernism, Daniel Worden argues for the importance of "cowboy masculinity," as dramatized in late nineteenth-century dime novels, to the writings of Willa Cather, Ernest Hemingway, Nat Love, Theodore...

This collection provides a unique and comprehensive historical overview of how masculinity has been constructed within national literature. Through a sustained focus on the nexus between gender, sexuality, language, and literature for the construction of...

How are men reacting to contemporary social change? How are they responding to changes in women's demands and women's identities? And how are national and transnational politics and policies assisting, or not, in these key challenges? Using a broad...

This book explores the links between masculinity and politics by bringing together new case studies focusing upon the history of Britain between the eighteenth and the twentieth centuries.

French Masculinities makes a valuable contribution to gender studies by presenting, for the first time, a comprehensive and critical overview of ideas of how virilité has been imagined in France from the Eighteenth century to the present. Incorporating...

This volume seeks to redress the balance of masculinity by examining the grammars of gender as these are acted out in the dialogues of Higher Education. Gender roles, whether of dominance or of marginality, are seen here as being negotiated...