What Is Masculinity?: Historical Dynamics from Antiquity to the Contemporary World - Hardcover

by J. Arnold (Editor), S. Brady (Editor)

Across history, the ideas and practices of male identity have varied much between time and place: masculinity proves to be a slippery concept, not available to all men, sometimes even applied to women. This book analyses the dynamics of 'masculinity' as both an ideology and lived experience - how men have tried, and failed, to be 'Real Men'.

Author Biography

JOHN H. ARNOLD Professor of Medieval History, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK JOANNE BAILEY Senior Lecturer in History, Oxford Brookes University, UK HENRIK BERG Lecturer in Gender Studies, Uppsala University, Sweden SEAN BRADY Lecturer in Modern British and Irish History at Birkbeck College, University of London, UK NANCY CHRISTIE McGill University, Montreal, Canada MATT COOK Senior Lecturer in History and Gender Studies, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK HEATHER ELLIS Lecturer and Researcher in British History, Centre for British Studies, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany CHRISTOPHER FLETCHER Chargé de Recherche, the Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale, University of Paris I, France HENRY FRENCH Professor of Social History, University of Exeter, UK THOMAS K. HUBBARD Professor of Classics, University of Texas, Austin, USA DIEDERIK F. JANSSEN Independent Scholar, the Netherlands JENNIFER JORDAN Postdoctoral Research Fellow, the University of Plymouth, UK CLARE MAKEPEACE Doctoral Candidate in Modern British History, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK LUCINDA MATTHEWS-JONES Lecturer in Modern British History, Queen's University, Belfast, UK KASUMI MIYAZAKI Professor of Comparative Literature and History, Wako University, Japan JACQUELINE M. MOORE Professor of History, Austin College in Sherman, Texas, USA RACHEL E. MOSS Chargé de Recherche, the Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale, University ofParis I, France MARK ROTHERY Postdoctoral Research Assistant, Northampton University, UK ROBERT RUTHERDALE Department of History and Philosophy, Algoma University in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada VICTOR JELENIEWSKI SEIDLER Professor of Social Theory, Department of Sociology, Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK RACHEL STONE Departmental Library Cataloguer, Department of Coins and Medals, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK JOHN TOSH Professor of History, Roehampton University, London, UK SIMON YARROW Lecturer in Medieval History, School of History and Cultures, University of Birmingham, UK