Governing Masculinities In The Early Modern Period

Author : Jacqueline Van Gent
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317125655

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Governing Masculinities in the Early Modern Period by Jacqueline Van Gent Pdf

Documenting lived experiences of men in charge of others, this collection creates a social and cultural history of early modern governing masculinities. It examines the tensions between normative discourses and lived experiences and their manifestations in a range of different sources; and explores the insecurities, anxieties and instability of masculine governance and the ways in which these were expressed (or controlled) in emotional states, language or performance. Focussing on moments of exercising power, the collection seeks to understand the methods, strategies, discourses or resources that men were able (or not) to employ in order to have this power. In order to elucidate the mechanisms of male governance the essays explore the following questions: how was male governance demonstrated and enacted through men's (and women's) bodies? What roles did women play in sustaining, supporting or undermining governing masculinities? And what are the relationship of specific spaces such as household or urban environments to notions and practice of governance? Finally, the collection emphasises the power of sources to articulate the ideas of governance held by particular social groups and to obscure those of others. Through a rich and wide range of case studies, the collection explores what distinctions can be seen in ideas of authoritative masculine behaviour across Protestant and Catholic cultures, British and Continental models, from the late medieval to the end of the eighteenth century, and between urban and national expressions of authority.

Author : Kathleen Perry Long
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2002-02-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780271090979

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High Anxiety by Kathleen Perry Long Pdf

This collection explores the evolution of notions about masculinity during the intense crisis of Renaissance and early modern France. Authors of the period reflect the anxieties about masculinity that became more pronounced against the backdrop of major events and innovations of the period: the religious conflict in France, the repeated questioning of religious and royal authority, the revival of Greek skepticism, the discovery of the New World, and the rise of clinical medicine. These events in turn fueled growing doubt concerning the fixed and hierarchical nature of gender distinction, a distinction upon which many felt French culture was dependent for its very survival.

Author : Andrew William Barnes
Publisher : Associated University Presse
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0838757189

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Post-closet Masculinities in Early Modern England by Andrew William Barnes Pdf

"Post-Closet Masculinities in Early Modern England argues for a theory of male subjectivity that subordinates questions of desire beneath the historical imperatives that inform those desires. Employing a post-closet identity theory, this book argues that writers like John Donne, William Shakespeare, and George Herbert created an ideology of masculinity in conjunction with and in response to the great epistemological upheavals in early modern England. Donne, Shakespeare, and Herbert helped to create a masculinity that embodies an ironic subject position that is constantly shifting between men's desires for women and men's simultaneous rejection of women's bodies, and the inevitable encounter with the figure of the sodomite that their rejection invites."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : J. Feather,C. Thomas
Publisher : Springer
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137344755

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Violent Masculinities by J. Feather,C. Thomas Pdf

During the early modern period in England, social expectations for men came under extreme pressure - the armed knight went into decline and humanism appeared. Here, original essays analyze a wide-range of violent acts in literature and culture, from civic violence to chivalric combat to brawls and battles.

Author : Stefan Dudink,Karen Hagemann,John Tosh
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2004-07-23
Category : History
ISBN : 0719065216

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Masculinities in Politics and War by Stefan Dudink,Karen Hagemann,John Tosh Pdf

In this collection, a group of historians explores the role of masculinity in the modern history of politics and war. Building on three decades of research in women's and gender history, the book opens up new avenues in the history of masculinity. The essays by social, political and cultural historians therefore map masculinity's part in making revolution, waging war, building nations, and constructing welfare states. Although the masculinity of modern politics and war is now generally acknowledged, few studies have traced the emergence and development of politics and war as masculine domains in the way this book does. Covering the period from the American Revolution to the Second World War and ranging over five continents, the essays in this book bring to light the many "masculinities" that shaped--and were shaped by--political and military modernity.

Author : Mark Breitenberg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1996-03-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015038101583

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Anxious Masculinity in Early Modern England by Mark Breitenberg Pdf

To recent studies of Renaissance subjectivity, Anxious Masculinity in Early Modern England contributes the argument that masculinity is unavoidably anxious and volatile in cultures that distribute power and authority according to patriarchal prerogatives. Drawing from current arguments in feminism, cultural studies, historicism, psychoanalysis and gay studies, Mark Breitenberg explores the dialectic of desire and anxiety in masculine subjectivity in the work of a wide range of writers, including Shakespeare, Bacon, Burton and the women writers of the 'querelles des femmes' debate, especially Jane Anger. Breitenberg discusses jealousy and cuckoldry anxiety, hetero and homoerotic desire, humoural psychology, anatomical difference, cross-dressing and the idea of honour and reputation. He traces masculine anxiety both as a sign of ideological contradiction and, paradoxically, as a productive force in the perpetuation of western patriarchal systems.

Author : Todd W. Reeser
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0807892874

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Moderating Masculinity in Early Modern Culture by Todd W. Reeser Pdf

Moderating Masculinity in Early Modern Culture proposes a definition of gender based on a ternary model in which moderation and masculinity are inextricably linked. Like the Aristotelian virtue of moderation, which requires the presence of excess a

Author : Dawn M. Hadley
Publisher : Addison Wesley Publishing Company
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Civilization, Medieval
ISBN : UCSC:32106014109349

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Masculinity in Medieval Europe by Dawn M. Hadley Pdf

This collection of essays is designed to reveal the realities of men's lives in the Middle Ages. The essays cover a wide geographical range and span the entire medieval period, from the 4th to the 15th century. The book is divided into four main sections, each addressing key themes - the plurality of masculinities, changes over time and across regions, and the significance of such variables as age in the construction of masculinities.

Author : Alexandra Shepard
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 0198208189

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Meanings of Manhood in Early Modern England by Alexandra Shepard Pdf

This path-breaking study explores the diverse and varied meanings of manhood in early modern England and their complex, and often contested, relationship with patriarchal principles. Using social, political and medical commentary, alongside evidence of social practice derived from court records, Dr Shepard argues that patriarchal ideology contained numerous contradictions, and that, while males were its primary beneficiaries, it was undermined and opposed by men as well as women. Patriarchal concepts of manhood existed in tension both with anti-patriarchal forms of resistance and with alternative codes of manhood which were sometimes primarily defined independently of patriarchal imperatives. As a result the differences within each sex, as well as between them, were intrinsic to the practice of patriarchy and the social distribution of its dividends in early modern England.

Author : Lynn Abrams
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2017-01-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781474403900

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Nine Centuries of Man by Lynn Abrams Pdf

What did it mean to be a man in Scotland over the past nine centuries?Scotland, with its stereotypes of the kilted warrior and the industrial ahard man has long been characterised in masculine terms, but there has been little historical exploration of what masculinity actually means for men (and women) in a Scottish context. This interdisciplinary collection explores a diverse range of the multiple and changing forms of masculinities from the late eleventh to the late twentieth century, examining the ways in which Scottish society through the ages defined expectations for men and their behaviour.How men reacted to those expectations is examined through sources such as documentary materials, medieval seals, romance, poetry, begging letters, police reports and court records, charity records, oral histories and personal correspondence. Focusing upon the wide range of activities and roles undertaken by men a work, fatherhood and play, violence and war, sex and commerce a the book also illustrates the range of masculinities which affected or were internalised by men. Together, they illustrate some of the ways Scotlands gender expectations have changed over the centuries and how more generally masculinities have informed the path of Scottish history.ContributorsLynn Abrams, University of GlasgowKatie Barclay, University of AdelaideAngela Bartiem University of EdinburghRosalind Carr, University of East LondonTanya Cheadle, University of GlasgowHarriet Cornell, University of EdinburghSarah Dunnigan, University of EdinburghElizabeth Ewan, University of GuelphAlistair Fraser, University of GlasgowSergi Mainer, University of EdinburghJeffrey Meek, University of GlasgowCynthia J. Neville, Dalhousie University Janay Nugent, University of Lethbridge Tawny Paul, Northumbria University

Author : Clare A. Lees,Thelma S. Fenster,Jo Ann McNamara
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0816624267

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Medieval Masculinities by Clare A. Lees,Thelma S. Fenster,Jo Ann McNamara Pdf

Since the mid-1970s men's studies, and gender studies has earned its place in scholarship. What's often missing from such studies, however, is the insight that the concept of gender in general, and that of masculinity in particular, can be understood only in relation to individual societies, examined at specific historical and cultural moments. An application of this insight, "Medieval Masculinities" is the first full-length collection to explore the issues of men's studies and contemporary theories of gender within the context of the Middle Ages. Interdisciplinary and multicultural, the essays range from matrimony in medieval Italy to bachelorhood in "Renaissance Venice", from friars and saints to the male animal in the fables of Marie de France, from manhood in "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight", "Beowulf" and the "Roman d'Eneas" to men as "other", whether Muslim or Jew, in medieval Castilian Epic and Ballad. The authors are especially concerned with cultural manifestations of masculinity that transcend this particular historical period - idealized gender roles, political and economic factors in structuring social institutions, and the impact of masculinist ideology in fostering and maintaining power. Together, these essays constitute an important reassessment of traditional assumptions within medieval studies, as well as a major contribution to the evolving study of gender.

Author : Elizabeth A. Foyster
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : England
ISBN : 058230735X

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Manhood in Early Modern England by Elizabeth A. Foyster Pdf

Focusing on the relationships that men formed with their wives in early modern England, Elizabeth Foyster makes an important contribution to social, family, and gender history. By studying men's personal lives she redresses the balance of research which has largely concentrated on the public lives of prominent men. Looking at youth and courtship before marriage, male fears of their wives' gossip and sexual betrayal, and male friendships before and after marriage, the importance of sexual reputation is highlighted throughout. Based on both legal records and fictional sources, this is a fascinating insight into the lives of ordinary men and women.

Author : Warburg Institute
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Art
ISBN : UCD:31175038935725

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Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes by Warburg Institute Pdf

Author : Tim Hitchcock,Michelle Cohen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2014-07-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317882497

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English Masculinities, 1660-1800 by Tim Hitchcock,Michelle Cohen Pdf

This collection of specially commissioned essays provides the first social history of masculinity in the ‘long eighteenth century’. Drawing on diaries, court records and prescriptive literature, it explores the different identities of late Stuart and Georgian men. The heterosexual fop, the homosexual, the polite gentleman, the blackguard, the man of religion, the reader of erotica and the violent aggressor are each examined here, and in the process a new and increasingly important field of historical enquiry is opened up to the non-specialist reader. The book opens with a substantial introduction by the Editors. This provides readers with a detailed context for the chapters which follow. The core of the book is divided into four main parts looking at sociability, virtue and friendship, violence, and sexuality. Within this framework each chapter forms a self-contained unit, with its own methodology, sources and argument. The chapters address issues such as the correlations between masculinity and Protestantism; masculinity, Englishness and taciturnity; and the impact of changing representations of homosexual desire on the social organisation of heterosexuality. Misogyny, James Boswell's self-presentation, the literary and metaphorical representation of the body, the roles of gossip and violence in men's lives, are each addressed in individual chapters. The volume is concluded by a wide-ranging synoptic essay by John Tosh, which sets a new agenda for the history of masculinity. An extensive guide to further reading is also provided. Designed for students, academics and the general reader alike, this collection of essays provides a wide-ranging and accessible framework within which to understand eighteenth-century men. Because of the variety of approaches and conclusions it contains, and because this is the first attempt to bring together a comprehensive set of writings on the social history of eighteenth-century masculinity, this volume does something quite new. It de-centres and problematises the male ‘standard’ and explores the complex and disparate masculinites enacted by the men of this period. This will be essential reading for anyone interested in eighteenth-century British social history.

Author : Monica Mattfeld
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2017-03-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780271079721

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Becoming Centaur by Monica Mattfeld Pdf

In this study of the relationship between men and their horses in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century England, Monica Mattfeld explores the experience of horsemanship and how it defined one’s gendered and political positions within society. Men of the period used horses to transform themselves, via the image of the centaur, into something other—something powerful, awe-inspiring, and mythical. Focusing on the manuals, memoirs, satires, images, and ephemera produced by some of the period’s most influential equestrians, Mattfeld examines how the concepts and practices of horse husbandry evolved in relation to social, cultural, and political life. She looks closely at the role of horses in the world of Thomas Hobbes and William Cavendish; the changes in human social behavior and horse handling ushered in by elite riding houses such as Angelo’s Academy and Mr. Carter’s; and the public perception of equestrian endeavors, from performances at places such as Astley’s Amphitheatre to the satire of Henry William Bunbury. Throughout, Mattfeld shows how horses aided the performance of idealized masculinity among communities of riders, in turn influencing how men were perceived in regard to status, reputation, and gender. Drawing on human-animal studies, gender studies, and historical studies, Becoming Centaur offers a new account of masculinity that reaches beyond anthropocentrism to consider the role of animals in shaping man.