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1 online resource |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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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 'hard 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? work, fatherhood and play, violence and war, sex and commerce? the book also illustrates the range of masculinities which affected or were internalised by men. Together, they illustrate some of the ways Scotland's gender expectations have changed over the centuries and how more generally masculinities have informed the path of Scottish history. Contributors<ul><li>Lynn Abrams, University of Glasgow</li><li>Katie Barclay, University of Adelaide</li><li>Angela Bartiem University of Edinburgh</li><li>Rosalind Carr, University of East London</li><li>Tanya Cheadle, University of Glasgow</li><li>Harriet Cornell, University of Edinburgh</li><li>Sarah Dunnigan, University of Edinburgh</li><li>Elizabeth Ewan, University of Guelph</li><li>Alistair Fraser, University of Glasgow</li><li>Sergi Mainer, University of Edinburgh</li><li>Jeffrey Meek, University of Glasgow</li><li>Cynthia J. Neville, Dalhousie University</li> <li>Janay Nugent, University of Lethbridge</li> <li>Tawny Paul, Northumbria University</li></ul> |
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Intro -- Nine Centuries of Man -- Copyright -- Contents -- Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on the Contributors -- Introduction: Interrogating Men and Masculinities in Scottish History -- 1 'Be Wise in Thy Governing': -- 2 Reformed Masculinity: Ministers, Fathers and Male Heads of Households, 1560-1660 -- 3 The Importance and Impossibility of Manhood: Polite and Libertine Masculinities in the Urban Eighteenth Century -- 4 The Taming of Highland Masculinity: Interpersonal Violence and Shifting Codes of Manhood, c. 1760-1840 -- 5 Making a Manly Impression: The Image of Kingship on Scottish Royal Seals of the High Middle Ages -- 6 Contrasting Kingly and Knightly Masculinities in Barbour's Bruce -- 7 Negotiating Independence: Manliness and Begging Letters in Late Eighteenth- and Early Nineteenth-Century Scotland -- 8 A Wartime Family Romance: Narratives of Masculinity and Intimacy during World War Two -- 9 Social Control and Masculinity in Early Modern Scotland: Expectations and Behaviour in a Lowland Parish -- 10 A 'Polite and Commercial People'? Masculinity and Economic Violence in Scotland, 1700-60 -- 11 Music Hall, 'Mashers' and the 'Unco Guid': Competing Masculinities in Victorian Glasgow -- 12 'That Class of Men': Effeminacy, Sodomy and Failed Masculinities in Inter- and Post-War Scotland -- 13 Speaking to the 'Hard Men': Masculinities, Violence and Youth Gangs in Glasgow, c. 1965-75 -- Index. |
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Men -- Scotland -- History.
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Men. |
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Scotland. |
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History. |
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Masculinity -- Scotland -- History.
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Masculinity. |
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Electronic books.
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History.
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Men. |
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Abrams, Lynn, editor.
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Ewan, Elizabeth, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 9781474403894 1474403891 (OCoLC)972918452 |
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9781474403900 (electronic book) |
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1474403905 (electronic book) |
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9781474403894 |
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1474403891 |
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