Stefan Dudink

Masculinities in politics and war: Gendering modern history - Gender in History Stefan Dudink

Marc Notes: Also avail. in cloth; Bibl. ref. & index. Review Quotes: "This book is remarkably accessible. Offering contributions from an astonishing array of eminent people working on masculinity, it is to be applauded for being truly international."--Joanna Bourke, Birkbeck CollegeBiographical Note: Stefan Dudink is Assistant Professor of Gay and Lesbian Studies at the Centre for Women's and Gender Studies, Nijmegen University, The Netherlands. Karen Hagemann is Associate Professor in German and European History at the Technical University of Berlin. John Tosh is Professor of History, University of Surrey, Roehampton. Table of Contents: List of Figures * List of Contributors * Acknowledgements * Preface * Part I: Masculinities in Politics and War: Introductions * Masculinity in Politics and War in the Age of Democratic Revolutions, 1750-1850--Stefan Dudink and Karen Hagemann * Masculinity in Politics and War in the Age of Nation-States and World Wars, 1850-1950--John Horne * Hegemonic Masculinity and the History of Gender--John Tosh * Part II: Historicising Revolutionary Masculinity: Constructs and Contexts * The Republican Gentleman: The Race to Rhetorical Stability in the New United States--Carroll Smith-Rosenberg * Masculinity, Effeminacy, Time: Conceptual Change in the Dutch Age of Democratic Revolutions--Stefan Dudink * Republican Citizenship and Heterosocial Desire: Concepts of Masculinity in Revolutionary France--Joan B. Landes * German Heroes: The Cult of Death For the Fatherland in Nineteenth-Century Germany--Karen Hagemann * Part III: Gendering the Nation: Hegemonic Masculinity and Its Others * 'Brothers of the Iranian Race': Manhood, Nationhood, and Modernity in Iran C.1870-1914--Joanna De Groot * Hegemonic Masculinity in Afrikaner Nationalist Mobilisation, 1934-1948--Jacobus Adriaan Du Pisani * Temperate Heroes: Concepts of Masculinity in Second World War Britain--Sonya O. Rose * Part IV: Analysing Power Relations: The Politics of Masculinity * Translating Needs into Rights: The Discursive Imperative of the Australian White Man, 1901-1930--Marilyn Lake * Measures for Masculinity: The American Labor Movement and Welfare State Policy During the Great Depression--Alice Kessler-Harris * Masculinities, Nations, and the New World Order: Gendered Discourses on Peacemaking and Nationality in Britain, France and the United States after the First World War--Glenda Sluga * Part V: Including the Subject: Masculinity and Subjectivity * The Political Man: The Construction of Masculinity in German Social Democracy, 1848-1878--Thomas Welskopp * Making Workers Masculine: The (Re) Construction of Male Worker Identity in Twentieth-Century Brazil--Barbara Weinstein * Maternal Relations: Moral Manliness and Emotional Survival in Letters Home during the First World War--Michael RoperPublisher Marketing: Written in an accessible style and presenting the latest work in the field, this text should be valuable reading for undergraduates, postgraduates and scholars interested in masculinity in modern political and military history. 1

Contributor Bio:  Dudink, Stefan Stefan Dudink is Assistant Professor of Gay and Lesbian Studies at the Centre for Women's and Gender Studies, Nijmegen University, The Netherlands. Karen Hagemann is Associate Professor in German and European History at the Technical University of Berlin. John Tosh is Professor of History, University of Surrey, Roehampton. Contributor Bio:  Hagemann, Karen Karen Hagemann is the James G. Kenan Distinguished Professor of History at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. She has published widely in modern German and European history and gender history. Her recent co-edited books include Gendering Modern German History: Rewriting Historiography (2007), Representing Masculinity: Male Citizenship in Modern Western Culture (2007), Gender, War, and Politics: Transatlantic Perspectives, 1775 1830 (2010), and War Memories: The Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars in Modern European Culture (2012).