Nine centuries of man : manhood and masculinities in Scottish history /
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 collectio...
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press,
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: interrogating men and masculinities in Scottish history / Lynn Abrams and Elizabeth Ewan
- Part 1: Models. 'Be wise in thy governing': managing emotion and controlling masculinity in early modern Scottish poetry / Sarah Dunnigan
- Reformed masculinity: ministers, fathers and male heads of households 1560-1660 / Janay Nugent
- The importance and impossibility of manhood: polite and libertine masculinities in the urban eighteenth century / Rosalind Carr
- The taming of Highland masculinity: interpersonal violence and shifting codes of manhood, c.1760-1840 / Lynn Abrams
- Part 2: Representations. Making a manly impression: the image of kingship on Scottish Royal Seals of the High Middle Ages / Cynthia J. Neville
- Contrasting kingly and knightly masculinities in Barbour's Bruce / Sergi Mainer
- Negotiating independence: manliness and begging letters in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Scotland / Katie Barclay
- A wartime family romance: narratives of masculinity and intimacy during World War Two / Lynn Abrams
- Part 3: Lived experiences. Social control and masculinity in early modern Scotland: expectations and behaviour in a lowland parish / Harriet Cornell
- A 'polite and commercial people'? Masculinity and economic violence in Scotland 1700-1760 / Tawny Paul
- Music hall, 'mashers' and the 'unco guid': competing masculinities in Victorian Glasgow / Tanya Cheadle
- 'That class of men': effeminacy, sodomy and failed masculinities in inter- and post-war Scotland / Jeffrey Meek
- Speaking to the 'hard men': masculinities, violence and youth gangs in Glasgow, c. 1965-75 / Angela Bartie and Alistair Fraser.