What is masculinity?

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 The History of Masculinity: An Outdated Concept?

Chapter 3 Can the Hegemon Speak? Reading Masculinity through Anthropology

Chapter 4 The Whig Interpretation of Masculinity? Honour and Sexuality in Late Medieval Manhood

Chapter 5 Masculinity without Conflict: Noblemen in Eighth- and Ninth-Century Francia

Chapter 6 Masculinities in Early Hellenistic Athens

Chapter 7 Masculinity As a World Historical Category of Analysis

Chapter 8 Hegemonic Masculinities? Assessing Change and Processes of Change in Elite Masculinity, 1700–1900

Chapter 9 Masculinity and Fatherhood in England c. 1760–1830

Chapter 10 Athenian Pederasty and the Construction of Masculinity

Chapter 11 An Orchard, a Love Letter and Three Bastards: The Formation of Adult Male Identity in a Fifteenth-Century Family

Chapter 12 ‘To Make a Man Without Reason’: Examining Manhood and Manliness in Early Modern England

Chapter 13 ‘Boys, Semi-Men and Bearded Scholars’: Maturity and Manliness in Early Nineteenth-Century Oxford

Chapter 14 St Francis of Assisi and the Making of Settlement Masculinity, 1883–1914

Chapter 15 Homes Fit for Homos: Joe Orton, Masculinity and the Domesticated Queer

Chapter 16 Three Faces of Fatherhood As a Masculine Category: Tyrants, Teachers, and Workaholics As ‘Responsible Family Men’ during Canada’s Baby Boom

Chapter 17 Cow Boys, Cattle Men and Competing Masculinities on the Texas Frontier

Chapter 18 Valorising Samurai Masculinity through Biblical Language: Christianity, Oscar Wilde and Natsume Soseki’s Novel Kokoro

Chapter 19 ‘Proper Government and Discipline’: Family Religion and Masculine Authority in Nineteenth-Century Canada

Chapter 20 Punters and Their Prostitutes: British Soldiers, Masculinity and Maisons Tolérées in the First World War

Chapter 21 Masculinities, Histories and Memories