What have historians done with masculinity? Reflections on five centuries of British history, circa 1500-1950

Journal of British Studies

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 274-280

  Harvey, Karen ^a   Shepard, Alexandra ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b CHRIST S COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 33745958870     PISSN: 00219371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/427125     Document Type: Review

References (20)

1. John Tosh, "What Should Historians Do with Masculinity? Reflections on Nineteenth-Century Britain," History Workshop Journal 38 (Autumn 1994): 179-202
2. Judith M. Bennett, "History That Stands Still: Women's Work in the European Past," Feminist Studies 14, no. 2 (1988): 269-83
3. and "Medieval Women, Modern Women: Across the Great Divide," in Culture and History, 1350-1600: Essays on English Communities, Identities and Writing, ed. David Aers (New York, 1992), 146-75
4. Katrina Honeyman and Jordan Goodman, "Women's Work, Gender Conflict, and Labour Markets in Europe, 1500-1900," Economic History Review 44, no. 4 (1991): 608-28
5. Amanda Vickery, "Golden Age to Separate Spheres? A Review of the Categories and Chronology of English Women's History," Historical Journal 36, no. 2 (1993): 383-414
6. See especially his "Masculinities and Globalization," Men and Masculinities 1, no. 1 (1998): 3-23
7. A similar point is made in John Tosh, "Hegemonic Masculinity and the History of Gender," in Masculinities in Politics and War: Gendering Modern History, ed. Stefan Dudink, Karen Hagemann, and John Tosh (Manchester, 2004), 52
8. Michael Roper, "Between Manliness and Masculinity: The 'War Generation' and Psychology of Fear in Britain, 1914-1950," Journal of British Studies 44, no. 2 (2005): 343-62
9. For a recent exception to this trend, see Dudink, Hagemann, and Tosh, eds., Masculinities in Politics and War
10. See June Purvis and Amanda Weatherill, "Playing the Gender History Game: A Reply to Penelope J. Corfield," Rethinking History 3, no. 3 (1999): 333-38
11. For important contributions, see Jeffrey Weeks, Coming Out: Homosexual Politics in Britain from the Nineteenth Century to the Present (London, 1977)
12. Alan Bray, Homosexuality in Renaissance England (London, 1982)
13. Randolph Trumbach, "The Birth of the Queen: Sodomy and the Emergence of Gender Equality in Modern Culture, 1660-1750," in Hidden From History: Reclaiming the Gay and Lesbian Past, ed. Martin. B. Duberman, Martha Vicinus, and George Chauncey, 129-40 (Harmondsworth, 1989)
14. and "London's Sapphists: From Three Sexes to Four Genders in the Making of Modern Culture," in Body Guards: The Cultural Politics of Gender Ambiguity, ed. Julia Epstein and Kristina Straub, 112-41 (New York, 1991)
15. Alan Sinfield, The Wilde Century (London, 1994)
16. Matt Cook, London and the Culture of Homosexuality, 1885-1914 (Cambridge,2003)
17. Connell, Masculinities, 77
18. For a useful discussion of the ways in which historians have deployed the concept, see Tosh, "Hegemonic Masculinity."
19. John Tosh, "Masculinities in an Industrial Society: Britain, 1800-1914," Journal of British Studies 44, no. 2 (2005): 330-42
20. Tosh, "What Should Historians Do with Masculinity?" 184