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OverviewThere is growing interest in the history of masculinity and male culture, including violence, as an integral part of a proper understanding of gender. In almost every historical setting, masculinity and violence are closely linked; certainly violent crime has been overwhelmingly a male enterprise. But violence is not always criminal: in many cultural contexts violence is linked instead to honour and encoded in rituals. We possess only an imperfect understanding of the ways in which aggressive behaviour, or the abstention from aggressive behaviour, contributes to the construction of masculinity and male honour. In this text eight scholars explore the interrelationship of masculinity, honour and the body. The essays focus on the United States and Western Europe from the 17th to the 20th centuries. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Pieter SpierenburgPublisher: Ohio State University Press Imprint: Ohio State University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.581kg ISBN: 9780814207529ISBN 10: 0814207529 Pages: 304 Publication Date: January 1998 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Awaiting stock  The supplier is currently out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out for you. Table of ContentsPart 1 Elite Duelling: The Taming of the Noble Ruffian - Male Violence and Duelling in Early Modern and Modern Germany; Men of Steel - Duelling, Honour, and Politics in Liberal Italy; The End of the Modern French Duel. Part 2 Popular Duels: Knife Fighting and Popular Codes of Honour in Early Modern Amsterdam; Homicide and Knife Fighting in Rome During the 19th and Early-20th Centuries; Fights/Fires - Violent Firemen in the 19th-Century American City. Part 3 Violence and the State: The Victorian Criminalization of Men; White Supremacist Justice and the Rule of Law - Honour, Lynching, and the State in Ben Tillman's South Carolina; The Equal of Some White Men and the Superior of Others - Masculinity and the 1916 Lynching of Anthony Crawford in Abbeville County, South Carolina.ReviewsAuthor InformationTab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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