Men and Manliness on the Frontier Queensland and British Columbia in the Mid-Nineteenth Century

In mid-nineteenth-century Britain, there existed a dominant discourse on what it meant to be a man –denoted by the term 'manliness'. Based on the sociological work of R.W. Connell and others who argue that gender is performative, Robert Hogg asks how British men performed manliness on the...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hogg, Robert
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London Palgrave Macmillan UK 2012, 2012
Series:Genders and Sexualities in History
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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Summary:In mid-nineteenth-century Britain, there existed a dominant discourse on what it meant to be a man –denoted by the term 'manliness'. Based on the sociological work of R.W. Connell and others who argue that gender is performative, Robert Hogg asks how British men performed manliness on the colonial frontiers of Queensland and British Columbia
Physical Description:IX, 232 p online resource
ISBN:9781137284259