Format:
IX, 232 S.
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23 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
9780230250178
Series Statement:
Genders and sexualities in history
Content:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-227) and index
Content:
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
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; Maps; 1 Masculinities and Frontiers; 2 The Most Manly Class That Exists; 3 The Sterling Qualities of the Saxon Race; 4 Men without (White) Women; 5 Blacks, Chinks and a Pig-Headed German; 6 A Hand Prepared to be Red; 7 A Wild Self-Dependence of Character; Notes; Bibliography; Index;
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781137284259
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780230250178
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Men and Manliness on the Frontier : Queensland and British Columbia in the Mid-Nineteenth Century
Language:
English
Keywords:
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