Men and Manliness on the Frontier
| Author | : R. Hogg |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 232 |
| Release | : 2012-11-14 |
| ISBN-10 | : 9781137284259 |
| ISBN-13 | : 1137284250 |
| Rating | : 4/5 (250 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis Men and Manliness on the Frontier by : R. Hogg
Download or read book Men and Manliness on the Frontier written by R. Hogg and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-11-14 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
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