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1. 1. A History Of Masculinity

   

   Tracing the making and remaking of male identities from the nineteenth century to the present, this book treats masculinity as a historically constructed, plural set of practices and expectations rather than a fixed essence. Drawing on newspapers, court records, personal writings and official documents, it shows how ideals of virility, authority and provision were shaped by class, labor, war, family law and state power, and how those ideals were often entangled with violence and domination. The narrative follows the gradual fracturing of singular masculine norms under the pressures of industrialization, urbanization, feminist movements, changing labor markets and welfare policies, and engages contemporary debates about a perceived “crisis” of masculinity and the emergence of more egalitarian, caring forms of manhood. Across the study the emphasis is on contingency and plurality: masculinities are produced, enforced, resisted and reinvented in different social and historical contexts.