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This handbook aims to challenge 'gender blindness' in the
historical study of high politics, power, authority and government,
by bringing together a group of scholars at the forefront of
current historical research into the relationship between
masculinity and political power. Until very recently in historical
terms, formal political authority in Europe was normally and
ideally held by adult males, with female power being perceived as a
recurrent aberration. Yet paradoxically the study of the
interactions between masculinity and political culture is still
very much in its infancy. This volume seeks to remedy this lacuna
by considering the different consequences of the masculinity of
power over two millennia of European history. It examines how
masculinity and political culture have interacted from ancient Rome
and the early medieval Byzantine empire, to twentieth-century
Germany and Italy. It considers a broad variety of case studies
from early medieval Iceland and late medieval France, to Naples at
the time of the French Revolution and Strasbourg after the
Franco-Prussian War, with a particular focus on the development of
political masculinities in Great Britain between the sixteenth
century and the present day.
This edited collection presents a selection of essays on the
history of Irish masculinities. Beginning with representations of
masculinity in eighteenth-century drama, economics, and satire, and
concluding with work on the politics of masculinity post
Good-Friday Agreement in Northern Ireland, the collection advances
the importance of masculinities in our understanding of Irish
history and historiography. Using a variety of approaches,
including literary and legal theory as well as cultural, political
and local histories, this collection illuminates the differing
forms, roles, and representations of Irish masculinities. Themes
include the politicisation of Irishmen in both the Republic of
Ireland and in Northern Ireland; muscular manliness in the Irish
Diaspora; Orangewomen and political agency; the disruptive
possibility of the rural bachelor; and aspirational constructions
of boyhood. Several essays explore how masculinity is constructed
and performed by women, thus emphasizing the necessity of
differentiating masculinity from maleness. These essays demonstrate
the value of gender and masculinities for historical research and
the transformative potential of these concepts in how we envision
Ireland's past, present, and future.
Inspired by recent adoptions of same-sex marriage, From Sodomy Laws
to Same-Sex Marriage provides international perspectives on the
legal and social history of same-sex relationships from the early
19th century to the present. Its emphasis is on areas where the
impetus for change has been most noticeable: Europe, the Americas,
and Australasia. From Sodom and Gomorrah to Britain's sodomy laws
and continental Europe's abhorrence of sexual acts 'against
nature', the history of same-sex love traditionally ranged from
fire and brimstone maledictions to secrecy and scandal. Until
recently, legal positions across the western world reflected the
legacies of the British and French empires, as well as
Christianity, particularly Catholicism. In recent years, however,
there has been a revolution in attitudes towards same-sex
relationships. This poses hitherto unanswered questions: what
historical complexities lie behind the revolutionary shift from
punitive attitudes to legal endorsement of same-sex relationships?
Given the cultural variety of historical attitudes to same-sex
relationships, why has their legal acceptance been so
international? The essays in this volume provide answers to these
questions, offering the first international overview of the topic.
While other studies have attempted to explain the change in legal
and social treatment of same-sex relationships in a national
context, or within a shorter time frame, this is the first volume
to examine the topic from the French Revolution to the present day,
bringing together a diverse array of perspectives over a range of
countries. It is an important volume for students and scholars of
queer history, the history of sexuality, law and sociology.
A collection of poems exploring such diverse themes as love,
passion, childhood, sorrow and loss in a changing landscape
travelling through the jagged coastline of Achill to the urban
decay of London and Dublin. Memories are replayed in minute detail
lapsing into finely tuned pieces. Moments in time revealed.
Snatches of life around her coming under her spell. This is her
first collection.
Inspired by recent adoptions of same-sex marriage, From Sodomy Laws
to Same-Sex Marriage provides international perspectives on the
legal and social history of same-sex relationships from the early
19th century to the present. Its emphasis is on areas where the
impetus for change has been most noticeable: Europe, the Americas,
and Australasia. From Sodom and Gomorrah to Britain's sodomy laws
and continental Europe's abhorrence of sexual acts 'against
nature', the history of same-sex love traditionally ranged from
fire and brimstone maledictions to secrecy and scandal. Until
recently, legal positions across the western world reflected the
legacies of the British and French empires, as well as
Christianity, particularly Catholicism. In recent years, however,
there has been a revolution in attitudes towards same-sex
relationships. This poses hitherto unanswered questions: what
historical complexities lie behind the revolutionary shift from
punitive attitudes to legal endorsement of same-sex relationships?
Given the cultural variety of historical attitudes to same-sex
relationships, why has their legal acceptance been so
international? The essays in this volume provide answers to these
questions, offering the first international overview of the topic.
While other studies have attempted to explain the change in legal
and social treatment of same-sex relationships in a national
context, or within a shorter time frame, this is the first volume
to examine the topic from the French Revolution to the present day,
bringing together a diverse array of perspectives over a range of
countries. It is an important volume for students and scholars of
queer history, the history of sexuality, law and sociology.
Following his general audience in St Peter's Square on 17 October
2007, the Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI announced that Sean Brady,
Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland, was to be created
cardinal in a consistory.
This book,Compiled by Brenda Drumm, brings together the Papal World
Communications Day messages of Popes Paul IV, John Paul II and
Benedict XVI over the past 40 years and some of the key church
documents on social communications issued duing that period. It
reminds us of the amazing changes and developements that have taken
place in social communications over the years and the challenge
they present to the Church in its responsability to present Christs
face and voice in a new millenium of global communications. It is a
very timely resource book.
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