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In this collection, a group of historians explores the role of
masculinity in the modern history of politics and war. Building on
three decades of research in women's and gender history, the book
opens up new avenues in the history of masculinity. The essays by
social, political and cultural historians therefore map
masculinity's part in making revolution, waging war, building
nations, and constructing welfare states. Although the masculinity
of modern politics and war is now generally acknowledged, few
studies have traced the emergence and development of politics and
war as masculine domains in the way this book does. Covering the
period from the American Revolution to the Second World War and
ranging over five continents, the essays in this book bring to
light the many "masculinities" that shaped--and were shaped
by--political and military modernity.
To date, the history of military and war has focused predominantly
on men as historical agents, disregarding gender and its complex
interrelationships with war and the military. The Oxford Handbook
of Gender, War, and the Western World since 1600 investigates how
conceptions of gender have contributed to the shaping of war and
the military and were transformed by them. Covering the major
periods in warfare since the seventeenth century, the Handbook
focuses on Europe and the long-term processes of colonization and
empire-building in the Americas, Asia, Africa and Australia.
Thirty-two essays written by leading international scholars explore
the cultural representations of war and the military, war
mobilization, and war experiences at home and on the battle front.
Essays address the gendered aftermath and memories of war, as well
as gendered war violence. Essays also examine movements to regulate
and prevent warfare, the consequences of participation in the
military for citizenship, and challenges to ideals of Western
military masculinity posed by female, gay, and lesbian soldiers and
colonial soldiers of color. The Oxford Handbook of Gender, War, and
the Western World since 1600 Roffers an authoritative account of
the intricate relationships between gender, warfare, and military
culture across time and space.
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