Representing Masculinity Male Citizenship in Modern Western Culture

by Dudink, Stefan; Hagemann, Karen; Clark, Anna

• ISBN13: 9781403975669
• ISBN10: 1403975663
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-11-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

The idea that citizenship was the right of all humanity emerged during the French Revolution.However, this right was limited by gender, class and race. Studying Europe and its colonies and the United States, this book analyzes images of masculine citizenship in political rhetoric, culture, and various political struggles from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries. Politicians manipulated the rhetoric of masculine citizenship, using images of paternity and fraternity. Art represented competing images of the masculine citizen, ranging from the black revolutionary to the neo-Greek white statue. Political subjects inempires and colonies appropriated and subverted these western ideals, revealing the exclusions in the rhetoric of masculine citizenship.

Author Biography

Stefan Dudink is Assistant Professor at the Institute for Gender Studies of Radboud University, Nijmegen, the Netherlands. He is co-editor, with Karen Hagemann and John Tosh, of Masculinities in Politics and War: Gendering Modern History (2004).
Karen Hagemann is James G. Kenan Distinguished Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She recently co-edited in English Home/Front: Military and Gender in 20th Century Germany (2002), Masculinities in Politics and War: Gendering Modern History (2004), and Gendering Modern German History. Themes, Debates, Revisions (2007).
Anna Clark is Professor of History at the University of Minnesota and holds the Samuel Russell Chair in the Humanities. She is the author of The Struggle for the Breeches: Gender and the Making of the British Working Class (1995), and Scandal: The Sexual Politics of the British Constitution, among other publications on working-class history and the history of sexuality.