Masculinities in an Industrializing Society: Britain, 1800–1914

Tosh, John

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“…67 Men came to dominate the ''public'' sphere, especially as the family breadwinner, while women occupied the familial, domestic ''private'' sphere. 68 However, historians have cited the growing importance of domesticity, control of dependents, and good fatherhood in particular for males.…”

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“…72 Additionally, domesticated middle-class morality was yet to significantly affect attitudes among the lower classes. 73 This included the early emergence of more stereotyped Victorian sexual behavior, based on the passive female as a receptacle for a more assertive, though still sexually restrained male. 74 Consequently, some argue the working-class experience of changing gender roles was minor, and class remained a greater social divide than gender.…”

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“…74 Consequently, some argue the working-class experience of changing gender roles was minor, and class remained a greater social divide than gender. 75 Despite this, these middle-class ethics were the ''hegemonic'' values as identified by Connell and represented societal expectations. 76 However, similar to suggestions by regional illegitimacy studies, many gender historians believe premarital sex was widely tolerated by all social levels, especially among young males.…”

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“…121 However, Figure 1 suggests this change in sentiment may have been building prior to then, and would reflect the growing attitude cited by gender historians, that women were expected to be almost devoid of sexual urges. 122 Consequently, women were increasingly punished for deviant behavior by men of a middling background more likely to subscribe to such beliefs.…”

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The Putative Fathers of Swinton, England

Harvey

2015

Journal of Family History

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This article addresses the shortfall in work on the treatment of illegitimacy under the old poor laws, and on the fathers involved, rather than the mothers. Moreover, through the new source use of letters from fathers, and the intensive case study of a single parish, it provides a corrective to a subject still excessively influenced by historical demography. The letters allow the social context and attitudes behind the laws to finally be examined on an individual level. They also reveal a distanced system of outparish bastardy payments. Using the personal experiences displayed, this article challenges theories on large-scale economic causation, considers the sentiment the authorities treated the fathers with, and the father's attitudes toward the repayments process. Additionally, this article makes exploratory comments on more distanced literature regarding nineteenth-century masculinity, which has rarely been paired with illegitimacy and the concept of the father outside the home.Themes tangentially explored within the historiography of bastardy range through economic fortune, sexual conduct, gender, social control, stigma, deviancy, agency, and power, and it allows us to see these themes in the most intimate of roles. Early studies were written by moralists and administrators, and many writings were high minded in tone, worrying about the impact of illegitimacy on society.

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The Putative Fathers of Swinton, England

Harvey

2015

Journal of Family History

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“…22 The ideal man on the frontier and the perfect imperial adventurer were single and free from the "constraints of domesticity." 23 In his Romanes Lecture at Oxford in 1907, Lord Curzon, former Viceroy of India, focused on the connection between the frontier and manliness. The frontier off ered an "ennobling and invigorating stimulus for our youth, saving them alike from the corroding ease and the morbid excitements of Western civilization."…”

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“Men of Frontier Experience”: Yukoners, Frontier Masculinity, and the First World War

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Lackenbauer

2017

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During the First World War, the Dawson Daily News ac vely produced a localized version of fron er masculinity that was used to defi ne the manly characteris cs of the Yukon's soldiers. In editorials and stories, local ar cula ons of Anglo-Saxon fron er masculinity connected to broader imperial tropes, but also adopted dis nc ve forms that refl ected how Yukoners imagined their par cular iden es. U lizing this local newspaper coverage, this ar cle explores how Yukoners understood masculinity, how they ed that masculinity to the war eff ort and how it shaped their experience of the war. This ar cle is part of a special collec on of papers originally presented at a conference on "The North and the First World War," held May 2016 in Whitehorse, Yukon.h ps://doi

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The Fate of Heroism After Industrialisation: The Working-Class Male in the British Nineteenth-Century Realist Novel and Beyond

Schneider

2016

Heroes and Heroism in British Fiction Since 1800

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Masculinities in an Industrializing Society: Britain, 1800–1914

Cited by 57 publications

References 26 publications

The Putative Fathers of Swinton, England

The Putative Fathers of Swinton, England

“Men of Frontier Experience”: Yukoners, Frontier Masculinity, and the First World War

The Fate of Heroism After Industrialisation: The Working-Class Male in the British Nineteenth-Century Realist Novel and Beyond

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