Nine Centuries of Man: Manhood and Masculinities in Scottish History
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on the Contributors -- Introduction: Interrogating Men and Masculinities in Scottish History -- PART I Models -- 1 'Be Wise in Thy Governing': Managing Emotion and Controlling Masculinity in Early Modern Scottish Poetry -- 2 Reformed Masculinity: Ministers, Fathers and Male Heads of Households, 1560-1660 -- 3 The Importance and Impossibility of Manhood: Polite and Libertine Masculinities in the Urban Eighteenth Century -- 4 The Taming of Highland Masculinity: Interpersonal Violence and Shifting Codes of Manhood, c. 1760-1840 -- PART II Representations -- 5 Making a Manly Impression: The Image of Kingship on Scottish Royal Seals of the High Middle Ages -- 6 Contrasting Kingly and Knightly Masculinities in Barbour's Bruce -- 7 Negotiating Independence: Manliness and Begging Letters in Late Eighteenthand Early Nineteenth-Century Scotland -- 8 A Wartime Family Romance: Narratives of Masculinity and Intimacy during World War Two -- PART III Lived Experiences -- 9 Social Control and Masculinity in Early Modern Scotland: Expectations and Behaviour in a Lowland Parish -- 10 A 'Polite and Commercial People'? Masculinity and Economic Violence in Scotland, 1700-60 -- 11 Music Hall, 'Mashers' and the 'Unco Guid': Competing Masculinities in Victorian Glasgow -- 12 'That Class of Men': Effeminacy, Sodomy and Failed Masculinities in Inter- and Post-War Scotland -- 13 Speaking to the 'Hard Men': Masculinities, Violence and Youth Gangs in Glasgow, c. 1965-75 -- Index