Negotiating Masculinities and Modernity in the Maritime World, 1815–1940 1st Edition

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Product details:

• ISBN-10: 3030779467
• ISBN-13: 9783030779467
• Author: Joanne Begiato, Johnathan Thayer, Karen Downing
  

This book explores ideas of masculinity in the maritime world in the nineteenth and the first half of the twentieth century. During this time commerce, politics and technology supported male privilege, while simultaneously creating the polite, consumerist and sedentary lifestyles that were perceived as damaging the minds and bodies of men. This volume explores this paradox through the figure of the sailor, a working-class man whose representation fulfilled numerous political and social ends in this period. It begins with the enduring image of romantic, heroic veterans of the Napeolonic wars, takes the reader through the challenges to masculinities created by encounters with other races and ethnicities, and with technological change, shifting geopolitical and cultural contexts, and ends with the fragile portrayal of masculinity in the imagined Nelson. In doing so, this edited collection shows that maritime masculinities (ideals, representations and the seamen themselves) were highly visible and volatile sites for negotiating the tensions of masculinities with civilisation, race, technology, patriotism, citizenship, and respectability during the long nineteenth century.

Table contents:

1. Introduction: A Sailor’s Progress?
2. Regency Masculinity? Napoleonic War Veterans and Explaining Change in the History of Masculinities
3. ‘He Was Possessed of the Very First Natural Abilities’: American Mariners’ Construction of Masculinity on the Far Side of the World
4. ‘A Splendid Body of Men’: Fishermen as Model Males in Late-Nineteenth-Century British Imagery
5. Displaying the Wooden Walls of Old England: The HMS Foudroyant as a Monument to Lost Skills and Manhood, 1892–1897
6. ‘A Real Men’s Profession’: Finnish Sailors and Masculinities at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century
7. Row, Row, Row Your Boat: How the Marine Corps Engendered Landing Parties, 1898–1918
8. ‘Our Future Lies Upon the Water’: Redemptive Manhood and Maritime Labour Reform in the Wilhelmine Era in Germany
9. ‘Sailors’ Homes’: Sailors’ Boarding Houses, Maritime Reform, and Contested Domestic Space in New York’s Sailortown
10. Saving H.M.S. Victory: Admiral Nelson, Anti-socialism, and Heroic Masculinity
11. Navalism and Masculinity Before the First World War
12. Part IV. Nascent and Fragile Masculinities
13. Nelson Was No Milksop: Overcoming Frailty on Film in 1918
14. Epilogue: Manhood Found and Lost at Sea: The Loss of the Eurydice

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