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.

Stefan Dudink is Assistant Professor of Gay and Lesbian Studies at the Centre for Women's and Gender Studies, Nijmegen University, The Netherlands.

Karen Hagemann is Associate Professor in German and European History at the Technical University of Berlin.

John Tosh is Professor of History, University of Surrey, Roehampton.

List of Figures * List of Contributors * Acknowledgements * Preface * Part I: Masculinities in Politics and War: Introductions * Masculinity in Politics and War in the Age of Democratic Revolutions, 1750-1850--Stefan Dudink and Karen Hagemann * Masculinity in Politics and War in the Age of Nation-States and World Wars, 1850-1950--John Horne * Hegemonic Masculinity and the History of Gender--John Tosh * Part II: Historicising Revolutionary Masculinity: Constructs and Contexts * The Republican Gentleman: The Race to Rhetorical Stability in the New United States--Carroll Smith-Rosenberg * Masculinity, Effeminacy, Time: Conceptual Change in the Dutch Age of Democratic Revolutions--Stefan Dudink * Republican Citizenship and Heterosocial Desire: Concepts of Masculinity in Revolutionary France--Joan B. Landes * German Heroes: The Cult of Death For the Fatherland in Nineteenth-Century Germany--Karen Hagemann * Part III: Gendering the Nation: Hegemonic Masculinity and Its Others * 'Brothers of the Iranian Race': Manhood, Nationhood, and Modernity in Iran C.1870-1914--Joanna De Groot * Hegemonic Masculinity in Afrikaner Nationalist Mobilisation, 1934-1948--Jacobus Adriaan Du Pisani * Temperate Heroes: Concepts of Masculinity in Second World War Britain--Sonya O. Rose * Part IV: Analysing Power Relations: The Politics of Masculinity * Translating Needs into Rights: The Discursive Imperative of the Australian White Man, 1901-1930--Marilyn Lake * Measures for Masculinity: The American Labor Movement and Welfare State Policy During the Great Depression--Alice Kessler-Harris * Masculinities, Nations, and the New World Order: Gendered Discourses on Peacemaking and Nationality in Britain, France and the United States after the First World War--Glenda Sluga * Part V: Including the Subject: Masculinity and Subjectivity * The Political Man: The Construction of Masculinity in German Social Democracy, 1848-1878--Thomas Welskopp * Making Workers Masculine: The (Re)Construction of Male Worker Identity in Twentieth-Century Brazil--Barbara Weinstein * Maternal Relations: Moral Manliness and Emotional Survival in Letters Home during the First World War--Michael Roper