Men and Manliness on the Frontier: Queensland and British Columbia in the Mid-Nineteenth Century

by Robert Hogg

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In mid-nineteenth-century Britain, there existed a dominant discourse on what it meant to be a man -denoted by the term 'manliness'. Based on the sociological work of R.W. Connell and others who argue that gender is performative, Robert Hogg asks how British men performed manliness on the colonial frontiers of Queensland and British Columbia.

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0230250173

ISBN13:9780230250178

Release Date:November 2012

Publisher:Palgrave MacMillan

Length:232 Pages

Weight:0.95 lbs.

Dimensions:0.9" x 5.5" x 8.6"

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