Men and Manliness on the Frontier
Queensland and British Columbia in the Mid-Nineteenth Century
Authors: Hogg, R.
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- About this book
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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.
- About the authors
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ROBERT HOGG lectures in Australian Studies at the University of Queensland, Australia, where he has also taught Australian history, world history, and the history of sex and sexuality. He has also taught at Griffith University, Australia.
- Reviews
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“Robert Hogg examines the gendered expectations, manly identities, and lived experiences of British men in mid-nineteenth-century Queensland and British Columbia. … Hogg’s rich attention to men’s lived experiences not only makes this an eminently readable book but also helps to deepen existing understandings of mid-nineteenth-century British Columbia. … Hogg’s comparative approach should also be intriguing for readers interested in colonial British Columbia.” (Laura Ishiguro, The British Columnian Quartlerly, Vol. 189, April, 2016)
"Robert Hogg's insightful book presents a convincing argument for the cross-referencing of colonial experience within the framework of understanding masculinity." - Queensland Review
"Men and Manliness on the Frontier is an accomplished piece of scholarship. Hogg offers a useful exploration of the ideological and material elements of frontier masculinity and makes good use of the archival treasures at his disposal. This book offers a valuable resource for anyone interested in the interconnections between lives, experiences and ideas in the history of masculinity." - Chris Brickell, Otago University
"Men and Manliness on the Frontier adds to imperial history by describing masculinites as they evolved in two different, yet similar, British colonies ... this work will be useful to historians of British gender and empire as well as those of Canada and Australia." - The Historian
- Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Masculinities and Frontiers
Pages 1-22
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The Most Manly Class That Exists
Pages 23-53
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The Sterling Qualities of the Saxon Race
Pages 54-84
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Men without (White) Women
Pages 85-120
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Blacks, Chinks and a Pig-Headed German
Pages 121-151
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Men and Manliness on the Frontier
- Book Subtitle
- Queensland and British Columbia in the Mid-Nineteenth Century
- Authors
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- R. Hogg
- Series Title
- Genders and Sexualities in History
- Copyright
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Copyright Holder
- Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited
- eBook ISBN
- 978-1-137-28425-9
- DOI
- 10.1057/9781137284259
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-0-230-25017-8
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-1-349-32111-7
- Series ISSN
- 2730-9479
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- IX, 232
- Topics
