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This chapter builds on my previous interests in the cinematic countryside and in constructions of urban and rural masculinities (Bell, 1997 ; 2000 ). It seeks to make a modest contribution to the growing body of work on gender and the rural, and more specifically on the relationships between rurality and masculinity (for an overview, see Little, 2002 ). My aim (to borrow from Rachel
Ballad of Reading Gaol (1898), and Dorian Gray. As already suggested, one principal issue at the time which relates to masculinity and desire concerns visibility and invisibility, it is one which is addressed through Wilde’s particular construction of Camp. Camp Thomas A. King has persuasively argued, in historicist terms, that the performative aspects of Camp
Sherlock Holmes’s association with an abstracted, instrumental and superior gaze has suggested to critics the presence of a specifically masculine intellect, one which is contrasted, in the tales, with images of feminine irrationality. 1 Joseph A. Kestner in Sherlock’s Men: Masculinity .; Conan Doyle, and Cultural History (1997) suggests that rationality was
reform in India. Indeed, the Public Service Commission did more than simply ignore native claims to higher employment in the public administration in India. Rather, by reorganising the civil service along the lines of a specifically sectarian definition of colonial masculinity, which simultaneously provided a provincial and religious context for native masculinity and an imperial context for ‘English
sum, now begun to break down. In what follows we will examine the material impact of these worsening socio-economic predicaments through the lenses of masculinity and rebel populist politics. 10 I argue that, in the absence of any coherent hegemonic revolutionary ideology, masculinity and its contradictions was, for those with little prior former political experience, a central component through which
figure lurking in the cities, that enables politicians, the police, the press and eventually ‘common-sense’ racism, to legitimise the policies necessary to ‘police the crisis’. 7 This chapter analyses political rhetoric, the conservative press and the policing of Black men to unpack the ways in which Black masculinity is framed as deviant, dangerous and alien to Britain. It is contrasted with legitimate white masculinities that manifest themselves through success in the market economy, state power, or the nuclear family. Building on the previous chapter, I argue that
career to date (the 1980s and 1990s), focus thematically and generically upon male relationships and foreground certain male actors (Jean Rochefort, Alain Delon, Jean-Paul Belmondo) in such a way as to contribute to, exploit or skew their existing star images. In his choice of generic mode, cast and subject matter, Leconte puts masculinity relentlessly on display. It is my contention that Leconte’s films demonstrate ways
. This practice would help to ameliorate anxieties about colonial masculinity and its failures. Publishing more than twenty years apart about newcomers to the colony of Victoria, contemporary writers N. W. Pollard and W. J. Woods both suggested what other commentators had also come to suspect about the dangers inherent in migrant populations: that the weak, ill, dissolute, or lazy would find their way into
4 The continuity of craft masculinities: from letterpress to offset-lithography I could still get on there and operate that, you know.1 – Norm Rigney, former letterpress-machinist Letterpress printing has traditional associations with craftsmanship and masculinity, where a press-machinist’s technologies, tools and manual skill were powerful indicators of identity and social status. But what happened to letterpress-machinists between the 1960s and the 1980s, when the printing industry underwent dramatic technological change? Letterpress had been the dominant
This book is about the processes and practices through which two differently positioned elites, among the colonisers and the colonised, were constituted respectively as the 'manly Englishman' and the 'effeminate Bengali'. It argues that the emerging dynamics between colonial and nationalist politics in the 1880s and 1890s in India is best captured in the logic of colonial masculinity. The figures of the 'manly Englishman' and the 'effeminate Bengali' were thus constituted in relation to colonial Indian society as well as to some aspects of late nineteenth-century British society. These aspects of late nineteenth-century British society are the emergence of the 'New Woman', the 'remaking of the working class', the legacy of 'internal colonialism', and the anti-feminist backlash of the 1880s and 1890s. A sustained focus on the imperial constitution of colonial masculinity, therefore, serves also to refine the standard historical scholarship on nineteenth-century British masculinity. The book traces the impact of colonial masculinity in four specific controversies: the 'white mutiny' against the Ilbert Bill in 1883, the official government response to the Native Volunteer movement in 1885, the recommendations of the Public Service Commission of 1886, and the Indian opposition to the Age of Consent Bill in 1891. In this book, the author situates the analysis very specifically in the context of an imperial social formation. In doing so, the author examines colonial masculinity not only in the context of social forces within India, but also as framed by and framing political, economic, and ideological shifts in Britain.