Genders and Sexualities in History: Queensland and British Columbia in the Mid-Nineteenth Century

Hogg, R.

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.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2012-11-14

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9780230250178

DOI: 10.1057/9781137284259

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 232