Men and Masculinities in Modern Britain

Matt Houlbrook is a Professor of Cultural History at the University of Birmingham Katie Jones is an Independent Scholar living in Birmingham Ben Mechen is a Researcher at the University of Bristol -- .

Introduction: Histories for the present
Matt Houlbrook, Katie Jones, and Ben Mechen

Part I: INSTITUTIONS
1: Male breadwinners of ‘doubtful sex’: Trans men and the welfare state, 1954-1970
Adrian Kane-Galbraith
2: Reading colonial masculinity through a marriage in Burma
Jonathan Saha
3: ‘Crutches as weapons’: Reading Blackness and the disabled soldier body in the First World War
Hilary Buxton
Reflection: Male historians explain things to me: Masculinity, expertise, and the academy
Charlotte Riley

Part II: HISTORIES
4: ‘Formal qualifications for full masculine status’? Challenging the fragmentation of the male lifecycle through the First World War pension archives
Jessica Meyer
5: Reimagining working-class masculinities in the twentieth century
Helen Smith
6: Perceptions of crisis in the history of masculinity: Power and change in modern Britain
Ben Griffin
Reflection: Masculinities and history for the present
John Tosh

Part III: EVERYDAY LIVES
7: Gender, locality, and culture: revisiting masculinities in the Liverpool docklands, 1900-1939
Pat Ayers
8: Struggling ‘heroes’: Everyday masculine encounters in the public library, c. 1890s-1920s
Michelle Johansen
9: Fathers, sons, and ‘normal’, ‘ordinary’ family life, 1945-1974
Richard Hall
Reflection: Doing gender history and the history of masculinity
Michael Roper

Part IV: BODIES
10: Dirty magazines, clean consciences: Men and pornography in the 1970s
Ben Mechen
11: ‘It’s more what me and my partner feel comfortable with’: Gay masculinities, safer sex, and Project Sigma, 1987-1996
Katie Jones
Reflection: Writing the history of male sexuality in the wake of Operation Yewtree and #MeToo
Hannah Charnock

Conclusion: Histories, historians, and the politics of masculinity
Lucy Delap and John Tosh, in conversation -- .