![]() Nearing the end of the 19 th century, however, masculinity and militarism became intimately linked this process intensified during the early years of the 20 th century. Differentiating Mosse’s claims, a number of studies on ideals of masculinity in the 19 th century have since shown that in the early half of the 19 th century the soldierly ideal of manliness was not yet dominant, but rather stood in competition with a range of other concepts of masculinity. An important stimulus for research was George Mosse’s (1918-1999) book-length essay The Image of Man (1996), which traced the relationship between masculinity and sacrifice back to the French Revolution. ![]() Was the First World War a turning point in the history of masculinity, witnessing the demise of old ideals of masculinity and the reconfiguration of gender relations? The interest in the war’s impact on men is relatively recent: only in the mid-1990s did historians of the First World War start to turn their attention to images of masculinity, ideals of manliness, and to male identities. The Militarisation of Masculinity before 1914 ↑
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |