A man's world ? : political masculinities in literature and culture : [Textes issus d'un colloque qui s'est tenu à Landau du 30 novembre au 2 décembre 2012

Political institutions and practices such as the state, parliament, citizenship and nationality, the vote, the military, and the making and implementation of laws have traditionally been treated as if they were un-gendered and guided exclusively by objective reasoning and rationality. Rationality and reason, though, have been habitually ascribed to masculinity, a fact which has often been ignored in favour of the apparent gender-inclusiveness of the realm of politics. In contrast to this view, this book explores the interdependence of the construction of masculinities, on the one hand, and the emerging, maintenance, and modification of concepts such as the state, citizenship, nationality and nationalism, democracy and militarism on the other. Illustrating the great amount of research activity in the field of political masculinities, the book offers many perspectives in its attempt to shed light on different modes of representing and constructing political masculinities across time and space. Findings from the fields of political science, history, media studies, literature, and film studies, as well as cultural studies, encourage an interdisciplinary debate of political masculinities in Europe and the United States from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century. TABLE OF CONTENTS 6 PART I 8 POLITICAL MASCULINITIES 10 MASCULINITY AS AN ANALYTICALCATEGORY 18 PART II 32 RATIONAL AND RESPECTABLE BEINGS 34 LA VOIX DU PAYS 46 PART III 58 ETHNICITY, MILITARY SERVICE AND MALECIVIC IN/EXCLUSION IN FINLAND, 1918–1928 60 GUN RIGHTS AS PRIVILEGES OF FREE MEN 74 “SPEEDY CARS, PERKY WOMEN,CHAMPAGNE AND STRIPTEASE BARS” 88 PART IV 102 “A TRAITOR, AN ADULTERER!” 104 THE IDEAL OF A MASCULINIST STATEIN THOMAS MANN’S NOVELLAMARIO AND THE MAGICIAN 118 PART V 132 “DON’T SAY PENIS IN THIS HOUSE” 134 “LOVERS, NOT FIGHTERS” 148 “JOIN OUR BAND OF BROTHERS” 162 PART VI 174 POLITICAL MASCULINITIES THEN AND NOW 176 PLAYBOYS AND POLITICIANS 188 CONTRIBUTORS 202 NAME INDEX 208 SUBJECT INDEX 210 Edited By Kathleen Starck And Birgit Sauer. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.