This book aims to initiate a dialogue between European integration theory and gender studies. The contributions illustrate how gender scholarship has made creative use of integration theories. They are designed to make gender scholarship more visible to integration theory and to stimulate the theoretical debate by adding a gender perspective.
This volume looks at the different consequences of the masculinity of power over two millennia of European history. It examines how masculinity and political culture have interacted from ancient Rome and the early medieval Byzantine empire, to twentieth-century Germany and Italy. It considers a broad variety of case studies from early medieval Iceland and late medieval France, to Naples at the time of the French Revolution and Strasbourg after the Franco-Prussian War, with a particular focus on the development of political masculinities in Great Britain between the sixteenth century and the present day.