gender and power in Low Countries Histories of Masculinity
- Categories
- Article/Artikel
- Magazine Title
- BMGN - Low Countries Historical Review
- Magazine Year
- 2012
- Magazine Number
- 1
- Creator
- Dudink, Stefan
- Thesaurus
- mannelijkheid, historisch, Nederland, België
- Description
- This article introduces the contributions to a special issue on Low Countries masculinities. It outlines a shared theoretical framework that focuses on what historian Mrinalini Sinha has called, 'the rhetorical and ideological efficacy' of notions of masculinity 'in underwriting various arrangements of power'. The article's central argument is that the history of masculinity should move 'beyond masculinity' by analysing the deployment of masculinity in the making, legitimisation and contestation of not just power relations of gender, but also other power relations.