In diverse bijdragen worden aspecten van mannelijkheid belicht. Bevat: Sociability and misogyny in the life of John Cannon, 1684-1743 / door Tim Hitchcock: Manliness, effeminacy and the French: gender and the construction of national character in eighteenth-century England / door Michèle Cohen: The body of the friend: continuity and change in masculine friendship in the seventeenth century / door Alan Bray en Michel Rey: Homo religiosus: masculinity and religion in the long eighteenth century / door Jeremy Gregory: James Boswell's manliness / door Philip Carter: Reforming male manners: public insult and the decline of violence in London, 1660-1740 / door Robert B. Shoemaker: Boys will be boys? Manhood and agression, 1660-1800 / door Elizabeth Foyster: 'Nothing is so secret but shall be revealed': the scandalous life of Robert Foulkes / door David Turner: 'The majesty of the masculine-form': multiplicity and male bodies in eighteenth-century erotica / door Karen Harvey: The old Adam and the new man: emerging themes in the history of English masculinities, 1750-1850 / door John Tosh