Men on Trial: Performing Emotion, Embodiment and Identity in Ireland, 1800-45
Men on Trial provides the first history of masculinity and the law in early nineteenth-century Ireland. It combines cutting-edge theories from the history of emotion, performativity and gender studies to argue for gender as a creative and productive force in determining legal and social power relationships. -- .
Katie Barclay
- Manchester University Press
- 9781526163646
- 280 pages
- €30
- Paperback / softback
- United Kingdom
- Social & cultural history
