Promenading and picnicking
The performance of middle‐class masculinity in nineteenth‐century Sydney
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12647496 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Cameron White (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 30 |
| Issue | 89 |
| Pages | 27-40 |
| Publication date | 2006-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Australian Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1444-3058 • E-ISSN: 1835-6419 |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/14443050609388090 |
| OpenAlex | W2052428568 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
A brief discussion on analysis of masculinity as a complex form of social power, or discourse is examined. The relations between men and men, and men and women are presented specifically focussing on the performance of middle-class masculinity in Sydney during the mid-nineteenth century via the picnic and the promenade. Middle-class masculinity and the rituals through which it is performed, the picnic and the promenade, are not entirely hegemonic but are widely contested by a class of men who came to be known as larrikins. The threat posed by these larrikins is illustrated by the extent to which they are defined as unmanly
Class (philosophy · Epistemology · Masculinity · Middle class · Political science · Sociology · Australian History and Society · Gender Roles and Identity Studies · Gender Studies · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes · History · Law · Philosophy
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0.24 |
| Citation span | 2009 - 2024 (16) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |