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2021/22 Undergraduate Module Catalogue

HIST3732 Men and Masculinity in Britain, c.1860-1960: War, Work and Home

20 creditsClass Size: 28

Module manager: Dr Claire Martin
Email: c.p.martin@leeds.ac.uk

Taught: Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) View Timetable

Year running 2021/22

This module is not approved as a discovery module

Module summary

The question of making men visible as gendered subjects is a relatively recent development in the theory and methodology of gender history, one that has major implications for understandings of social, cultural and political history. Drawing on John Tosh's schema of three spheres of masculine self-expression, the module will explore the history of men and masculinity in the experiences of war, work and home life. Through seminar discussions, students will gain a complex understanding of men's behaviours, attitudes and identities in private and in public, and will be encouraged to think about how cultural constructions of masculinities in political discourses and popular culture interact with the experiences of individuals.

Objectives

Students will:
1) Gain an understanding of the approaches and methodologies involved in gender history;
2) Develop knowledge of cultural and social change in the period 1860-1960 through the prism of masculinity
3) Gain experience of using a wide range of source materials, including oral history interviews, diaries, letters, social research, newspapers and novels.

Learning outcomes
Students will learn to:
- analyse and interpret a range of relevant source materials, including personal documents, visual images and oral histories;
- analyse and critique relevant historiographic arguments;
- present clear historical arguments, in both written and oral form;
- engage effectively with a range of research methodologies, including cultural history and oral history.

Skills outcomes
Oral and written communication; handling diverse source materials, including personal documents and oral history interviews; ability to critique different histiographical approaches, including gender history, oral history, social history and cultural history.

Syllabus

Students will explore how masculinities and men’s experiences have changed across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Indicative topics include masculinities in the late nineteenth-century British empire; men in the Victorian home; men and masculinity during the world wars; work and unemployment in the interwar period; men’s family roles in interwar Britain; postwar class and affluence, men, family and the domestic in post-war Britain, changing sexualities and sex 1860-1960.

Teaching methods

Delivery type	Number	Length hours	Student hours
Seminar	11	2.00	22.00
Private study hours			178.00
Total Contact hours			22.00
Total hours (100hr per 10 credits)			200.00

Private study

- Reading to prepare for seminar
- Preparing presentation using primary source material
- Researching and writing assignments

Opportunities for Formative Feedback

Students will receive written formative feedback for the new 40% element on their first and second submissions. This will be in addition to the written assessment and final mark given once all three elements of the assignment have been submitted.

Methods of assessment

Coursework

Assessment type	Notes	% of formal assessment
Essay	3,000 word essay due by 12 noon Monday of exam week 2	60.00
Assignment	Blog Posts (3 x 500 words or alternative format such as 5 minute podcasts) Due Monday of weeks 4, 7 and 10	40.00
Total percentage (Assessment Coursework)		100.00

Normally resits will be assessed by the same methodology as the first attempt, unless otherwise stated

Reading list

The reading list is available from the Library website

Last updated: 06/01/2022

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