Fidgets, Scoundrels and Mummy's Boys: Performing Masculinity in the Victorian House of Commons

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• Dr Ben Griffin, Girton College, Cambridge
• Tuesday 11 March 2014, 17:45-19:15
• Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

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This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

This paper examines the gendered political culture of the Victorian House of Commons by looking at the efforts that politicians made to appear ‘manly’. This culture had very real political significance: it shaped the interactions between politicians, it shaped their public images, and it underpinned the opposition to admitting women as members of parliament.

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