Masculinity and political geographies in England, Ireland and North America

Reading for gender

“…12 Kane triangulates three kinds of men and argues that conflict over the nature of manhood drove England's imperial expansion into North America and Ireland in the Elizabethan and early Stuart reigns. Teasing out the differences in the English visual and literary representations of Indian and Irish men, he anatomises the high stakes that drove the conquerors, who had been thwarted from exercising their martial capabilities in the European theatre of war and so were forced back on what was to hand in Virginia and Ireland.…”