Open AccessEthel Turner and the ‘Voices of Dissent’: Masculinities and Fatherhood in The Cub and Captain Cub
Author(s) -
Claudia Nelson
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
papers (victoria park)/papers
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1837-4530
pISSN - 1034-9243
DOI - 10.21153/pecl2003vol13no1art1292
Subject(s) - masculinity , dissent , gender studies , acculturation , sociology , psychology , political science , anthropology , politics , ethnic group , law
In his interesting study 'Making the Australian Male: Middle-Class Masculinity 1870-1920', Martin Crotty argues that turn-of-the-century Australians firmly rejected the androgynous, domesticated gender role that both children's fiction and the public schools had offered Australian boys in the 1870s... Work such as Crotty's should help to inspire any number of reexaminations of the masculine gender role in texts that sought to acculturate young readers before, during, and after the Great War.