Public Men offers an introduction to an exciting new field: the history of masculinities in the political domain. By building upon new work on gender and political culture, these new case studies explore the gendering of the political domain and the masculinities of the men who have historically dominated it.

FRANCIS DODSWORTH Research Fellow in the ESRC Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change, The Open University, UK KIT GOOD PhD graduate and formerly Research Associate, University of Liverpool, UK CATRIONA KENNEDY Research Fellow at the Centre for Eighteenth-Century Studies, University of York, UK SHINO KONISHI Lecturer, Koori Centre, University of Sydney, Australia MATTHEW MCCORMACK Senior Lecturer in History, University of Northampton, UK MATTHEW ROBERTS Research Fellow in History, Sheffield Hallam University, UK LUCY ROBINSON Lecturer in History at the University of Sussex, UK RUTH CLAYTON WINDSCHEFFEL Julia Mann Junior Research Fellow in History, St Hilda's College, Oxford, UK