Masculinity and the Wounds of the First World War: A Centenary Reflection

Abstract

In the year of the centenary of the First World War, it is timely to reflect upon the rise of masculinity studies and its impact on the historiography of Britain’s military culture and the changing landscape of focused studies of the war. To be sure, many historians now regard gender and war as ‘inevitably intertwined’, as Alison Fell recently argued. In this essay, I will examine the historiography of the First World War, as it relates to the study of military masculinities, the rising schol...