Download or read book Men on trial written by Katie Barclay and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2018-11-12 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Men on Trial provides the first history of masculinity and the law in early nineteenth-century Ireland. It combines cutting-edge theories from the history of emotion, performativity and gender studies to argue for gender as a creative and productive force in determining legal and social power relationships.