Manhood in America: A Cultural HistoryOxford University Press, 2006 - 322 pages For more than three decades, the women's movement and its scholars have exhaustively studied women's complex history, roles, and struggles. In Manhood in America, Second Edition, author Michael S. Kimmel--a leading authority in gender studies--argues that it is time for men to rediscover their own evolution. Drawing on a myriad of sources, including advice books, magazine columns, political pamphlets, and popular novels and films, he demonstrates that American men have been eternally frustrated by their efforts to keep up with constantly changing standards. Kimmel contends that men must follow the lead of the women's movement; it is only by mining their past for its best qualities and worst excesses that men will free themselves from the constraints of the masculine ideal. Condensed and revised in this second edition, Manhood in America features updated chapters and examples that extend its coverage through the present Bush administration. Touching on issues of masculinity as they pertain to current events, the book discusses such timely topics as post-9/11 politics, "self-made" masculinities (including those of Internet entrepreneurs), presidential campaigns, and gender politics. It also covers contemporary debates about fatherlessness, the biology of male aggression, and pop psychologists like John Gray and Dr. Laura. Outlining the various ways in which manhood has been constructed and portrayed in America, this engaging history is ideal as a main text for courses on masculinity or as a supplementary text for courses in gender studies and cultural history. |
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... argued : Our statistician boasts that Ohio has men of greater height ... than England , Belgium or Scotland , and in breadth of chest nearly equal to that of Scotland , and above all others . I do not offer myself as a specimen ...
... argued : Our statistician boasts that Ohio has men of greater height ... than England , Belgium or Scotland , and in breadth of chest nearly equal to that of Scotland , and above all others . I do not offer myself as a specimen ...
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... arguments in the guise of protecting women from the injurious effects of education beyond their biological capacities . The result of college education , Clarke argued , was that women were losing their ability to breed , developing ...
... arguments in the guise of protecting women from the injurious effects of education beyond their biological capacities . The result of college education , Clarke argued , was that women were losing their ability to breed , developing ...
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... argued that men were list- less , lifeless , enervated , feminized . Psychologically , they claimed that this was because men were not adequately separated from their mothers . The absence of the father at home and the disappearance of ...
... argued that men were list- less , lifeless , enervated , feminized . Psychologically , they claimed that this was because men were not adequately separated from their mothers . The absence of the father at home and the disappearance of ...
Contents
The Birth of the SelfMade Man | 11 |
SelfControl and Fantasies of Escape | 30 |
Captains of Industry White Collars and | 57 |
Copyright | |
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