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 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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... early nineteenth - century American life noticed the shift immediately . One of the most popular tracts of the 1830s was Thomas Hunt's The Book of Wealth ( 1836 ) , which went through several printings while proving to its readers that ...
... early nineteenth - century American life noticed the shift immediately . One of the most popular tracts of the 1830s was Thomas Hunt's The Book of Wealth ( 1836 ) , which went through several printings while proving to its readers that ...
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... early industrial societies , on both sides of the Atlantic . What was new - and distinctly American — were the strictness and the degree to which women and men were now seen as having a separate sphere . The home became entirely the ...
... early industrial societies , on both sides of the Atlantic . What was new - and distinctly American — were the strictness and the degree to which women and men were now seen as having a separate sphere . The home became entirely the ...
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... early fraternalists , 1850. Bottom : Rocky Hill Lodge Knights of Pythias Degree Team , Portland , Maine , early twentieth century . ( Both courtesy of Scottish Rite Masonic Museum of Our National Heritage [ 80.45 and 84.6 ] ...
... early fraternalists , 1850. Bottom : Rocky Hill Lodge Knights of Pythias Degree Team , Portland , Maine , early twentieth century . ( Both courtesy of Scottish Rite Masonic Museum of Our National Heritage [ 80.45 and 84.6 ] ...
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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