Manhood in America: A Cultural History

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Oxford University Press, 2006 - 322 pages
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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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Marriage changed all that— " the independence of woman is irrecoverably lost in the bonds of matrimony : if an unmarried woman is less constrained [ in America ] than elsewhere , a wife is subjected to stricter obligations .
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61 There's the lesser hero , a slightly younger and less vigorous boy who becomes our hero's apprentice ; the snob , the son of a gentleman , who is " lazy , ignorant , arrogant , and unwilling to work because he considers it beneath ...
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She painted a far less rosy portrait than Parsons did , given his expectation that a return to the nuclear family could ameliorate American men's restlessness . Nor did Mead buy Wylie's contention that the destruction of mother spelled ...

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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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Michael Kimmel is at SUNY at Stony Brook.

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TitleManhood in America: A Cultural History
AuthorMichael S. Kimmel
Edition2, illustrated
PublisherOxford University Press, 2006
Original fromthe University of Virginia
Digitized9 Jul 2008
ISBN0195181131, 9780195181135
Length322 pages
  
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