Manhood in America: A Cultural HistoryFor 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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28 Popular magazines and books curried masculine resentment and resistance
— not only in soft-core pornography, which boomed during the 1970s {Playboy
and Penthouse became two of the five top-selling magazines in the country), but
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28 Popular magazines and books curried masculine resentment and resistance
— not only in soft-core pornography, which boomed during the 1970s {Playboy
and Penthouse became two of the five top-selling magazines in the country), but
...
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The quote from John Lennon is from an interview in Newsweek, October 1978. 4.
For an example, see Alan Alda's writing in support of feminism in Ms. magazine,
especially his "Why Should Men Care?" and "What Women Should Know About ...
The quote from John Lennon is from an interview in Newsweek, October 1978. 4.
For an example, see Alan Alda's writing in support of feminism in Ms. magazine,
especially his "Why Should Men Care?" and "What Women Should Know About ...
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302CIOn20 Penthouse magazine, 182 Perhaps Women, 1 32 Perot, H. Ross,
196 Perrin, Noel, 194 Persian Gulf War. 197 Peters, Madison, 57 Philippine
Islands. 76. 121, 129 Phillips, Wendell. 48 A Philosophy of Labor, 158 Physical
Culture, ...
302CIOn20 Penthouse magazine, 182 Perhaps Women, 1 32 Perot, H. Ross,
196 Perrin, Noel, 194 Persian Gulf War. 197 Peters, Madison, 57 Philippine
Islands. 76. 121, 129 Phillips, Wendell. 48 A Philosophy of Labor, 158 Physical
Culture, ...
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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 |
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