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, |
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Workers increasingly seemed to lose control of their labor and the production process , which was transferred upward to a new class of managers and supervisors . New technological advances sped up production but invaded men's sphere of ...
Workers increasingly seemed to lose control of their labor and the production process , which was transferred upward to a new class of managers and supervisors . New technological advances sped up production but invaded men's sphere of ...
Other workers used prostitution as a metaphor for wage labor , as men were forced to sell their bodies to the capitalist in the same way that a prostitute sells her body to her well - heeled customer . Unemployment emasculated men who ...
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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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