Format:
Online-Ressource (232 p)
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ill
ISBN:
1280471867
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9781280471865
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9780198026150
Series Statement:
Studies in the history of sexuality
Content:
What does it mean to be a man? What does it mean to be manly? How has our notion of masculinity changed over the years? In this book, noted historian George L. Mosse provides the first historical account of the masculine stereotype in modern Western culture, tracing the evolution of the idea of manliness to reveal how it came to embody physical beauty, courage, moral restraint, and a strong will. This stereotype, he finds, originated in the tumultuous changes of the eighteenth century, as Europe's dominant aristocrats grudgingly yielded to the rise of the professional, bureaucratic, and commer
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [195]-217) and index
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""COVER PAGE""; ""TITLE PAGE""; ""COPYRIGHT PAGE""; ""ACKNOWLEDGMENTS""; ""CONTENTS""; ""1: INTRODUCTION: THE MASCULINE STEREOTYPE""; ""2: SETTING THE STANDARD""; ""3: GETTING THERE""; ""4: THE COUNTERTYPE""; ""5: MASCULINITY IN CRISIS: THE DECADENCE""; ""6: WARRIORS AND SOCIALISTS""; ""7: THE NORMAL SOCIETY OF MEN""; ""8: THE NEW FASCIST MAN""; ""9: TOWARD A NEW MASCULINITY?""; ""NOTES""; ""INDEX""
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1280471832
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780195126600
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780195101010
Additional Edition:
Print version Image of Man : The Creation of Modern Masculinity
Language:
English
