The trials of masculinity : policing sexual boundaries 1870-1930

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The trials of masculinity : policing sexual boundaries 1870-1930

Angus McLaren

(The Chicago series on sexuality, history, and society)

University of Chicago Press, 1997

  • : cloth
  • : pbk

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Includes bibliographical references and index

内容説明・目次

巻冊次

: cloth ISBN 9780226500676

内容説明

In this history of manhood and masculinity, the author argues that modern formulations of masculinity, despite any sense of naturalness and constancy, are in fact, idealized cultural products of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He examines the process of social construction whereby this traditionalized model of the heterosexual male was selected, delineated, and maintained. The author focuses attention on two domains essential to the legitimation of Western cultural constructs - medicine and the law. Through court reports and newspaper accounts, McLaren shows how everyday people, not just the juridical elite, helped to define through their testimony an ideal of manhood and proper masculine behaviour. He then considers the medical world: psychiatrists and sexologists emerged as arbiters of sexual and gender differences, devising new categories of deficient masculinity - homosexuals, sadists, exhibitionists, and transvestites. Forming such deviant types required the medical community, he argues, to further demarcate a particular form of preferred masculinity.

目次

Acknowledgments Introduction Pt. 1: Masculinities 1: Deviants Pt. 2: Legal Discourses: Men, Melodrama, and Criminality 2: Fools 3: Cads 4: Gentlemen 5: Murderers Pt. 3: Medical Discourses: Weak Men and Perverts 6: Weaklings 7: Sadists 8: Exhibitionists 9: Transvestites Conclusions Notes Index
巻冊次

: pbk ISBN 9780226500683

内容説明

In this history of manhood and masculinity, the author argues that modern formulations of masculinity, despite any sense of naturalness and constancy, are in fact, idealized cultural products of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He examines the process of social construction whereby this traditionalized model of the heterosexual male was selected, delineated, and maintained. The author focuses attention on two domains essential to the legitimation of Western cultural constructs - medicine and the law. Through court reports and newspaper accounts, McLaren shows how everyday people, not just the juridical elite, helped to define through their testimony, an ideal of manhood and proper masculine behaviour. He then considers the medical world: psychiatrists and sexologists emerged as arbiters of sexual and gender differences, devising new categories of deficient masculinity - homosexuals, sadists, exhibitionists, and transvestites. Forming such deviant types required the medical community, he argues, to further demarcate a particular form of preferred masculinity.

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