Masculinity in the modern west : gender, civilization and the body
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Masculinity in the modern west : gender, civilization and the body
Palgrave Macmillan, 2008
- : hardback
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents of Works
- Part 1. Making and unmaking the gentleman
- Four faces of civilization, c.1530-1750
- Balancing acts : the paradox of the gentleman
- Part 2. Male bodies in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries
- The armor of health and the diseases of civilization
- A diet of pleasures? : the incorporation of manhood
- Building bodies : violence, pain and the nation
- Part 3. The twentieth century and beyond
- Modern primitives : manhood and metamorphosis around 1900
- Men of steel : technologies of the male body
- The last men? : consuming manhood since 1945
- Conclusion: the return of the repressed