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Masculinity in the modern west : gender, civilization and the body /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Forth, Christopher E.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
Subjects:
Human body > Social aspects.
Masculinity.
Men > Identity.
Online Access:Contributor biographical information
Publisher description
Table of contents only
Table of Contents:
  • Part one : making and unmaking the gentleman
  • Four faces of civilization, c.1500-1750
  • Balancing acts : the paradox of the gentleman
  • Part two : 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 three : 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.