num_pages: 272
description: What does it mean to "be a man" in different cultures around the world? Anthropologist David D. Gilmore explores this question in  "a provocative, rewarding cross-cultural survey." ( Publishers Weekly )In the first cross-cultural study of manhood as an achieved status, anthropologist David D. Gilmore finds that a culturally sanctioned stress on manliness—on toughness and aggressiveness, stoicism and sexuality—is almost universal, deeply ingrained in the consciousness of hunters and fishermen, workers and warriors, poets and peasants who have little else in common.
language: English
title: Manhood in the Making: Cultural Concepts of Masculinity
titlecomplete: Manhood in the Making: Cultural Concepts of Masculinity
genres: Gender, Self Help, Philosophy, Cultural, Personal Development, Psychology, Nonfiction, Sociology, History, Anthropology
ratings_count: 177
publisher: Yale University Press