Masculinity in the modern west
Subtitle: gender, civilization and the body
By: Christopher E. Forth.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Subjects: Body, Human -- Social aspects.; Masculinity.; Men -- Identity.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: value: Part 1. Making and unmaking the gentleman; value: Four faces of civilization, c.1530-1750; value: Balancing acts : the paradox of the gentleman; value: Part 2. Male bodies in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; value: The armor of health and the diseases of civilization; value: A diet of pleasures? : the incorporation of manhood; value: Building bodies : violence, pain and the nation; value: Part 3. The twentieth century and beyond; value: Modern primitives : manhood and metamorphosis around 1900; value: Men of steel : technologies of the male body; value: The last men? : consuming manhood since 1945; value: Conclusion: the return of the repressed.