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: title: Part 1. Making and unmaking the gentleman; title: Four faces of civilization, c.1530-1750; title: Balancing acts : the paradox of the gentleman; title: Part 2. Male bodies in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; title: The armor of health and the diseases of civilization; title: A diet of pleasures? : the incorporation of manhood; title: Building bodies : violence, pain and the nation; title: Part 3. The twentieth century and beyond; title: Modern primitives : manhood and metamorphosis around 1900; title: Men of steel : technologies of the male body; title: The last men? : consuming manhood since 1945; title: Conclusion: the return of the repressed.