Title: Proposing men
First published: 1998
Description: Simultaneously challenging conventional-male-dominated thought and revisionist modern feminism, this book argues that gendered identities can best be conceived relationally, and thus that a fuller understanding of gender roles in the eighteenth century (and by extension in our own) must include an analysis of men's place in the discourse of domesticity.

Examining the phenomenal rise of the social periodical at the end of the seventeenth century, the author theorizes the genre's crucial contribution to the construction of a class-specific gender identity that succeeds as ideology not, as usually assumed, by separating the feminine private sphere from the masculine public one, but by delineating the private as an important locus of masculine control.
Subjects: History and criticism, English prose literature, History, Masculinity in literature, English essays, English periodicals, Literature and society, Male authors, Gender identity in literature, Sex role in literature, Men in literature, Social classes in literature, Zeitschrift, Geschlechterrolle, Sexualitat, English essays, history and criticism, English prose literature, history and criticism
Places: Great Britain
Time periods: 18th century
LC classification: PR925 .M32 1998