Manhood in America : A Cultural History
ISBN: 9780199781553 | 0199781559
Edition: 3rdFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pub. Date: 3/4/2011
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For more than three decades, the women's movement and its scholars have exhaustively studied women's complex history, roles, and struggles. InManhood in America, Third Edition, author Michael Kimmel argues that it is time for men to rediscover their own evolution. Drawing on a myriad of sources,he demonstrates that American men have been eternally frustrated by their efforts to keep up with constantly changing standards. Kimmel contends that men must follow the lead of the women's movement; it is only by mining their past for its best qualities... MORE
| Preface to the Third Edition | p. ix |
| Acknowledgments | p. xiii |
| Introduction: Toward a History of Manhood in America | p. 1 |
| The Making of the Self-Made Man in America, 1776-1865 | p. 9 |
| The Birth of the Self-Made Man | p. 11 |
| Born to Run: Self-Control and Fantasies of Escape | p. 32 |
| The Unmaking of the Self-Made Man at the Turn of the Century | p. 59 |
| Men at Work: Captains of... MORE | p. 61 |
| Playing for Keeps: Masculinity as Recreation and the Re-Creation of Masculinity | p. 87 |
| A Room of His Own: Socializing the New Man | p. 115 |
| The New Man in a New Century, 1920-1950 | p. 137 |
| Muscles, Money, and the M-F Test; Measuring Masculinity Between the Wars | p. 139 |
| ôTemporary About Myselfö: White-Collar Conformists and Suburban Playboys, 1945-1960 | p. 161 |
| Contemporary ôCrisisö of Masculinity | p. 187 |
| The Masculine Mystique | p. 189 |
| Wimps, Whiners, and Weekend Warriors: The Contemporary Crisis of Masculinity and Beyond | p. 211 |
| From Anxiety to Anger Since the 1990s: The ôSelf-Made Manö Becomes ôAngry White Menö | p. 238 |
| Epilogue | p. 283 |
| Notes | p. 299 |
| Index | p. 345 |
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Michael Kimmel is Professor of Sociology at Stony Brook University, State University of New York. A leading researcher and writer on gender and men and masculinity, he is the author of numerous books and articles, including The Gendered Society, Fourth Edition (OUP, 2010), The Gendered Society Reader, Fourth Edition (with Amy Aronson, OUP, 2010), and Guyland: The Perilous World Where Boys Become Men (2009).
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