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Record Nr.

UNINA9910808346503321

Autore

Kimmel Michael S

Titolo

The history of men : essays in the history of American and British masculinities / / Michael S. Kimmel

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2005

ISBN

0-7914-8382-7

1-4237-4376-8

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (273 p.)

Disciplina

305.31/0973

Soggetti

Men - United States

Men - Great Britain

Masculinity - United States

Masculinity - Great Britain

Sex role - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-251) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front Matter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Invisible Masculinity -- American Masculinities -- Born to Run -- Consuming Manhood -- Baseball and the Reconstitution of American Masculinity, 1880–1920 -- Men’s Responses to Feminism at the Turn of the Century -- The Cult of Masculinity -- From “Conscience and Common Sense” to “Feminism for Men” -- British Masculinities -- From Lord and Master to Cuckold and Fop -- Mundus Foppensis and the Levellers -- “Greedy Kisses” and “Melting Extasy” -- Love Letters Between a certain late Nobleman And the famous Mr. Wilson Discovering The True History of the Rise and surprising Grandeur of that celebrated Beau Printed for A. Moore, near St. Paul London, 1745 (originally published, 1723) -- Notes -- References -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

In this collection, one of the world's leading scholars in the field of masculinity studies explores the historical construction of American and British masculinities. Tracing the emergence of American and British masculinities, the forms they have taken, and their development over time, Michael S. Kimmel analyzes the various ways that the ideology of masculinity—the cultural meaning of manhood—has been



shaped by the course of historical events, and, in turn, how ideas about masculinity have also served to shape those historical events. He also considers newly emerging voices of previously marginalized groups such as women, the working class, people of color, gay men, and lesbians to explore the marginalized and de-centered notions of masculinity and the political processes and dynamics that have enabled this marginalization to occur.