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In a startling, original study, Kimmel, a professor of sociology at the State University of New York, makes a persuasive case that manhood has been a constantly changing social construct in American culture. Once rooted in genteel land-ownership or in the pride of independent artisans, shopkeepers and farmers, manhood was transformed by the industrial revolution, which made American males, by the mid-19th century, insecure, mobile, competitive, chronically restive and seeking a sense of themselves as men through their economic success. Men attempted to prove their manliness through sports, business, bodybuilding, clothes, fraternal organizations, participation in two world wars and the Depression ("emasculating both at work and at home"). In 1936, Lewis Terman, inventor of the IQ test, introduced a sexist "M-F scale" that supposedly measured children's masculinity and femininity and their likelihood of "successfully" acquiring gender identity. Men today, observes Kimmel, spout angry antifeminist rhetoric in men's rights groups, or beat a defensive retreat via the men's movement's embrace of cosmic archetypes. Drawing on a wealth of material?advice manuals, union struggles, the symbolism of presidential campaigns, Tocqueville, Thoreau, contemporary films, novels and men's magazines?Kimmel's humane, pathbreaking study points the way toward a redefinition of manhood that combines strength with nurturing, personal accountability, compassion and egalitarianism. Photos.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Kimmel, a noted men's studies authority, coeditor of Against the Tide (LJ 2/1/92), and editor of The Politics of Manhood, reviewed below, presents in his own words the first cultural history of men in America. He examines how the manhood experience has not only defined American males but has also shaped the culture and livelihood of its members. Kimmel states the key driving force in men throughout history has been to prove their masculinity. He examines how this phenomenon has changed over time along with the masculine ideal and other transfigurations that must coexist with it. Holding up the model of the "self-made man" of American myth and legend for analysis, Kimmel describes the legend's birth prior to the Civil War and its lasting impact until the close of the 19th century. As the new millennium approaches, the author contemplates the contemporary crisis of masculinity. A core title for men's studies and gender studies collections alike.?Michael A. Lutes, Univ. of Notre Dame Lib., Ind.
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Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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artisanal manhood, last real man, cultural feminization, democratic manhood, heroic artisans, profeminist men, masculine domesticity, suburban men, southern manhood, lost manhood, masculine mystique, men among men, male liberation, male sex role, wimp factor, traditional masculinity Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Heroic Artisan, United States, Genteel Patriarch, Theodore Roosevelt, Van Buren, Van Rough, Native American, Boy Scouts, Greenwich Village, Stanley Hall, World War, Bernarr Macfadden, Muscular Christians, New England, Owen Wister, Andrew Jackson, Billy Sunday, Red Men, Betty Friedan, Charles Atlas, Colonel Manly, Davy Crockett, Frederic Remington, George Washington New!
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artisanal manhood, last real man, cultural feminization, democratic manhood, heroic artisans, profeminist men, masculine domesticity, suburban men, southern manhood, lost manhood, masculine mystique, men among men, male liberation, male sex role, wimp factor, traditional masculinity Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Heroic Artisan, United States, Genteel Patriarch, Theodore Roosevelt, Van Buren, Van Rough, Native American, Boy Scouts, Greenwich Village, Stanley Hall, World War, Bernarr Macfadden, Muscular Christians, New England, Owen Wister, Andrew Jackson, Billy Sunday, Red Men, Betty Friedan, Charles Atlas, Colonel Manly, Davy Crockett, Frederic Remington, George Washington New!
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