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Author
Publisher
BasicBooks
Pub. Date
[1993]
Lexile measure
1350L
Language
English
Description
"In the first comprehensive history of American manhood, E. Anthony Rotundo sweeps away the groundless assumptions and myths that inform the current fascination with men's lives. Opposing the views of men's movement leaders and best-selling authors who maintain that manliness is eternal and unchanging, Rotundo stresses that our concept of manhood is man-made and that, like any human invention, it has a history. American Manhood is a fascinating account...
Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Building Boys offers tips and tools that parents can use to help boys move beyond persistent gender stereotypes to full humanity. Understanding, acknowledging, and respecting male development is key to facilitating boys' growth and making the world a safer place for humans of all genders."--
Confounded by rapidly changing gender norms, today's parents are attempting to raise kind, compassionate, emotionally sensitive boys in a society that simultaneously...
Author
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"The first, definitive recasting of George Washington in the context of eighteenth-century practices and ideals of masculinity. It answers the fundamental question that no biography has ever asked in such a direct way: What do we know, really, about Washington as an actual eighteenth-century Virginia upper-class male?"--
10) Transcribing class and gender: masculinity and femininity in nineteenth-century courts and offices
Author
Series
Publisher
University of Michigan Press
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
11) The making of the new Negro: Black authorship, masculinity, and sexuality in the Harlem Renaissance
Author
Series
Publisher
Amsterdam University Press
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Author
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"The legacies of Joseph McCarthy, J. Edgar Hoover, Roy Cohn seem like they might be with us forever. Yet Christopher Elias finds in them startling new connections between gender, sexuality, and national security in 20th-century US politics--a paradigm he christens "security state masculinity." Elias integrates biographies of the trio with a history of gossip magazines and their tactics--such as insinuation, guilt by association, hyperbole, and alarmism,...