Manhood in America A Cultural History

Name: Manhood in America A Cultural History
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ISBN: 9780199781553

ISBN-10: 0199781559

ISBN-13: 9780199781553

Edition: 3rd 2012

Authors: Michael Kimmel

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Book details

List price: $49.95
Edition: 3rd
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 3/4/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 392
Size: 6.18" wide x 9.21" long x 0.98" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English



Preface to the Third Edition


Acknowledgments


Introduction: Toward a History of Manhood in America



The Making of the Self-Made Man in America, 1776-1865



The Birth of the Self-Made Man



Born to Run: Self-Control and Fantasies of Escape



The Unmaking of the Self-Made Man at the Turn of the Century



Men at Work: Captains of Industry, White Collars, and the Faceless Crowd



Playing for Keeps: Masculinity as Recreation and the Re-Creation of Masculinity



A Room of His Own: Socializing the New Man



The New Man in a New Century, 1920-1950



Muscles, Money, and the M-F Test; Measuring Masculinity Between the Wars



ï¿½Temporary About Myselfï¿½: White-Collar Conformists and Suburban Playboys, 1945-1960



Contemporary ï¿½Crisisï¿½ of Masculinity



The Masculine Mystique



Wimps, Whiners, and Weekend Warriors: The Contemporary Crisis of Masculinity and Beyond



From Anxiety to Anger Since the 1990s: The ï¿½Self-Made Manï¿½ Becomes ï¿½Angry White Menï¿½


Epilogue


Notes


Index