Bibliograph

Masculinity in the modern west, gender, civilization and the body, Christopher E. Forth

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Masculinity in the modern west, gender, civilization and the body, Christopher E. Forth

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 238-277) and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Masculinity in the modern west

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

706805995

Responsibility statement

Christopher E. Forth

Sub title

gender, civilization and the body

Table Of Contents

Part one :, making and unmaking the gentleman -- Four faces of civilization, c.1500-1750 -- Balancing acts : the paradox of the gentleman -- Part two : male bodies in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries -- The, armor of health and the diseases of civilization -- A, diet of pleasures? : the incorporation of manhood -- Building bodies : violence, pain and the nation -- Part three : the twentieth century and beyond -- Modern primitives : manhood and metamorphosis around 1900 -- Men of steel : technologies of the male body -- The, last men? : consuming manhood since 1945 -- Conclusion : the return of the repressed

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