Meanings for Manhood: Constructions of Masculinity in Victorian America

Meanings for Manhood Carnes Mark C. Wydawca: The University of Chicago Press Data wydania: 1990 ISBN: 9780226093659 Liczba stron: 287 Format: 160 x 267 x 24 Rodzaj oprawy: Paperback / softback Opis produktu: The stereotype of the Victorian man as a sexually repressed patriarch belies the wide variety of male behaviors and conceptions of manhood during the mid to late nineteenth century. A complex pattern of alternative and even competing behaviors and attitudes emerges in this collection of essays that points toward a gendered history of men.