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Beschreibung
What does it mean to be a man? To be manly? How has this changed throughout history? This text examines the manly stereotype, which stresses courage and athletic comportment, which from the 18th century onwards became representative of normative modern society.
What does it mean to be a man? To be manly? How has this changed throughout history? This text examines the manly stereotype, which stresses courage and athletic comportment, which from the 18th century onwards became representative of normative modern society.
Über den Autor
CHRISTOPHER E. FORTH is the Howard Professor of Humanities& Western Civilization at the University of Kansas. His books include Zarathustra in Paris: The Nietzsche Vogue in France, 1891-1918, The Dreyfus Affair and the Crisis of French Manhood, and (co-edited with Bertrand Taithe) French Masculinities: History, Politics and Culture.
Zusammenfassung
Presents a critical reinterpretation of masculinity and the male body in the Western world since 1700.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction: Civilization and its Malcontents PART I: MAKING AND UNMAKING THE GENTLEMAN Four Faces of Civilization, c.1530-1750 Balancing Acts: The Paradox of the Gentleman PART II: 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 III: 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
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2008
Fachbereich: Allgemeines
Genre: Geschichte, Importe
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Thema: Lexika
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: xi
285 S.
ISBN-13: 9781403912411
ISBN-10: 1403912416
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Forth, C.
Hersteller: Palgrave MacMillan UK
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, D-69121 Heidelberg, juergen.hartmann@springer.com
Maße: 231 x 155 x 18 mm
Von/Mit: C. Forth
Erscheinungsdatum: 16.09.2008
Gewicht: 0,454 kg
Artikel-ID: 102030843