What is Masculinity? : Historical Dynamics from Antiquity to the Contemporary World.
Across history, the ideas and practices of male identity have varied much between time and place: masculinity proves to be a slippery concept, not available to all men, sometimes even applied to women. This book analyses the dynamics of 'masculinity' as both an ideology and lived experienc...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Basingstoke :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2011.
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| Series: | Genders and sexualities in history.
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| Summary: | Across history, the ideas and practices of male identity have varied much between time and place: masculinity proves to be a slippery concept, not available to all men, sometimes even applied to women. This book analyses the dynamics of 'masculinity' as both an ideology and lived experience - how men have tried, and failed, to be 'Real Men'. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (477 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9780230307254 0230307256 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |