The trials of masculinity : policing sexual boundaries, 1870-1930
Angus McLaren (Author)
How do we define the question, "What makes a man?" and why are we compelled to define the term at all? Modern perceptions of masculinity, despite the sense of naturalness and constancy with which we view them, are in fact the idealized cultural products of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In this pathbreaking history of manhood and masculinity, Angus McLaren convincingly defends this assertion, and cogently examines how society selected, delineated, and maintained an accepted traditional model of the heterosexual male
History
viii, 307 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780226500676, 9780226500690, 9780226500683, 0226500675, 0226500691, 0226500683
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Acknowledgments Introduction Pt. 1: Masculinities 1: Deviants Pt. 2: Legal Discourses: Men, Melodrama, and Criminality 2: Fools 3: Cads 4: Gentlemen 5: Murderers Pt. 3: Medical Discourses: Weak Men and Perverts 6: Weaklings 7: Sadists 8: Exhibitionists 9: Transvestites Conclusions Notes Index