Tabla de Contenidos:
  • "To be a man is hard" : masculinities and life histories
  • Children and childhood : work and play, 1900-1930
  • Forms of education : apprenticeships and schools, 1919-1947
  • The employment of men : clerks, police, soldiers, and teachers, 1930-1951
  • The marriages of men : sexuality and fatherhood, 1930-1970
  • Speaking sensibly : men as elders in the twentieth century
  • Epilogue : "No condition is permanent"
  • Postscript.