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Image of man : the creation of modern masculinity.
What does it mean to be a man? What does it mean to be manly? How has our notion of masculinity changed over the years? In this book, noted historian George L. Mosse provides the first historical account of the masculine stereotype in modern Western culture, tracing the evolution of the idea of manl...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cary :
Oxford University Press,
1996.
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| Colección: | Studies in the history of sexuality.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | What does it mean to be a man? What does it mean to be manly? How has our notion of masculinity changed over the years? In this book, noted historian George L. Mosse provides the first historical account of the masculine stereotype in modern Western culture, tracing the evolution of the idea of manliness to reveal how it came to embody physical beauty, courage, moral restraint, and a strong will. This stereotype, he finds, originated in the tumultuous changes of the eighteenth century, as Europe's dominant aristocrats grudgingly yielded to the rise of the professional, bureaucratic, and commer. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (252 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9780195352108 0195352106 0190284382 9780190284381 1280471867 9781280471865 0198026153 9780198026150 1602563381 9781602563384 |