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A man's place : masculinity and the middle-class home in Victorian England /

"John Tosh shows how profoundly men's lives were conditioned by the Victorian ideal, and how they negotiated its many contradictions." "Tosh begins by looking at the experience of boyhood, married life, sex and fatherhood in the early decades of the nineteenth century - illustrat...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Tosh, John
Format: Government Document Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, ©1999.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Preconditions. Middle-class household ; Ideal of domesticity
  • Climax of domesticity, c. 1830-1880. Husband and wife ; Father and child ; Boys into men ; Convivial pleasures and public duties
  • Domesticity under strain, c. 1870-1900. Decline of deference ; Flight from domesticity.