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

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"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 -- illustrated by case-...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Tosh, John (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New Haven, Connecticut ; London : Yale University Press, 2007.
Edition:[Paperback edition].
Subjects:
1800-1899
Men > England > History > 19th century.
Masculinity > England > History > 19th century.
Sex role > England > History > 19th century.
Middle class families > England > History > 19th century.
Hommes > Angleterre > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Masculinité > Angleterre > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Rôle selon le sexe > Angleterre > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Familles de la classe moyenne > Angleterre > Histoire > 19e siècle.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Men's Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Gender Studies.
Masculinity
Men
Middle class families
Sex role
England
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 1. The middle-class household
  • 2. The ideal of domesticity
  • 3. Husband and wife
  • 4. Father and child
  • 5. Boys into men
  • 6. Convivial pleasures and public duties
  • 7. The decline of deference
  • 8. The flight from domesticity
  • Conclusion.

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