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Manhood in the Making: Cultural Concepts of Masculinity

By David D. Gilmore

Book information

Publisher
Yale University Press
Year
1991
ISBN
0300050763, 9780300050769
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
9 MB (8987989 bytes)
Edition
Revised ed.
Pages
272\280
Time added
2021-04-24 07:13:17

Description

What does it mean to "be a man" in different cultures around the world? "Absorbing, well-argued, and finely written."—Nicola Shulman, Sunday Times, London In the first cross-cultural study of manhood as an achieved status, anthropologist David D. Gilmore finds that a culturally sanctioned stress on manliness—on toughness and aggressiveness, stoicism and sexuality—is almost universal, deeply ingrained in the consciousness of hunters and fishermen, workers and warriors, poets and peasants who have little else in common.

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