An edition of Masculinity in the modern west: gender, civilization and the body
(2008)
Masculinity in the modern west
gender, civilization and the body
by Christopher E. Forth
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Table of Contents
Part 1. Making and unmaking the gentleman
Four faces of civilization, c.1530-1750
Balancing acts : the paradox of the gentleman
Part 2. Male bodies in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries
The armor of health and the diseases of civilization
A diet of pleasures? : the incorporation of manhood
Building bodies : violence, pain and the nation
Part 3. The twentieth century and beyond
Modern primitives : manhood and metamorphosis around 1900
Men of steel : technologies of the male body
The last men? : consuming manhood since 1945
Conclusion: the return of the repressed.
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