Manhood in the Making: Cultural Concepts of Masculinity

Manhood in the Making: Cultural Concepts of Masculinity
ISBN-10
0300046464
ISBN-13
9780300046465
Category
Social Science
Pages
272
Language
English
Published
1990-01-01
Publisher
Yale University Press
Author
David D. Gilmore

Description

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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