Full Description
For more than three decades, the women's movement and its scholars have exhaustively studied women's complex history, roles, and struggles. In Manhood in America: A Cultural History, Fourth Edition, author Michael Kimmel argues that it is time for men to rediscover their own evolution. Drawing on a myriad of sources, he demonstrates that American men have been eternally frustrated by their efforts to keep up with constantly changing standards. Kimmelcontends that men must follow the lead of the women's movement; it is only by mining their past for its best qualities and worst excesses that men will free themselves from the constraints of the masculine ideal.
Contents
Preface to the Fourth EditionAcknowledgementsIntroductionChapter 1: The Birth of the Self-Made ManChapter 2: Born to Run: Self-Control and Fantasies of EscapeChapter 3: Men at Work: Captains of Industry, White Collars, and the Faceless CrowdChapter 4: Playing for Keeps: Masculinity as Recreation and the Re-Creation of MasculinityChapter 5: A Room of His Own: Socializing the New ManPart III: THE NEW MAN IN A NEW CENTURY, 1920-1950Chapter 6: Muscles, Money, and the M--F Test: Measuring Masculinity Between the WarsChapter 7: "Temporary About Myself": White-Collar Conformists and Suburban Playboys, 1945-1960Part IV: THE CONTEMPORARY "CRISIS" OF MASCULINITYChapter 8: The Masculine MystiqueChapter 9: Wimps, Whiners, and Weekend Warriors: The Contemporary Crisis of Masculinity and BeyondChapter 10: From Anxiety to Anger Since the 1990s: The "Self-Made Man" Becomes "Angry White Men"EpilogueNotesIndex
