Masculinity in the Modern West: Gender, Civilization and the Body by Forth, C.

Masculinity in the Modern West: Gender, Civilization and the Body (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781403912411)

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Masculinity in the Modern West: Gender, Civilization and the Body by Forth, C.

Masculinity in the Modern West: Gender, Civilization and the Body

$59.99
Masculinity in the Modern West: Gender, Civilization and the Body by Forth, C.

Masculinity in the Modern West: Gender, Civilization and the Body

$59.99
Format: Paperback
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What does it mean to be a man? To be manly? How has this changed throughout history? This text examines the manly stereotype, which stresses courage and athletic comportment, which from the 18th century onwards became representative of normative modern society.

Author: C. Forth
ISBN-10: 1403912416
ISBN-13: 9781403912411
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 09/16/2008
Pages: 285
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.70d

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Choice 12/01/2009
By C. Forth
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CHRISTOPHER E. FORTH is the Howard Professor of Humanities& Western Civilization at the University of Kansas. His books include Zarathustra in Paris: The Nietzsche Vogue in France, 1891-1918, The Dreyfus Affair and the Crisis of French Manhood, and (co-edited with Bertrand Taithe) French Masculinities: History, Politics and Culture.

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