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

by Christopher E. Forth

Book Overview

Across the Western world "crisis" is the word most commonly used to describe the state of masculinity today, but how new is this idea? Can we identify a time when masculinity was actually stable and secure? Masculinity in the Modern West engages with these questions by examining how traditional ideals about male physical prowess have clashed with the lifestyle changes that accompanied the rise of modern civilization since 1700. In countries like America,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1403912408
• ISBN13: 9781403912404
• Release Date: September 2008
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 285 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"