What Is Masculinity?: Historical Dynamics from Antiquity to the Contemporary World

Book Overview

Across history, the ideas and practices of male identity have varied much between time and place: masculinity proves to be a slippery concept, not available to all men, sometimes even applied to women. This book analyses the dynamics of 'masculinity' as both an ideology and lived experience - how men have tried, and failed, to be 'Real Men'.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1137305606
• ISBN13: 9781137305602
• Release Date: June 2011
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 461 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.1"