| Manhood in the Making: Cultural Concepts of Masculinity Revised Edition Contributor(s): Gilmore, David D. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0300050763 ISBN-13: 9780300050769 Publisher: Yale University Press OUR PRICE: $27.67 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 1991 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Men's Studies - Psychology | Human Sexuality (see Also Social Science - Human Sexuality) |
| Dewey: 155.332 |
| Physical Information: 0.86" H x 5.39" W x 8.2" (0.72 lbs) 272 pages |
| Themes: - Sex & Gender - Masculine |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: What does it mean to "be a man" in different cultures around the world? Anthropologist David D. Gilmore explores this question in "a provocative, rewarding cross-cultural survey." (Publishers Weekly) 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. |