Table of contents for Masculinity in the modern west : gender, civilization and the body / Christopher E. Forth.


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Introduction: Beneath the Veneer of Civilization * PART I: MAKING AND UNMAKING THE GENTLEMAN * Four Faces of Civilization Balancing Acts: The Paradox of the Gentleman * PART II: PERSONAL AND NATIONAL BODIES * The Armor of Health and the Diseases of Civilization A Diet of Pleasures? * The Incorporation of Manhood Building Bodies: Violence, Pain and the Nation * PART III: MANHOOD AND METAMORPHOSIS * Modern Primitives: Manhood and Metamorphosis * Men of Steel: Technologies of the Male Body The Last Men? * Consuming Manhood in the Postwar World * Conclusion: The Return of the Repressed
Introduction: Beneath the Veneer of Civilization * PART I: MAKING AND UNMAKING THE GENTLEMAN * Four Faces of Civilization Balancing Acts: The Paradox of the Gentleman * PART II: PERSONAL AND NATIONAL BODIES * The Armor of Health and the Diseases of Civilization A Diet of Pleasures? * The Incorporation of Manhood Building Bodies: Violence, Pain and the Nation * PART III: MANHOOD AND METAMORPHOSIS * Modern Primitives: Manhood and Metamorphosis * Men of Steel: Technologies of the Male Body The Last Men? * Consuming Manhood in the Postwar World * Conclusion: The Return of the Repressed


Library of Congress subject headings for this publication:
Body, Human -- Social aspects.
Masculinity.
Men -- Identity.