Meanings for Manhood

The stereotype of the Victorian man as a flinty, sexually repressed patriarch belies the remarkably wide variety of male behaviors and conceptions of manhood during the mid- to late- nineteenth century. A complex pattern of alternative and even competing behaviors and attitudes emerges in this important collection of essays that points toward a "gendered history" of men.

• | Author: Mark C. Carnes
• | Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• | Publication Date: Oct 15, 1990
• | Number of Pages: 287 pages
• | Binding: Paperback or Softback
• | ISBN-10: 0226093654
• | ISBN-13: 9780226093659