ISBN : 9780190612535
For more than three decades, the women's movement and its scholars have exhaustively studied women's complex history, roles, and struggles. In Manhood in America: A Cultural History, Fourth Edition, author Michael Kimmel argues that it is time for men to rediscover their own evolution. Drawing on a myriad of sources, he demonstrates that American men have been eternally frustrated by their efforts to keep up with constantly changing standards. Kimmel contends that men must follow the lead of the women's movement; it is only by mining their past for its best qualities and worst excesses that men will free themselves from the constraints of the masculine ideal.
Preface to the Fourth Edition
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part I: THE MAKING OF THE SELF-MADE MAN IN AMERICA, 1776-1865
Chapter 1: The Birth of the Self-Made Man
Chapter 2: Born to Run: Self-Control and Fantasies of Escape
Part II: THE UNMAKING OF THE SELF-MADE MAN AT THE TURN OF THE CENTURY
Chapter 3: Men at Work: Captains of Industry, White Collars, and the Faceless Crowd
Chapter 4: Playing for Keeps: Masculinity as Recreation and the Re-Creation of Masculinity
Chapter 5: A Room of His Own: Socializing the New Man
Part III: THE NEW MAN IN A NEW CENTURY, 1920-1950
Chapter 6: Muscles, Money, and the M--F Test: Measuring Masculinity Between the Wars
Chapter 7: Temporary About Myself: White-Collar Conformists and Suburban Playboys, 1945-1960
Part IV: THE CONTEMPORARY CRISIS OF MASCULINITY
Chapter 8: The Masculine Mystique
Chapter 9: Wimps, Whiners, and Weekend Warriors: The Contemporary Crisis of Masculinity and Beyond
Chapter 10: From Anxiety to Anger Since the 1990s: The Self-Made Man Becomes Angry White Men
Epilogue
Notes
Index
