Manhood in the Making : Cultural Concepts of Masculinity

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Manhood in the Making : Cultural Concepts of Masculinity by David D. Gilmore, 9780300050769
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  • ISBN: 9780300050769 | 0300050763
  • Cover: Trade Paper
  • Copyright: 7/24/1991

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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.
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