Manhood in the Making

Cultural Concepts of Masculinity

Author: David D. Gilmore
ISBN: 9780300050769

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.

Publisher: Yale University Press
Publish Date: 1990

Subjects: Psychology / Human Sexuality, Social Science / Men's Studies

This book is available in the following Community Centers: Women's Center (Location: Men/Masculinities)