Meanings for Manhood: Constructions of Masculinity in Victorian America

by Carnes (Author)

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  Paperback
  1990

  $32.77

  The stereotype of the Victorian man as a sexually repressed patriarch belies the 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 collection of essays that points toward a gendered history of men.