01576nam a2200265 a 4500 15253985 090908s2008 nyu 001 0 eng d 2008015904 1403912408 (alk. paper) 1403912416 (alk. paper) DLC DLC DLC 306.4 22 Forth, Christopher E. Masculinity in the modern west : gender, civilization and the body / Christopher E. Forth. New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. xi, 285 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Includes index. Part 1. Making and unmaking the gentleman -- Four faces of civilization, c.1530-1750 -- Balancing acts : the paradox of the gentleman -- Part 2. Male bodies in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries -- The armor of health and the diseases of civilization -- A diet of pleasures? : the incorporation of manhood -- Building bodies : violence, pain and the nation -- Part 3. The twentieth century and beyond -- Modern primitives : manhood and metamorphosis around 1900 -- Men of steel : technologies of the male body -- The last men? : consuming manhood since 1945 -- Conclusion: the return of the repressed. Human body Social aspects. Masculinity. Men Identity. 3984 3984 0 0 ddc 0 0 BRACUL BRACUL GEN 2009-09-07 Trust Line International 4 2 306.4 FOR 3010019243 2026-03-01 2026-02-22 1 2009-09-17 BK