MARC Record from Library of Congress

LEADER: 01678cam a22003018a 4500
001 2008015904
003 DLC
005 20080505085851.0
008 080409s2008 nyu 001 0 eng
010 $a 2008015904
020 $a1403912408 (alk. paper)
020 $a1403912416 (alk. paper)
040 $aDLC$cDLC$dDLC
050 00 $aHM636$b.F67 2008
082 00 $a306.4$222
100 1 $aForth, Christopher E.
245 10 $aMasculinity in the modern west :$bgender, civilization and the body /$cChristopher E. Forth.
260 $aNew York :$bPalgrave Macmillan,$c2008.
263 $a0810
300 $ap. cm.
500 $aIncludes index.
505 0 $aPart 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.
650 0 $aBody, Human$xSocial aspects.
650 0 $aMasculinity.
650 0 $aMen$xIdentity.
856 42 $3Contributor biographical information$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0829/2008015904-b.html
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0829/2008015904-d.html
856 41 $3Table of contents only$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0829/2008015904-t.html