The Trials of Masculinity- ANGUS MCLARE
Ideas of masculinity, which a generation ago seemed mostly unproblematic, have become a major subject of historical inquiry, and the period that has aroused the most extreme interest is the turn of the twentieth century, when a sense of crisis seized much of western Europe and The united states. In The Studies of Masculinity Angus McLaren seeks to increase these research. Geographically, he roams from western Canada and the United States to key Europe, with a concentration on England and Portugal. His subject is the social and cultural structure of the boundaries of normative masculinity--and the critical role in this process of the identification of various sorts of deviance. He identifies a selection of legal trials in which issues of proper masculine personality, conduct, and sexuality sharply emerged, and he makes use of these as points of entry into the swirl of opinions--popular and professional, legal, medical, and political--that such cases aroused.
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