Masculinity in the Modern West: Gender, Civilization and the Body (Hardcover)

Introduction: Civilization and its Malcontents PART I: MAKING AND UNMAKING THE GENTLEMAN Four Faces of Civilization, c.1530-1750 Balancing Acts: The Paradox of the Gentleman PART II: 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 III: 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