Manhood in the Making - Cultural Concepts of Masculinity

David D. Gilmore

Yale University Press

1991

272 páginas

9h 4m

ISBN-10: 0300050763

In this cross-cultural study of manhood as an achieved status, the author finds that a culturally sanctioned stress on manliness - on toughness and aggressiveness, stoicism and sexuality - is almost universal, and deeply ingrained in the consciousness of men who otherwise have little in common.