Manhood in the Making: Cultural Concepts of Masculinity

What does it mean to "be a man" in different cultures around the world? Anthropologist David D. Gilmore explores this question in "a provocative, rewarding cross-cultural survey." (Publishers Weekly)

In the first cross-cultural study of manhood as an achieved status, anthropologist David D. Gilmore finds that a culturally sanctioned stress on manliness--on toughness and aggressiveness, stoicism and sexuality--is almost universal, deeply ingrained in the consciousness of hunters and fishermen, workers and warriors, poets and peasants who have little else in common.

Author: David D. Gilmore
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 07/24/1991
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.72lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.39w x 0.86d
ISBN: 9780300050769
Revised Edition