- Hardcover: 316 pages
- Publisher: University of Chicago Press; 2nd edition (5 Jun 1997)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0226500675
- ISBN-13: 978-0226500676
- Product Dimensions: 2.4 x 1.6 x 0.2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
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In this history of manhood and masculinity, the author argues that modern formulations of masculinity, despite any sense of naturalness and constancy, are in fact, idealized cultural products of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He examines the process of social construction whereby this traditionalized model of the heterosexual male was selected, delineated, and maintained. The author focuses attention on two domains essential to the legitimation of Western cultural constructs - medicine and the law. Through court reports and newspaper accounts, McLaren shows how everyday people, not just the juridical elite, helped to define through their testimony an ideal of manhood and proper masculine behaviour. He then considers the medical world: psychiatrists and sexologists emerged as arbiters of sexual and gender differences, devising new categories of deficient masculinity - homosexuals, sadists, exhibitionists, and transvestites. Forming such deviant types required the medical community, he argues, to further demarcate a particular form of preferred masculinity.
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This book is an academic treatise, replete with references to research and to academic studies and documentation. It is fascinating, but primarily focused on sexual behavior and sexual deviance as well as violence and their treatment by the courts and by the medical profession during the years identified. I believe it may be of interest to those with an interest in the psychosocial/historical aspects of sexuality and men.
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Academic studies of sexual behavior of men.
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This book is an academic treatise, replete with references to research and to academic studies and documentation. It is fascinating, but primarily focused on sexual behavior and sexual deviance as well as violence and their treatment by the courts and by the medical profession during the years identified. I believe it may be of interest to those with an interest in the psychosocial/historical aspects of sexuality and men.
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