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Men in reserve provides the first nationwide study of the reserved occupations, bringing together a wide range of sources including new oral histories, autobiographies, archive, visual and film materials. -- .

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From the Homeboy to the Latin Lover, America cherishes a host of images about Latino men, yet all are based on the belief in macho men, virile and brash, full of violence and testosterone. Featuring works by some of today's best-known as well as emerging Latino writers, this provocative collection of 15 original essays defines the culture of "machismo". Photos.

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There is even less of these types of materials published about men at midlife involved in activities structured in a mythopoetic perspective or about men actively involved in mythopoetic men's work.

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Charts middle-class America's move towards an ethos of conspicuous consumption and sexual license during the fifties and sixties. This book looks at the interconnected changes that took place for American youth culture and masculinity as consumption and leisure established themselves as the dominant features of middle-class life.

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Charts middle-class America's move towards an ethos of conspicuous consumption and sexual license during the fifties and sixties. This book looks at the interconnected changes that took place for American youth culture and masculinity as consumption and leisure established themselves as the dominant features of middle-class life.

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In this study, Kenneth MacKinnon suggests that ultimately masculinity is no straightforward actuality. Instead, several aspects of masculinity are ideals rather than social realities. These ideals might be best understood as forming a near-impossible version of masculinity to which males in society are encouraged to aspire if they want to be real men'.

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This is a study of change and continuity in the iconographics of art and the representations of artists during the sixteenth century in Western European traditions, especially Italy and the Netherlands. -- .

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States that White males matter very much to discussions of race, ethnicity, and gender in the US due to their numbers and the influence they wield. This book explores the heterogeneity of white male America, taking into account such factors as age, ethnicity, ideology, social class, regional background, occupational status, and sexual orientation.

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The author explores the heterogeneity of white male America, taking account of age, ethnicity, ideology, social class, regional background, occupation, and sexual preference. This timely work draws on a broad range of sources, including extensive field research and hundreds of interviews.

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Attitudes of nineteenth-century men toward women and heterosexuality are revealed as a web of sexual anxieties, repression, and sublimation that fostered the conviction that manliness could best be achieved through independence from women.

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A practical guide to male health issues, presented in an accessible format, provides coverage of specific conditions and outlines a four- part program for health maintenance that involves diet, exercise, supplements, and behavior modification. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.

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Karl Bednarik states that the majority of men suffer from central disturbance in their masculine life in modern industrial society. He shows that prevailing conditions are introducing radical changes in masculine behavior and that the emasculation of contemporary man is due to the increasing overorganization of modern society.

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Australia's leading men's issues expert looks at experiences of masculinity at different ages, in different social groups and in the context of globalisation.

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The description for this book, The Poetics of Manhood: Contest and Identity in a Cretan Mountain Village, will be forthcoming.

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Journalist Phil Barker unpacks the myth of the 'Man Box' and Australian masculinity.

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Warriors and Wildmen is a book about men and masculinity. Contemporary studies of sex and gender have come primarily from the perspective of women's studies. This book will be of interest to anyone involved in men's studies, gender issues, and feminism.

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This is an important book for men and women, aiming to bring us closer to understanding the experiences of men from birth to death, covering a lifetime of emotion, physicality and desire. It brings together a wide range of research and personal interviews with boys and men, moving past the assumptions and stereotypes.

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Being black and male is a serious business, but its absurd contradictions are often too funny for words. This book leads readers on a no-holds-barred tour of the author's masculine development, acknowledging some deep but often hilarious truths about black men.

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American society has become anti-male. Men are sensing the backlash and are consciously and unconsciously going on strike. This book looks at the topic from the viewpoint of men: Why should they participate in a system that seems to be increasingly stacked against them

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Frank, witty and long overdue, this is the book men everywhere have been waiting for.

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Based on her bestselling range of greetings cards, Cath Tate bring you her unique take on the subject of men, with vintage illustrations accompanied by witty and insightful text.