| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 289 pages) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-279) and index. |
| Summary |
This is the first comprehensive study of manliness, a quality both bad and good, mostly male, often intolerant, irrational, and ambitious. Our "gender-neutral society" does not like it but cannot get rid of it. Drawing from science, literature, and philosophy, Mansfield examines the layers of manliness, from vulgar aggression, to assertive manliness, to manliness as virtue, and to philosophical manliness. He shows that manliness seeks and welcomes drama, prefers times of war, conflict, and risk, and brings change or restores order at crucial moments. After a wide-ranging tour from stereotypes to Hemingway and Achilles, to Nietzsche, to feminism, and to Plato, the author returns to today's problem of "unemployed manliness." Formulating a reasoned defense of a quality hardly obedient to reason, he urges men, and especially women, to understand and accept manliness, and to give it honest and honorable employment.--From publisher description. |
| Contents |
The gender-neutral society -- Manliness as stereotype -- Manly assertion -- Manly nihilism -- Womanly nihilism -- The manly liberal -- Manly virtue -- Conclusion: Unemployed manliness. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Subject |
Masculinity -- Philosophy.
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Masculinity -- Political aspects.
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Sex role.
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Assertiveness (Psychology)
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Nature and nurture.
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Feminism.
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Manliness.
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Masculinity.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Gender Studies.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
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Assertiveness (Psychology) (OCoLC)fst00819028
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Feminism. (OCoLC)fst00922671
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Masculinity -- Philosophy.
(OCoLC)fst01011030
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Masculinity -- Political aspects.
(OCoLC)fst01011031
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Nature and nurture. (OCoLC)fst01034619
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Sex role. (OCoLC)fst01114598
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Mannelijkheid.
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Assertiviteit.
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Erfelijkheid en omgeving.
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| Indexed Term |
Manliness |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Mansfield, Harvey Claflin, 1932- Manliness. New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2006 0300106645 9780300106640 (DLC) 2005023687 (OCoLC)61309282 |
| ISBN |
9780300129939 (electronic bk.) |
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0300129939 (electronic bk.) |
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