| Description |
xiii, 258 pages ; 22 cm |
| Summary |
What does it mean to "be a man" in different cultures around the world? 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. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-248) and index. |
| Subject |
Masculinity -- Cross-cultural studies.
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Machismo -- Cross-cultural studies.
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Men -- Psychology -- Cross-cultural studies.
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| ISBN |
0300046464 (alkaline paper) |
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