History of Men

Michael S. Kimmel is Professor of Sociology at Stony Brook University, State University of New York. He has written and edited many books, including The Gender of Desire: Essays on Male Sexuality, also published by SUNY Press, and The Gendered Society, Second Edition. He is also the editor of Men and Masculinities, a leading journal in the field.

• Preface AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1 Invisible Masculinity American Masculinities 2 Born to Run: Fantasies of Male Escape from Rip Van Winkle to Robert Bly3 Consuming Manhood: The Feminization of American Culture and the Recreation of the Male Body, 1832–19204 Baseball and the Reconstitution of American Masculinity, 1880–19205 Men’s Responses to Feminism at the Turn of the Century6 The Cult of Masculinity: American Social Character and the Legacy of the Cowboy7 From "Conscience and Common Sense" to "Feminism for Men": Pro-Feminist Men’s Rhetoric of Support for Women’s Equality British Masculinities 8 From Lord and Master to Cuckold and Fop: Masculinity in 17th-Century England Mundus Foppensis and The Levellers 9 "Greedy Kisses" and "Melting Extasy": Notes on the Homosexual World of Early 18th-Century England as Found in Love Letters Between a certain late Nobleman and the famous Mr. WilsonLove Letters Between a certain late Nobleman and the famous Mr. Wilson...NotesReferencesIndex