The History of Men: Essays on the History of American and British Masculinities

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Contents Preface ix Acknowledgments xiii Introduction 1 Invisible Masculinity 3 American Masculinities 2 Born to Run: Fantasies of Male Escape from Rip Van Winkle to Robert Bly 19 3 Consuming Manhood: The Feminization of American Culture and the Recreation of the Male Body, 1832–1920 37 4 Baseball and the Reconstitution of American Masculinity, 1880–1920 61 5 Men’s Responses to Feminism at the Turn of the Century 73 6 The Cult of Masculinity: American Social Character and the Legacy of the Cowboy 91 7 From “Conscience and Common Sense” to “Feminism for Men”: Pro-Feminist Men’s Rhetoric of Support for Women’s Equality 105 British Masculinities 8 From Lord and Master to Cuckold and Fop: Masculinity in 17th-Century England 125 vii MUNDUS FOPPENSIS AND THE LEVELLERS 143 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. Wilson 191 LOVE LETTERS BETWEEN A CERTAIN LATE NOBLEMAN AND THE FAMOUS MR. WILSON . . . 197 Notes 231 References 241 Index 253 viii Contents ...