Manly Traditions

Manly Traditions
Author: Simon J. Bronner
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 417
Release: 2005
Genre: Masculinity
ISBN: 0253346134

* An insightful look at what it means to be a man in America

Explaining Traditions

Explaining Traditions
Author: Simon Bronner
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Total Pages: 546
Release: 2011-08-26
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0813134072

Why do humans hold onto traditions? Many pundits predicted that modernization and the rise of a mass culture would displace traditions, especially in America, but cultural practices still bear out the importance of rituals and customs in the development of identity, heritage, and community. In Explaining Traditions: Folk Behavior in Modern Culture, Simon J. Bronner discusses the underlying reasons for the continuing significance of traditions, delving into their social and psychological roles in everyday life, from old-time crafts to folk creativity on the Internet. Challenging prevailing notions of tradition as a relic of the past, Explaining Traditions provides deep insight into the nuances and purposes of living traditions in relation to modernity. Bronner’s work forces readers to examine their own traditions and imparts a better understanding of raging controversies over the sustainability of traditions in the modern world.

The Myth of Manliness in Irish National Culture, 1880-1922

The Myth of Manliness in Irish National Culture, 1880-1922
Author: Joseph Valente
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2010-10-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0252090322

This study aims to supply the first contextually precise account of the male gender anxieties and ambivalences haunting the culture of Irish nationalism in the period between the Act of Union and the founding of the Irish Free State. To this end, Joseph Valente focuses upon the Victorian ethos of manliness or manhood, the specific moral and political logic of which proved crucial to both the translation of British rule into British hegemony and the expression of Irish rebellion as Irish psychomachia. The influential operation of this ideological construct is traced through a wide variety of contexts, including the career of Ireland's dominant Parliamentary leader, Charles Stewart Parnell; the institutions of Irish Revivalism--cultural, educational, journalistic, and literary; the writings of both canonical authors (Yeats, Synge, Gregory, and Joyce) and subcanonical authors (James Stephens, Patrick Pearse, Lennox Robinson); and major political movements of the time, including suffragism, Sinn Fein, Na Fianna E Éireann, and the Volunteers. The construct of manliness remains very much alive today, underpinning the neo-imperialist marriage of ruthless aggression and the sanctities of duty, honor, and sacrifice. Mapping its earlier colonial and postcolonial formations can help us to understand its continuing geopolitical appeal and danger.

Mansfield's Book of Manly Men

Mansfield's Book of Manly Men
Author: Stephen Mansfield
Publisher: HarperChristian + ORM
Total Pages: 302
Release: 2013-11-26
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1595553746

Witty, compelling, and shrewd, Mansfield’s Book of Manly Men is about resurrecting your inborn, timeless, essential, masculine self. The Western world is in a crisis of discarded honor, dubious integrity, and faux manliness. It is time to recover what we have lost. Stephen Mansfield shows us the way. Working with timeless maxims and stirring examples of manhood from ages past, Mansfield issues a trumpet call of manliness fit for our times. In Mansfield’s Book of Manly Men, you’ll see that: This book is about doing. It is about action. It is about knowing the deeds that comprise manhood and doing those deeds. Habits have to be formed, and actions have to be aligned with the grace received. “My goal in this book is simple,” Mansfield says. “I want to identify what a genuine man does?the virtues, the habits, the disciplines, the duties, the actions of true manhood?and then call men to do it.”

The Manly Masquerade

The Manly Masquerade
Author: Valeria Finucci
Publisher: Duke University Press
Total Pages: 332
Release: 2003-03-19
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780822330653

DIVAnalyzes how the body was constructed and politicized in early modern Italy by exploring literary discourses of the period - plays, novellas, travel journals, poems, etc./div

The Fate of Boys and the War on Traditional Masculinity

The Fate of Boys and the War on Traditional Masculinity
Author: Conrad Riker
Publisher: Conrad Riker
Total Pages: 226
Release: 101-01-01
Genre: Humor
ISBN:

Are you tired of the never-ending debates about gender and masculinity? Do you worry about the effect these discussions are having on young boys and their futures? Discover practical strategies to help boys navigate the complex world of gender roles and expectations. Learn how to promote healthy masculinity and self-worth in a society that often undermines traditional male values. How can you protect your son from the dangers of critical gender theory and promote healthy masculinity? What role do mothers play in raising strong boys, and how can fathers support them? Are boys being unfairly targeted in the fight for gender equality? What you'll get from reading this book: 1. Understand the effects of progressive ideologies on boys and their families, and how they contribute to the rise of sudden onset gender dysphoria in girls. 2. Learn about the importance of fathers in raising strong, independent men, and the unique role that men can play in dismantling the "woke" narrative. 3. Expose the dangerous side effects of hormone therapy for transgender individuals, and the potential long-term consequences for those who undergo the treatment. 4. Gain insights into the evolutionary psychology of attraction, and how understanding these principles can help you navigate relationships and sexuality. 5. Uncover the political correctness culture and its effects on free speech, open dialogue, and democratic discourse, and how to stand up against it. 6. Discover the impact of radical feminism on society, relationships, and the nuclear family, and how to counteract its negative effects. 7. Examine the rise of transgender identity as a social norm, and the consequences for individuals, families, and society when biological sex is ignored or downplayed. If you want to protect and support boys in their journey to becoming strong, independent men who are ready to face the challenges of a "woke" world, then buy this book today!

The History of Men

The History of Men
Author: Michael S. Kimmel
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2012-02-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0791483827

In this collection, one of the world's leading scholars in the field of masculinity studies explores the historical construction of American and British masculinities. Tracing the emergence of American and British masculinities, the forms they have taken, and their development over time, Michael S. Kimmel analyzes the various ways that the ideology of masculinity—the cultural meaning of manhood—has been shaped by the course of historical events, and, in turn, how ideas about masculinity have also served to shape those historical events. He also considers newly emerging voices of previously marginalized groups such as women, the working class, people of color, gay men, and lesbians to explore the marginalized and de-centered notions of masculinity and the political processes and dynamics that have enabled this marginalization to occur.

Campus Traditions

Campus Traditions
Author: Simon J. Bronner
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Total Pages: 497
Release: 2012-09-15
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1617036161

How American campus life shapes students, and how students shape campus lore

Willa Cather's Sexual Aesthetics and the Male Homosexual Literary Tradition

Willa Cather's Sexual Aesthetics and the Male Homosexual Literary Tradition
Author: John P. Anders
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Total Pages: 216
Release: 1999-01-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780803259409

In this first full-length study of male homosexuality in Cather's short stories and novels, John P. Anders examines patterns of male friendship ranging on a continuum from the social to the sexual. He reveals how Cather's work assumes an unexpected depth and complexity by drawing on both the familiar tradition of friendship literature inspired by classical and Christian texts and a homosexual legacy that is part of, yet distinct from, established literary traditions. ø Anders argues that Cather's artistic achievement is distinguished by her sexual aesthetics, an elusive literary style inextricably associated with homosexuality. His analysis demonstrates how a homosexual ethos and eros helped Cather develop a sensitivity to human variation and a style to accommodate it and thus became the objective correlative of her art, dramatizing the diversity of human nature as it deepens the mystery of her work.

The Routledge Companion to Masculinity in American Literature and Culture

The Routledge Companion to Masculinity in American Literature and Culture
Author: Lydia R. Cooper
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 411
Release: 2021-12-26
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1000504956

Recently, the U.S. has seen a rise in misogynistic and race-based violence perpetrated by men expressing a sense of grievance, from "incels" to alt-right activists. Grounding sociological, historical, political, and economic analyses of masculinity through the lens of cultural narratives in many forms and expressions, The Routledge Companion to Masculinity in American Literature and Culture suggests that how we examine the stories that shape us in turn shapes our understanding of our current reality and gives us language for imagining better futures. Masculinity is more than a description of traits associated with particular performances of gender. It is more than a study of gender and social power. It is an examination of the ways in which gender affects our capacity to engage ethically with each other in complex human societies. This volume offers essays from a range of established, global experts in American masculinity as well as new and upcoming scholars in order to explore not just what masculinity once meant, has come to mean, and may mean in the future in the U.S.; it also articulates what is at stake with our conceptions of masculinity.