Secret ritual and manhood in Victorian America / Mark C. Carnes.
Material type: TextPublisher: New Haven : Yale University Press [1989]Description: x, 226 pages ; 25 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0300044240 (alk. paper)
- 366/.0973/09034 20
- HS204 .C37 1989
Item type | Home library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Books | Zeller Library | AN.Car (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | B00369 |
Includes bibliographic references (p. [171]-218) and index.
1 Masks. 2 Words. 3 Darkness. 4 Fathers. 5 Secrets
'...Using insights gleaned from gender studies, history, anthropology, religion, and psychology, Carnes explains how paternal rituals functioned as a male religious counterculture in unconscious opposition to an increasingly liberal and feminized Protestantism. Fraternalism also addressed anxieties Victorian middle-class boys carried into adulthood over how to make the psychological transition from maternal nurture to the aggressive and competitive domain of adult men....'
Hardcover.
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