A man's place : masculinity and the middle-class home in Victorian England / John Tosh.
A man's place : masculinity and the middle-class home in Victorian England / John Tosh.
A man's place : masculinity and the middle-class home in Victorian England / John Tosh.
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New Haven, Conn. ; London : Yale University Press, c1999.
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N305.310942/1
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English
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Physical content
xii, 252 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents
Introduction: Masculinity and Domesticity -- Pt. 1. Preconditions. 1. The Middle-Class Household. 2. The Ideal of Domesticity -- Pt. 2. The Climax of Domesticity, c. 1830-1880. 3. Husband and Wife. 4. Father and Child. 5. Boys into Men. 6. Convivial Pleasures and Public Duties -- Pt. 3. Domesticity...
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Publisher
New Haven, Conn. ; London : Yale University Press, c1999.
Place of Publication
Connecticut
Date Published
c1999.
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John Tosh shows how profoundly men's lives were conditioned by the Victorian ideal, and how they negotiated its many contradictions. Tosh begins by looking at the experience of boyhood, married life, sex and fatherhood in the early decades of the nineteenth century - illustrated by case-studies representing a variety of backgrounds - and then contr...
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A man's place : masculinity and the middle-class home in Victorian England / John Tosh.
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Includes bibliographical references ( p. 229-243) and index.
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c1999.
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N305.310942/1
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74Vvr560EwqA
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0300077793 :
9780300077797
0300077793
9780300077797 :
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305.31094209034
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991011496229702626
