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OverviewThere is growing interest in the history of masculinity and male culture, including violence, as an integral part of a proper understanding of gender. In almost every historical setting, masculinity and violence are closely linked; certainly violent crime has been overwhelmingly a male enterprise. But violence is not always criminal: in many cultural contexts violence is linked instead to honour and encoded in rituals. We possess only an imperfect understanding of the ways in which aggressive behaviour, or the abstention from aggressive behaviour, contributes to the construction of masculinity and male honour. In this text eight scholars explore the interrelationship of masculinity, honour and the body. The essays focus on the United States and Western Europe from the 17th to the 20th centuries. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Pieter SpierenburgPublisher: Ohio State University Press Imprint: Ohio State University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.395kg ISBN: 9780814207536ISBN 10: 0814207537 Pages: 304 Publication Date: 01 April 1998 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Awaiting stock The supplier is currently out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out for you. Table of ContentsReviewsAuthor InformationPieter Spierenburg is professor of history at Erasmus University and the author of The Spectacle of Suffering: Executions and the Evolution of Repression, The Broken Spell: A Cultural and Anthropological History of Preindustrial Europe, and The Prison Experience: Disciplinary Institutions and Their Inmates in Early Modern Europe. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |