Manhood on the Line : Working-Class Masculinities in the American Heartland, ...

by Stephen Meyer

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Manhood on the Line : Working-Class Masculinities in the American Heartland, Hardcover by Meyer, Stephen, ISBN 0252040058, ISBN-13 9780252040054, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US Stephen Meyer charts the complex vagaries of men reinventing manhood in twentieth century America. Their ideas of masculinity destroyed by principles of mass production, workers created a white-dominated culture that defended its turf against other racial groups and revived a crude, hypersexualized treatment of women that went far beyond the shop floor. At the same time, they recast unionization battles as manly struggles against a system killing their very selves. Drawing on a wealth of archival material, Meyer recreates a social milieu in stunning detail--the mean labor and stolen pleasures, the battles on the street and in the soul, and a masculinity that expressed itself in violence and sexism but also as a wellspring of the fortitude necessary to maintain one's dignity while doing hard work in hard world.

• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Year: 2016
• ISBN: 9780252040054
• Condition: Fine

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