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Showing 1 to 20 of 29 for “"manliness"”.
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The Cult of Manliness in English Literature: A Victorian Controversy, 1857-1880
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Becoming a man: the prescriptions of manhood and manliness in early modern England
… the prescriptions and perceptions of manhood and manliness in England during the period c.1580-c.1700. It traces shifts in emphasis of the defining characteristics of manhood across the long-seventeenth century. Moreover, the centrality of both social status and the life cycle to the edicts of …
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“I think myself as good as anybody” : nationalism, manliness, space and identity in Boswell’s London Journal
James Boswell (1740-1795), biographer of Samuel Johnson and lifelong diarist, provided one of the most detailed descriptions of eighteenth-century London life in his London Journal: 1762-1763. In it, Boswell chronicled his self-conscious attempts to refashion himself from the uncultivated Scottish …
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A Department of the Modern University: Discipline, Manliness, and Football in American Intellectual Culture, 1869--1929
… future of football and its meanings for modern ""manliness"" in Progressive Era debates about athletic reform. These discussions led to reforms such as the creation of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). At the same time, an increasingly fragmented intellectual culture, fostered …
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Uneven Modernities, Uneven Masculinities: Manliness and the Galician Hinterland in the Novels of Emilia Pardo Bazán (1882-1896)
… of the post-Enlightenment, Western, model of manliness, a primarily urban, bourgeois phenomenon, which privileged rational intellect and individual hard work. I then compare the pace and extent of modernization in Spain and England to show how Spain lacked the material conditions that would …
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Gender and Conservation: A Comparative Study of the Bison and Wild Horse Conservation Movements
… bison hunting became identified with American manliness, which provided an opportunity for men like Theodore Roosevelt to establish and develop their masculinity through bison hunting narratives. When bison populations plummeted in the late nineteenth century, these men turned conservationists, …
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Three Paths To Religious Integration In Ernest Hemingway’s War Fiction
… by enacting a ritual, or by embodying Christian manliness. I base my dissertation on relevant phenomenological theories but also considers broader structural-functional theories, and I form the approach on structuralism in that I look at both single works and at the war fiction as a whole as well …
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Male sexuality and masculinity: Implications for STIs/HIV and sexual health interventions in Bangladesh
… men think it means to be a man. dimensions of manliness and manhood, and male influences in the construction of male/female relationships. Significant meanings men attribute to sexual acts, pleasure, pain,. risk and safety in multiple social realities, particularly in the era of HIV/AIDS, were …
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“Kill the Indian, Save the Man”: Manhood at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, 1879-1918
… reflected the school’s focus on civilised manliness, which included the ideals of self-sufficiency, individualism, and Christian morality. This model was progressively displaced by an athletic version, which promoted masculinity in the form of physical power and victory. The dissertation …
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The New Man: Evolving Masculinity in F. Scott Fitzgerald's <em>This Side of Paradise</em>, "Winter Dreams," and "The Swimmers"
… of industrial, materialistic America, manliness and definitions of manhood were now measured by riches, inherited or acquired through business activities; through athleticism that stressed such masculine attributes as physical endurance, integrity, self-control, and teamwork. Finally, …
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Marked Men: Sport and Masculinity in Victorian Popular Culture, 1866-1904
… ideology, specifically that related to ideas of manliness. Far from simply celebrating the modern experience of sport as one that works to produce manly men, coverage in the Victorian press of sporting events such as the 1869 Oxford-Cambridge Boat Race, spectacular melodramas by Dion Boucicault, …
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Masculinity and The Plebeian Honour Fight: Dispute Resolution in Georgian England
… shown to be aspired to in plebeian models of manliness, distinguished the violence from that used in intentional murder, robbery, or by mob rioters. The plebeian honour fight fulfilled an important social role and as such this research argues that its origins lie in plebeian culture. It does …
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Made in Machismo: Discovering Gender Patterns in Migration Process
… male exhibits a strong or exaggerated sense of manliness. This project aims to examine the migration experience through an intersectional lens of gender that highlights the stringency that machismo culture and the migration process have on gender expression.
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‘Invaded by Daughters of Eve’: Women Playing American Football, 1890-1960
… was a means for men to demonstrate their manliness and masculinity. The thesis is primarily a media study which uses an extensive range of newspaper reports to build a picture of the many ways in which women accessed the sport and the response that the media had to their involvement. …
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Masculinities in the Motherland: Gender and Authority in the Soviet Union During the Cold War, 1945--1968
… and resisting a variety of cultural ideas about manliness shaped Soviet militarism and ideology during the Cold War. This dissertation re-evaluates the traditional and interrelated Cold War institutions of the military, scientific research, and the space program in cultural and gender terms in …
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WOMEN WRITERS AND THE GENEALOGY OF THE GENTLEMAN: MASCULINITY, AUTHORITY, AND MALE CHARACTERS IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY ENGLISH NOVELS BY WOMEN
… assumptions about Anglophone masculinity—that manliness is universal, innate, and rational, rather than particular, contextual, and performative. My approach offers to this conversation a crucial perspective on how women played a vital role in creating dominant standards of masculinity, and …
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Strange Vicissitudes: The Memory and Uses of Indian Captivity in the Progressive Era
… individualism, bravery, ingenuity, enthusiasm, "manliness," patriotism, self-reliance and concern for others. Local boosters and cultural commentators celebrated Indian captivity because they lamented that the country was forgetting what they saw as pioneer bravery, and because they followed the …
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