The Trials of Masculinity: Policing Sexual Boundaries, 1870-1930

Author/Contributor(s):	McLaren, Angus
Publisher:	University of Chicago Press
Date:	06/01/1999
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

In this path-breaking history of manhood and masculinity, Angus McLaren examines how nineteenth- and twentieth-century western society created what we now take to be the traditional model of the heterosexual male.

Inherently interesting. . . . Exhibitionism, pornography, and deception all have their place here.--Library Journal

An appealing wealth of evidence of what trials can reveal about the boundaries of men's roles around the turn of the century.--Kirkus Reviews

It is difficult to imagine a better guide to the most notorious scandals of our great-grandparents' day.--Graham Rosenstock, Lambda Book Report