A man's place : masculinity and the middle-class home in Victorian England

Summary: "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 contrasts this with the lives of the late Victorian generation. By the 1870s, men were becoming less enchanted with the pleasures of home. Once the rights of wives were extended by law and society, marriage seemed less attractive, and the bachelor world of clubland flourished as never before. The Victorians declared that to be fully human and fully masculine, men must be active participants in domestic life. In exposing the contradictions in this ideal, they defined the climate for gender politics in the next century."--Jacket.

Record details

ISBN: 9780300123623
ISBN: 9780300077797
ISBN: 0300123620
ISBN: 0300077793
ISBN: 9781299463851
ISBN: 9780585347585
ISBN: 9780300143683
ISBN: 1299463851
ISBN: 0585347581
ISBN: 0300143680
Physical Description: 1 online resource (252 pages)
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Computer data.
Edition: [Paperback edition].
Publisher: New Haven, Connecticut ; London : Yale University Press, 2007.
Copyright: �1999

Content descriptions

General Note:	"With a new preface"--Cover image. CatMonthString:june.23 Multi-User. Originally published: 1999.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	1. The middle-class household -- 2. The ideal of domesticity -- 3. Husband and wife -- 4. Father and child -- 5. Boys into men -- 6. Convivial pleasures and public duties -- 7. The decline of deference -- 8. The flight from domesticity -- Conclusion.
Type of Computer File or Data Note:	Text (HTML), electronic book.
System Details Note:	Mode of access: Internet.
Terms Governing Use and Reproduction Note:	Access requires VIU IP addresses and is restricted to VIU students, faculty and staff. Access restricted by subscription.
Language Note:	English.
Issuing Body Note:	Made available online by JSTOR.
Source of Description Note:	Print version record.